NEW YORK -- A ploy to accumulate postal addresses through a postcard contest has become too successful. The contest, which rewards all contests with a postcard if they supply their postal address, may bring an undue burden on the organizer of the event, Colin Allen. He is concerned that the volume of mail he now must send will take away too much of his time.

"Man, that was too easy," Allen said, "I have my address book filled up again, but now I have to actually start writing the damn things. Do they think that I am some kind of writer?"

Allen, who currently works as a journalist for a major insurance firm, began the contest as a way to restore his address book that was lost when his computer�s hard drive malfunctioned. In less than a day, nearly 30 applicants submitted their names. All must now receive a postcard, as the contest rules stipulate.

"Does it look like I have a bunch of monkeys ready to do my bidding?" Colin asked. He plans to write the postcards during his commute, which he admits is plenty long enough for him to produce the postcards.