What criteria decides who wins a sweepstakes?

Do they choose winners at random? Or are they biased? Why can't I win a sweepstakes?!?!?!?!?

What criteria decides who wins a sweepstakes?
Sweepstakes may have millions of entries. Your entry may not even make it to the final drawing phase. There was a big scandal a few years ago when postal bags of sweepstakes entries were found discarded. With the sheer number of entries received, part of their elimination process was to exclude all but one postal bag of entries per delivery.





Sweepstakes winners must be chosen on a random basis, else it's not a sweepstakes. However, you must be absolutely certain that you follow all the entry rules or your entry will never make it to the final drawing even it it gets through all the elimination processing.





If the directions say to mail in a #10 envelope, make sure you use a #10 envelope (commonly called legal size). If the directions say "print name", make sure you print - don't type or use cursive script. If you're not using a pre-printed entry form, you have even more directions to follow. An 3x5 index card is not a piece of 3x5 paper, etc., etc.





If you are submitting multiple entries, make sure you stagger them over the lifetime of the sweepstakes- don't mail them all in a bunch for the reasons stated above.





There are people who enter sweepstakes as a hobby (and it is not an inexpensive hobby given the cost of postage these days) and most of them don't win a lot either.

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