Pre-nonsense

Pre-selected? How can you be pre-selected? Once you've been selected, you're selected, aren't you?

I received a piece of mail yesterday that said I was 'pre-selected' for whatever. But they sent me the letter; does that or does that not mean that I have in fact been selected? How else would I get the invitation? I do not understand it at all.

Yet another thing for the useless terms pile. It's becoming quite a pile of, quite a pile of, uh, stuff.