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" Michelle: pranksterism teachin Sunday state capitol. 3pm. Bring credit card applications and junk mail. #*ows*<https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23ows> #*occupyaustin"* <https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23occupyaustin>
<https://twitter.com/#%21/OccupyAustin/status/144587449480388608><https://twitter.com/#%21/OccupyAustin/status/144587449480388608> They're marching tomorrow so don't fault them for being lazy.
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 08:24, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dunno. Hardly anything good comes in the mail nowadays - mostly
> junk mail and bills, which is a great subsidy to advertisers. As far
> as USPS parcel rates are concerned, they are on a par what UPS or
> Fedex charge.
>
> While we are at that - it may help USPS revenue if every person used
> business reply envelopes received in junk mail to send a "business
> reply" to the sender - like stuffing a gutter cleaning offer to AmEx
> business reply envelope, and the Amex pre-approved credit offer to the
> gutter cleaning company, stuffing the menu of a Chinese restaurant to
> the business reply envelope that came with an offer of life insurance
> - you get the drift. AFAIK, USPS charges per piece rate for every
> business reply envelope they deliver, so it would be a nice and fun
> way of making businesses subsidize a public service.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
> wrote:
> >> How they're killing the post office
> >>
> >> http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1061994
> >
> > I was thinking the other day that people really don't get how much of a
> blow
> > this would be to daily life. I've started telling people that whenever
> they
> > look down at their cellphone and see "no bars" that this is what a
> country
> > with only competitive mail delivery will look like: large areas with "no
> > bars" of mail delivery.
> >
> > /jordan
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