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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