Text 4036, 64 rader
Skriven 2013-08-30 00:36:16 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Marketroids
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->  -> OK, so when she runs, screaming, for the exits then my statement 
becomes
->  -> true once more.
-> 
->  SR> The screaming part has happened for years. She however has a 
mortgage
->  SR> to support, so running has to wait. These days in New England you
->  SR> don't leave an existing job.
-> 
-> Nor anywhere. I've never worked for anyone that I don't respect. And
I've 
never
-> been out of work any longer than I wanted to be.
-> 
Around here, places with owners you can respect who also pay decent wages 
are thin on the ground. Or so it seems, anyway.

->  -> Outbound is at "Presorted Standard" (bulk mail) rates. Inbound is at 
1st
->  -> class postage. A minimum of 46c (currently) per piece.
-> 
->  SR> It may be presort, which is less, but every penny counts.
-> 
-> Not inbound. Those pieces are individual.
-> 
In other words, make the bastahds pay! 

->  SR> Alas, you can't just write Return to Sender on the unopened junk; 
the
->  SR> USPS just pitches returned mass mailings.
-> 
-> You can follow my example and stuff it into other envelopes and mail it 
off at
-> no cost to you.

I've done that a few times recently.

-> You can declare it "OBSCENE" and the post office has to stop future 
mailings to
-> you from that sender and notify the sender that you have declared them 
obscene.
-> They are required, by statute, to remove your address from their mailing 
lists.
-> And it's up to each individual to decide what is obscene to them - a 
decision
-> with which the USPS cannot argue ... although they may try to quibble.

(LOL)  Now that's a fine and dirty trick.  I may need to use it on the 
address labels gimme squadron.  
 
->  -> Quite a bit, actually. Sometimes the little victories are the 
sweetest.
-> 
->  SR> I just sent one back with the word NO written across it and "go 
away".
->  SR> I expect to get more junk in a month.
-> 
-> Entropy always increases.

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. 
(Harlan Ellison) Personally I think stupidity has the edge.(me)
 
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