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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!pasadena-dc.bofa.com!robertson
  2. From: robertson@pasadena-dc.bofa.com
  3. Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
  4. Subject: Re: postal insults
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov20.145541.20@pasadena-dc.bofa.com>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 14:55:40 PDT
  7. References: <00963D14.14806F00@vms.csd.mu.edu>
  8. Organization: Bank America Systems Engineering, Pasadena, CA
  9. Lines: 22
  10.  
  11. In article <00963D14.14806F00@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 5g72wheelerj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
  12. > I continue to wonder why pre-printed envelopes (such as those for bills, etc.)
  13. > always contain the following square in the upper right corner:
  14. >                                  ______________________
  15. >                                 |                      |
  16. >                                 |   Place Stamp Here   |
  17. >                                 |                      |
  18. >                                 |      Postal Service  |
  19. >                                 |    Will Not Deliver  |
  20. >                                 |     Mail Without     | 
  21. >                                 |   Proper Postage     |
  22. >                                 |                      |
  23. >                                 |______________________|
  24. > 
  25.  
  26. I reply to this with the feeling that I've just taken the bait, but here goes:
  27.  
  28. Believe it or not, the Post Office really used to deliver mail without postage.
  29. The recipient would have to pay the postage due to get the letter.
  30.  
  31. A friend of mine had no qualms about mailing her utility bills without stamps,
  32. under the popular sentiment that the bigger companies could eat the expense.
  33.