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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!fed!fed.frb.gov!m1tca00
  2. From: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.stupidity
  4. Subject: Re: postal insults
  5. Message-ID: <9286@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV>
  6. Date: 23 Nov 92 17:14:41 GMT
  7. References: <00963D14.14806F00@vms.csd.mu.edu>
  8. Sender: usenet@fed.FRB.GOV
  9. Reply-To: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov (Thomas C. Allard)
  10. Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC
  11. Lines: 38
  12.  
  13. In article <00963D14.14806F00@vms.csd.mu.edu>, 5g72wheelerj@vms.csd.mu.edu writes:
  14. > I continue to wonder why pre-printed envelopes (such as those for bills, etc.)
  15. > always contain the following square in the upper right corner:
  16. >                                  ______________________
  17. >                                 |                      |
  18. >                                 |   Place Stamp Here   |
  19. >                                 |                      |
  20. >                                 |      Postal Service  |
  21. >                                 |    Will Not Deliver  |
  22. >                                 |     Mail Without     | 
  23. >                                 |   Proper Postage     |
  24. >                                 |                      |
  25. >                                 |______________________|
  26. > 
  27. > It is as if they assume everyone to be either a thief or an idiot.
  28.  
  29. The one I see most often is:
  30.  
  31.   Post Office
  32.    will not
  33.  deliver mail
  34.     without
  35.     postage
  36.  
  37. I always place the stamp so it obscures the last two lines.
  38.  
  39. rgds-- TA  (uucp: uunet!fed!m1tca00 | internet: m1tca00@fed.frb.gov)
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