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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:02:01 GMT
- From: John De Armond <jgd@dixie.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: UPS Digital Clipboards
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.119.5@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 119, Message 5 of 7
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- allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren) writes:
-
- >I usually get a brick, wrap it in brown paper, and glue the envelope I get
- >from other groups on top of the brick, writing on the envelope 'Delivery
- >Refused'. Since the sending company must then pay the extra postage on the
- >brick, I seldom get a followup from a company, although one company was stupid
- >enough to send me two more notices, so on the third (total) notice from them,
- >I wrapped up about four bricks in a small box and glued the envelope on the
- >top of this box. I never got another notice from this company!
-
- Your recipient never sees the brick. The PO simply discards any BRM
- that is obviously inappropriate. There is also a cap on charges
- acrued to any single piece of mail, about 85 cents as I recall. If
- you want to return BRM, stick about 4 ounces of paper in it and mail
- away.
-
- The reason you didn't get a second solicitation from that company is
- direct mail is EXPENSIVE. Postage on a typical 4 ounce bulk mail
- piece is about twenty cents. A BRM (business reply mail) piece is
- at a minimum 38 cents for the postcard. More for added weight.
- Then figure in the cost of printing and packaging the promotionals.
- The advertiser does NOT want to mail to anyone who is not a candidate
- to reply.
-
- John
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