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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:41:10 GMT
- From: Leonard Erickson <leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: UPS Digital Clipboards
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
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- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 120, Message 6 of 8
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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!
-
- What you describe above *is* annoying the companies it gets done to.
- So annoying that they got it made *illegal* as "misuse of return postage"
- or some such. I don't recall the exact details, but if I were you, I'd
- be expecting to get a visit from a postal inspector some fine day...
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
- CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com
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- (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
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