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Article #271Re: UPS Digital Clipboards
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:41
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:41
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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 FIDO: 1:105/51 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!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 Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.120.6@pica.army.mil> Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon. Sender: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil Approved: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil X-Submissions-To: comp-privacy@pica.army.mil X-Administrivia-To: comp-privacy-request@pica.army.mil X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 120, Message 6 of 8 Lines: 22