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#226614 - 11/07/2004 18:48 Ridiculous junk mail
msaeger carpal tunnel Registered: 23/09/2000 Posts: 3608 Loc: Minnetonka, MN	Check out the insane junk mail I got for some new condo development. The place is called Cloud9 some of the features inculded with each unit are: WfFi environment Flatscreen TV Wireless phone system They must be trying to appeal to the techno geek kind of people. This is the first time I have ever seen an anti-static bag used for junk mail Attachments 225489-P1010014.JPG (101 downloads) Edited by msaeger (11/07/2004 18:53) _________________________ Matt
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#226615 - 11/07/2004 21:32 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: msaeger]
lectric pooh-bah Registered: 20/01/2002 Posts: 2085 Loc: New Orleans, LA	Wow. I had no idea you could just put stamps on and mail a ziplock like that. Bizarre.
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#226616 - 12/07/2004 10:14 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: lectric]
webroach old hand Registered: 23/07/2003 Posts: 869 Loc: Colorado	Actually, the US Post Office will deliver damn near anything if you pay the postage.... Postal Experiments _________________________ Dave
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#226617 - 12/07/2004 10:17 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: lectric]
peter carpal tunnel Registered: 13/07/2000 Posts: 4180 Loc: Cambridge, England	Quote: Wow. I had no idea you could just put stamps on and mail a ziplock like that. Bizarre. When I was a student a friend stuck a stamp on a cup-a-soup sachet and posted it to me. Not sure you could do that nowadays... Peter
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#226618 - 12/07/2004 10:48 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: peter]
mtempsch pooh-bah Registered: 02/06/2000 Posts: 1996 Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden	Quote: Not sure you could do that nowadays... It'd probably trigger a terrorism alert... In my student days we used to have lots of weird stuff appear through the mail; various pieces of old circuit boards, 2 meter long strip of sandpaper etc. with messages written on them. What impressed me most was the addressing (or lack of) that could be used and the stuff still arrive. "dBaseIII, Chalmers" isn't really much to go on... (D was the designation for the "line" I studied, Comp Sci & Eng or "Datorteknik" in Swedish and the dBase was our area for relaxing, cooking lunch etc. III for it being the third one, as we'd been forced to move twice) That address meant that both the mail service in the originating country, as well as here in Sweden spent some effort to locate the recipient... In, IIRC, Italy, they must have checked where/what Chalmers is and decided to toss it in the 'Sweden' bag, and once in Sweden I suspect that the department of the mail service that investigates odd mails might already have had notes on us - or they sent it to some generic Chalmers address that then internally forwarded it to us... _________________________ /Michael
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#226619 - 12/07/2004 10:49 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: peter]
CrackersMcCheese pooh-bah Registered: 14/01/2002 Posts: 2489	I don't see why not - its packaged up well enough. Although I may have to conduct my own research
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#226620 - 12/07/2004 12:54 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
g_attrill old hand Registered: 14/04/2002 Posts: 1172 Loc: Hants, UK	Quote: I don't see why not - its packaged up well enough. Although I may have to conduct my own research Too late: http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html But as you're in the UK I would be interested to see how the Royal Mail fares. Considering they have difficulty getting perfectly addressed letters delivered on time (or at all in many cases) my guess is "badly". I recently bought a tub of "instant snow" polymer (a white powder) and joked to a friend that I would put some in an evelope and send it to him. It's pretty cool stuff actually - you put a teaspoon of powder in a glass, add some water and the glass overflows with "snow". Gareth
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#226621 - 12/07/2004 13:02 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: g_attrill]
frog51 pooh-bah Registered: 09/08/2000 Posts: 2091 Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland	How would the Royal Mail respond to that? I would imagine not too well _________________________ Rory MkIIa, blue lit buttons, memory upgrade, 1Tb in Subaru Forester STi MkII, 240Gb in Mark Lord dock MkII, 80Gb SSD in dock
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#226622 - 12/07/2004 17:50 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: webroach]
gbeer carpal tunnel Registered: 17/12/2000 Posts: 2665 Loc: Manteca, California	I've seen a coconut, still in the husk, that had been mailed from Hawii. Nothing but magic marker and stamps applied. _________________________ Glenn
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#226623 - 12/07/2004 17:55 Re: Ridiculous junk mail [Re: gbeer]
davec old hand Registered: 18/08/2000 Posts: 992 Loc: Georgetown, TX USA	Quote: I've seen a coconut, still in the husk, that had been mailed from Hawii. Nothing but magic marker and stamps applied. I've got one of those!!! I got it about 4 weeks after a cow-orker that sent it got back from Hawaii... I think she called someone back in Hawaii and had them send it after I bitched that I never got a postcard... _________________________ Dave Clark Georgetown, Texas MK2A 42Gb - AnoFace - Smoke Lens - Dead Tuner - Sirius Radio on AUX
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