Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mhuxj.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!mhuxj!presley From: presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: sorting through jumk mail Message-ID: <1231@mhuxj.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 10:50:55 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxj.1231 Posted: Tue Mar 13 10:50:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Mar-84 07:59:32 EST References: <551@ihuxb.UUCP> <2596@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 11 Last week's *Stamp Collector* newspaper had an article on the way that the USPS helps the junk mailers in the battle between the consumers who don't want to even open the letter and the junk mailers who try to fool us into opening their letters. The gist of it was that the mailers want their letters to look like first class, but don't want to pay the full postage. The USPS' solution? Issue stamps which say "FIRST CLASS", but allow lower rates for presorted, etc. -- Joe Presley (mhuxj!presley, ihnp4!j.presley)