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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Mail order, rip-off, anger ....
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 17:37:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 17:37:48 1985
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> ... I stay the
> heck away from any operation which uses a "Suite" number in their
> mailing address.  That is usually not a suite number, but rather a
> box number at one of those "rent-a-mailbox" operations.  The mail
> order operator can then disappear without a trace *very* easily.

Then you may have difficulty ordering, for example, draft ANSI standards.
Yes, the address for CBEMA (which handles such things for ANSI) contains
a suite number!

"Beware of generalizations, including this one."
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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