Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Spam is the electronic equivalent of junk mail. An interesting statistic turned up recently, one that would forebode poorly on our electronic future... 90% of all US Mail is Junk mail. That means that 10% of all us mail is mail someone asked for. Further, the USPS is complaining that as a result of the Sept 11 terrorist activities, the ( junk) mail has dropped off considerably. That drop off has meant lower revenues for the post office, necessitating the INCREASE of rates due to the fixed costs not being met..... We get rate hikes because the ( junk) mail is too much and they need to expand facilities, and we get rate hikes because there is not enough mail and then need to support unfulfilled fixed costs. I wish I were a political activist, I would start a cause to make illegal the different classifications of mail, such that the mail I wish to receive the least ( junk mail) would have the same rate as first class mail. You can not run a company like the USPS runs the mail service..... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html