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Re: Not rain nor snow nor Saturday...
95-98% ineffective. Sounds wasteful to me.
LuJane - Eagle wrote:
> As long as people respond to spam (whether it be e-mail or snail mail) it
> will continue. It gets results. You (and I) may hate it and wish it to stop,
> but I'll lay bets all of us respond to SOMETHING sometime. Statistics show
> that if you do a mailing you should expect about 2-5% (in certain things
> 10%) return on it... that doesn't sound like much but if you are mailing
> 10's of thousands, it gives a good return. I've used it from time to time in
> my business and gotten a good return. I've used telephone solicitation and
> gotten good returns. If it didn't work, businesses wouldn't use it. WE
> govern what is used and what isn't. Even though I dislike the mounds of mail
> and telephone solicitations I get (and I cuss and rant as everyone else)...
> I also contribute to it. It is very difficult to start a business without
> it. You have to get the message out that you are here and doing business and
> it is effective.
>
> I suppose that contributes little to this discussion but it is, after all,
> an observation that WE control what is used and what isn't and if WE (as a
> population) would not respond to these things they would stop... die a
> natural death.
>
> LJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shahab Mesbah <meteor2@moscow.com>
> To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 11:48 AM
> Subject: RE: Not rain nor snow nor Saturday...
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > This is a great point and one that brings me to another issue... why do we
> > have so much mail?! If you are at all like me you throw half of your mail
> > directly in the recycle bin. Just like the "free paper" issue the
> > advertisers are cluttering the system with junk mail. This mail not only
> > wastes paper but also energy and human resources to get to us. When are we
> > going to demand an appropriate level of responsibility for advertising?
> > Whether an unwanted newspaper, an unwanted mail, an unwanted phone call or
> > an unwanted email it is intrusion in my property... why can't we stop
> > this... it should be illegal. We waste so much of resources in this way.
> As
> > evident in today's world we do not have unlimited resources. We know more
> > than the earthlings of a generation ago! We have witnessed the degradation
> > of our ecosystem. We have witnessed the degradation of our society. Why
> > can't we stop the waste? Who pays for it? We do! We pay for the rising
> > energy costs, postal costs, all of them. When a company wastes money... we
> > pay for it in rising cost of goods. When it is all said and done... we
> flip
> > the bill either directly or through our taxes so we should be eliminating
> > these wastes as much as possible. It is to our interest as residents on
> this
> > planet!
> >
> > "Your brother in arms"
> >
> > Shahab...
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Evan & Nancy Holmes [mailto:ncmholmes@moscow.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 9:17 AM
> > To: vision2020@moscow.com
> > Subject: Not rain nor snow nor Saturday...
> >
> > To: The Distinguished Committee For The Advancement Of Immediate Remedy
> >
> > Discontinuing Saturday mail delivery wouldn't eliminate all the costs
> > associated with it - the burden on carriers to deliver proportionately
> more
> > mail on each of the other days may require the shortening of routes and
> > hiring more personnel. Mondays may become especially difficult to handle.
> > Also, nobody has mentioned the benefit of having mail picked up while
> > mail is delivered. This is a great service and if it is no longer done on
> > Saturdays there may be a statistically significant increase in the number
> > of individual trips (usually by auto) made to the Post Office or other
> drop
> > off point...
> >
> > The only way I can figure to really save money on Saturday deliveries is
> to
> > assign the task to some income-challenged cross-dressers who could drive
> > down the middle of each street tossing bundled mail left and right out
> > their car windows ... or has this already been tried?
> >
> > Your Brother-In-Tank-Top,
> >
> > Evan
> >
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