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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Subject: Re: Idea to help curb unwanted junk mail
Message-ID: <1991May14.015238.27707@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
References: <kadie.672676571@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991May05.025110.8941@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <4534.28292e48@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 01:52:38 GMT
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In article <4534.28292e48@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com writes:
>In article <1991May05.025110.8941@ddsw1.MCS.COM>, zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) writes:
>> 	I don't know if this will work, but I have an idea.
>> 
>> 	The US Post Office should provide a service to people who don't want
>> junk mail.  These people will sign up and the post office will not deliver
>> mail which does not have their name on it. 
>
>Those informational mailings from your congresscritter that arrive
>during the months before elections are addressed to "Postal Patron".
>
>The US Postal Service (they changed their name some years ago) sells
>several services that deliver mail without even addresses on it.
>
>dan herrick
>herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com

	I know this.  I want a NEW item.  (I don't care to read what my
congressperson says anyway, even the replies to my letters with my address
and name on them are form letters.)

-- 
The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM


