Marketing 101 February 2nd, 2001 @ 4:06 pm PST
I bought something from amazon.com a few days ago and it just arrived. Included in the package were ten one-cent stamps with a nice little note about how they were saving me the hassle of going to the post office to buy more stamps (because the rates increased a penny). It is a ridiculously silly […]
Postal Service Craziness December 8th, 2000 @ 2:21 pm PST
They knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees? How honest? How sentimental? In short, how eccentric a behavior on the part of the sender would still […]
