Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Random Thought of the Day

Here's a thought (and no, I will not begin every post that way): you know how in most junk mail things, magazines, catalogs, etc, there comes a "Business Reply Mail" if you want to reply with a subscription?

See in the top right corner? "NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES". It's already paid for. Stupid. How much money do these businesses spend on this "Business Reply Mail"? And how many people actually reply to these things?! Definitely less than half, that is. All the money goes to waste. It's crazy. We wonder why our economy is going to hell, and it's because we spend businesses money on things like this.

All the money they use on something like this could go to a better cause! It doesn't have to be going to the Army or something, but it should go to something like the homeless shelters, or third-world countries getting water! A couple million of these envelopes (which is about the population of ONE large city) have enough postage worth to make a build a few homeless shelters.

Corporations should do the math. What is 1 MILLION (stamps) x 41 cents is????? 41 million cents. That's $410K.

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