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A decline in email spam?

A decline in email spam?

Posted Jul 8, 2011 21:54 UTC (Fri) by blitzkrieg3 (subscriber, #57873)
In reply to: A decline in email spam? by oak
Parent article: A decline in email spam?

You can send any canceled stamp through the post and the machines that route it will read it as "already canceled" (presumably by the first machine to process it) and if it isn't found by the letter carrier, it will be delivered as normal.

The reason people don't do this is because there isn't %100 chance of delivery, and you can land yourself in trouble if you do.


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A decline in email spam?

Posted Jul 8, 2011 21:59 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

>The reason people don't do this is because there isn't %100 chance of delivery, and you can land yourself in trouble if you do.

also, most people are honest and do the right thing, even then they can probably get away with stealing.

A decline in email spam?

Posted Jul 14, 2011 5:12 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014) [Link]

It's also expensive to figure out whether they can get away with stealing or not.

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