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Originally Posted by BogeyBoy
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Back to the original question about them being dumped at the mail stations. Direct advertising mail is and always has been very wasteful - but it also employs a lot of people. Direct mail response rates run from under 1% to maybe 2% in a well planned target market. This goes on day after day, it's just more obvious when it is something out of the ordinary - like the political mailings.
Hang in there, a few more weeks and it will be over. (For now.)
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yes it does employ millions
And feeds the delivery and transportation, and other peripheral industries a
So do industries like tobacco, liquor, and illegal industries like illegal drugs,
organized crime, and the like
Over in the political forum ( where this might go) some might even mention
that our operations abroad are employing hundreds of thousands in the military and private sectors - including a large amount of non US citizens.
The fact that something provides employment is not virtuous in itself
Waste is waste, there are far better ways to get messages across than millions of tons weekly of placemat-style posters
There are only so msny birdcages to line in this world
Respectfully
L and L