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   clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 02:38:30 JST clarity flowers

   post offices should have reverse economies of scale. sending one letter should be cheap and sending ten thousand letters should cost a million dollars

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     Neil Kandalgaonkar (neilk@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 03:49:43 JST Neil Kandalgaonkar

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     @clarity As far as I can tell this is…kinda complicated.

     I used to work for a junk mail, ahem, direct mail company. Half the clients were nonprofits sending heart-rending pleas for more cash. The others were pharmas reminding patients to take their meds. Everything was morally grey. 🤷🏻♂️

     Commercial mailers get bulk rates. But they also cost even less to process, so at the end of the day, they might be subsidizing that holiday card you addressed by hand

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 04:11:00 JST clarity flowers

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     • Neil Kandalgaonkar

     @neilk yeah but on the other hand, I'm watching an anime where a character talks about how postmen carry people's hopes and dreams in their letters and thinking about how. no they fucking don't, they carry advertisements.

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     Neil Kandalgaonkar (neilk@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 04:46:36 JST Neil Kandalgaonkar

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     @clarity And bills!

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 11:15:14 JST clarity flowers

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     • Eric Scouten

     @scouten yeah, pretty mush

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     Eric Scouten (scouten@ericscouten.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 11:15:16 JST Eric Scouten

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     • yosh

     @clarity @yosh you mean like my water bill works?

     (Reasonable use is pretty cheap. It escalates quickly as you use “too much.”)