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Mail Keeps Coming to World Trade Center Address
news.yahoo.com — Hundreds of pieces of mail still arrive every day bearing the postal code once reserved exclusively for the twin towers: 10048.
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- iomegaboy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11A sobering reminder. Thanks submitter.
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21apparently spammers are idiots, or just don't watch the news.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The article says that the towers had their own postal code.
How hard would it be for mailing marketers to query their databases for addresses with this postal code and get rid of them.
Even without the postal code (I'm sure some aren't aware that there's a postal code dedicated to the towers) it shouldn't be that hard to determine the street address of 2 (7?) buildings and wipe them out of their database.
The USPS should send a notification to bulk mailers about this. It would save them (the post office) time and aggravation in the long run, as well as save the bulk mailers a little bit (like that's even important, but still). - fishrjv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@sfacets:
I'm going with the former of your conclusions. - StudsTurkel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@gameforge... I don't think you realise it, but the post office is getting PAID to "deliver" that mail. I don't think they want to bite the (only) hand that feeds them by telling bulkmailers to stop.
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The article says that the towers had their own postal code.
- thxkbye, on 10/12/2007, -28/+3Not sure why this is on the front page.... wow
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Probably the same thing that's kept you from drowning in the shower so far
- michaelbeckham, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Why must idiots invade such somber stories. Get a damn conscience.
- sylar3, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Looks like they didn't get the memo.......
- DangerMouse9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Send them another, with that TPS report.
- Hellman109, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's obviously machine sent mail, where the lists are often unchecked for accuracy for years, and many companies do not have procedures to check them.
Im sure there are 1000x the volume headed for the trade centres goto other 'bad' addresses all over the place.
Ive seen email lists with hundreds of bad addresses, and they give feedback almost instantaneously, so a mailling address is easier to screw up.
One company I do work for has about 3 million addresses in it's database (although at most one small area is targeted by the local store at once) I would hate to see how many of those are bad... This is just Australian addresses too (population ~20 million, although take into account people per household it would be more then half the country...)- cvrefugee, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1What a bunch of tards.
- foobar5892, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Yes, and dead people receive bills. What's the big deal?
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27They vote too!
- DangerMouse9, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3sometimes 2 or 3 times!
- horizonstar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Kind of sad, when you think that facial junk mail would have been read or trashed by a office lady who gave up her life all of a sudden at that horrible moment. No one knows what will happen to himself tomorrow.
- BoratJagshemash, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4Who cares?
- Syntaxis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Well, currently 147 people seem to care.
- DangerMouse9, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3147 people vs. the whole internet
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5No one filled out a change of address form?
- kylesellers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Boooo!!
- kylesellers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Boooo!!
- KangarooFlyer, on 09/10/2008, -4/+0They should just lock up all the spammers without parole.
- foxhaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Maybe if they send enough, the towers will reappear!
- Mindris, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Maybe they could remake the towers out of the mail.
They'll withstand the impact of a plane just as well as last time. - zhulien, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2what a waste of stamps
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Touching
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