Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!earlw From: earlw@Apple.COM (Earl Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Re^2: FCC doing it again... Message-ID: <5476@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 29 Nov 89 00:48:13 GMT References: <1989Nov28.011514.4193@virtech.uucp> <246@cfa.HARVARD.EDU> <5464@internal.Apple.COM> <34661@cornell.UUCP> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 10 In article <34661@cornell.UUCP> murthy@alsvid.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) writes: >... >Read the article more carefully. And think. The Post Office charges less >for bulk mail because it's not much more costly to do the routing of >a large package than it is for a small package. The major cost is the >human one - handling. So it makes sense to charge less per lb. for bulk >than for letters. >... Hummm... I think you missed the ':-)' somehow....