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From: jao@valid.UUCP (John Oswalt)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: sweepstakes odds
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 20:16:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 20:16:09 1986
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> Are these outfits (Publisher's Clearinghouse, et al) sending
> these entries to countries other than the US?  And do they
> award the prize to someone else if the "pre-selected" numbers
> are not sent in?
> 
> If so, show me how, with a 20% return rate for entries, and
> less than 200,000,000 households in the country, the odds can
> be any worse than 40,000,000 to 1.

We have received seven (7) Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes
envelopes at my house (household size two), and I have received
three more at my parents' house, where I haven't lived for
ten years!
-- 
John Oswalt (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!jao)