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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: look out for discounted stamps (bundled with advertisements)
Message-ID: <3048@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 19:28:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 19:28:39 1986
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[ seen on local TV-news today ]

some outfit made an agreement with the US-post office to sell 22-cents
stamps stuck on some advertising sticker, costing about
20+% less than face value (i.e. a book of 20 'stamps' costs $3.xx)

what you get is a sticker several times the size of the stamp which is an
advertisement for detergent or some-such, with a 22-cents stamp glued on
somewhere.  You stick it on your letter where it seemed to take up the
complete right third of a regular sized envelope.

Marketing seems to be done through one of those companies selling all those
cards for 'special occasions' (M&M??? - I can't recall, sorry), available
*NOW* !!!!

	tacky?  a bargain?  a bit of both, it seems to me ...  ---Werner