CL "dnoyeB" Gilbert wrote:
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The pre-mailing was to get people out spending that check before it arrived.
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You really think they were that clever?

Might have worked on some, I suppose; that there was an attempt to
"prime the pump" so to speak hadn't occurred to me as possibility--just
looked(*) like a waste of trees, fuel and postage to me.

(*) Mostly still does, frankly...

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