Right wing wackos as a revenue source?
TweetPostcom points out that a group pushing the idea of a Berlin-style wall along the US-Mexico border is asking people to send bricks to their Congressmen.
Could be a revenue windfall! After all, you have to figure that the bricks are never going to get any further than the site where they do the anthrax screening for mail addressed to federal agencies. It’s not like we’d actually have to deliver them to the actual members of Congress.
Best quote from the web site:
“It is very important that you include a message on the brick and a signed letter so that the brick is not just discarded.”
(Clever- I know when I get a brick in the mail I always look to see if there’s a signed letter with it before I decide what to do with it.)
April 21st, 2006 17:15
[...] Like we said, we figured this mail-a-brick thing was a sure fire revenue enhancer- maybe it works both ways? (But then again, if Congresspersons really replied in kind, their bricks would be franked- we’d never see the money…) [...]
April 24th, 2006 20:02
UPS would be less expensive.
May 13th, 2006 08:47
[...] So much for the revenue potential of gun nuts and other assorted wing nuts sending bricks to Congress to build an American Berlin Wall along the Mexican border. It turns out that rather than a grass roots scheme to get individuals to actually mail a brick to their congressmen, the scheme uses a web site where you have to pay $11.95 to have a contractor ship your brick via UPS Freight to Washington. (Apparently even grass roots movements contract out these days.) That does seem a bit pricey for bricks- could the contractor be another Halliburton subsidiary? [...]
May 29th, 2006 12:59
Ups is a waste of time.