Re: OT: 2D Barcodes on Junk Mail

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Robert Baer wrote:

mpm wrote:

On Jul 30, 12:03�am, NG Neer <NGN...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


They'll use a tamper-proof envelope, and then encode your bank balance
in the postage cancellation mark.

Huh? if "they" already knew your bank balance, who are they secretly
encoding it for?


You don't get it, do you?
This is exactly the sort of thing that is ripe for abuse.

Some idiot in the mail dept will probably grab fields out of database
somewhere and pop them into the 2D postage barcode. And for what
possible reason? There is no reason for the 2D barcode to be on the
mailpiece in the first place!!

Doesn't have to be a bank, though that was the example I used.
Maybe it's your Visa statement, or your medical bills, or your
retirement / trust fund records, or your school grades. Do they
really need to encode ANY of this information in the postage
cancellation??

I'm not saying they do (but I'll bet it has happened and nobody
noticed!).
But other than "Postage paid. Permit # XYZ" and maybe the dollar
amount, what else is needed. (And even that isn't "needed" because
the Post Office pays no attention to it whatsoever.)

You know, I guess another thing that bothers me is they want the City
& State on the mailpiece, when the zip code has this info encoded
already.

Why print: "Howey in the Hills, FL" when "34737" will do the job?
Why both?


Talk about useless and meaningless *REQUIRED* duplication, may i
refer you to the many online forms that require a "verification" of
one's e-mail?



Useless and meaningless? You would be amazed at how many people
can't type the same thing twice. Even if they do, quite often it's
still wrong. Then you have somone waiting for infromation, a price
quote, or appointment and no way to contact them.

I have a simple text file listing all that inforamtion, and simply
copy it & paste it twice. A couple clicks, and no errors.


Most of these stupidites are on forms where one is requesting information.
One would think that a requester knows their own e-mail address and if reasonably desirous of an answer, that they would enter their e-mail correctly.
If not, then tough tissue paper.
A "second", MANDATED request just compounds the stupidity that you allude to ("never end a sentence a preposition with").
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