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Why would a bill be a bulk email?
by mattl 4y ago
Why would a bill be a bulk email?
- brigandish 4y agoOne example might be an energy company (they tend to be big) that will send bills to a significant percentage of any residential area in its catchment area, probably four times a year at around the same time for everyone. Now repeat for water companies, phone companies, local government et cetera.
- mattl 4y agoNo reason for those to be bulk emails. They’d just be customized per customer.
- MiyamotoAkira 4y agoBulk, for a mail delivery company, refers exclusively to volume. You get discount on volume. Creating massive volumes of customized mails has been trivial for years.
- mattl 4y agoMy comment was about email, not snail mail.
- dredmorbius 4y ago<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35753488>
- dredmorbius 4y agoFor the USPS, "bulk mail" is a term of art, more properly bulk presorted mail. There are several categories: 500 pieces of first-class mail, 200 pieces or 50 lb as "USPS Marketing Mail", Parcel Select Ground (50-piece minimum per mailing), presorted and carrier route sourted bound matter (300 pieces), library mail (300 pieces), media mail (300 pieces). <https://www.usps.com/business/business-shipping.htm https://www.usps.com/business/business-shipping.htm> The tradition of discounting certain mailings, especially publications (e.g., newspapers) and books dates to the very beginning of the US postal service and was established by Benjamin Franklin. <https://www.history.com/news/us-post-office-benjamin-franklin https://www.history.com/news/us-post-office-benjamin-frankli...>
- dredmorbius 4y agoI strongly suspect crote wrote "email" intending "mail". Particularly as little email carries stamps or requires sorting by a post office. I've nearly done the same several times in this thread myself. "Mail" really doesn't roll off my fingertips so readily these days.