My post office has four blue mail collection bins out front. I frequently drop my mail there on my way to work, since my mail gets where it’s going about a day quicker than getting picked up at my house around noonish.
But they have two bins clearly marked “STAMPED MAIL” and two marked “METERED MAIL”. Netflix envelopes are business reply mail: they haven’t been marked by a meter machine, but I also don’t have to put stamps on them. I want to be a team player and help the post office out, but which one do you suppose they prefer?
Stamped. Metered mail refers to postal meters like the one in my office (and probably yours, too). It’s dated when the postage goes on, and they’re persnickety about TODAY’S date being on the mail when it goes out.
FWIW, Netflix wouldn’t mind at all if you put a stamp on your movies, as it would save them the postage at their end. Not that I’m advocating that, but things can work that way.
Does NEtflix work well for you? I’ve thought about it, but I sort of thought the timing thing would be difficult, like we wouldn’t have the movies when we wanted them to be there.
how so? you ask for three movies, and then you get them. you get the next one as soon as you send one in: the only problem is waiting those two days.
we love it, and now it’s slightly cheaper ($18 a month, and we watch about three movies a month).
I will say, Cat, that I’ve been thinking lately that it might be nice to have a little side membership at Blockbuster… in case we want to watch a movie with the kids, and all we have in the house is Roger and Me, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and some other cerebral thing that little people wouldn’t appreciate.
Generally, Netflix is great because you don’t have to leave the house and they have a REALLY extensive catalogue, so you can get art films, obscure stuff, or old movies that the video store wouldn’t be likely to have.
Fargo. The other movie is Fargo, and I’m sure the kids would love it.