Word: mailboxes
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...flood of credit-card offers into your mailbox is set to increase following a court decision last week that opened the door for American Express and Discover to pursue your business more aggressively. By opting not to hear the last-possible appeal of an antitrust ruling against MasterCard and Visa, the Supreme Court ended a six-year legal battle over how the two market leaders blocked rivals from partnering with card-issuing banks. American Express announced that it would roll out credit cards with MBNA, and Discover is pursuing new partners too. The change comes at a time when consumers...
Because the depot must first inform the superintendents before they can inform students of package arrival via e-mail (in every house except Lowell, which uses mailbox slips), there is typically a delay of at least half a day. Students who track their package through the carrier directly, however, do not always get the correct information regarding the arrival date. As a result, the package depots sometimes entertain the same student visitors multiple times...
Somewhere along the line, your e-mail In box started to look like your real mailbox, full of unwanted ads and "free" offers that somehow aren't. New spam- filtering software may have helped cut back on the lewdness, but those programs sometimes drop good friends in the junk folder. DigiPortal's ChoiceMail ($40 at digiportal.com a scaled-down free version is also available) gets around that problem by checking IDs at the door to your In box. If the message is from someone already in your address book, the mail goes through, but if it's from an unknown...
...Hark now features a plasma screen for Law School announcements, student mailbox cubbies, an elevator, wooden floors, and up-to-date electrical, mechanical, audio-visual and air conditioning systems...
Oxtoby likened Wheeler’s accidental release of the mailbox combinations to the leaking of private information in a well-publicized ongoing rape trial...