It would not have been delivered. There is a limit to the amount that can be mailed by those prepaid deals and the post office has been aware of this trick you years so they just dispose of over heavy packages.
I've wondered though with the quality of modern printers and scanners and the simple text in a box noting that the envelope is prepaid if one wanted to they could make multiple copies of said envelope on to blanks and mail each part of the card back in a different envelope. But the cost of blank envelopes and ink would hurt you more than them.

I'm guessing that he was keying off >>... the epidemic of mental disease...<< in your post, thinking of the alleged effects of lead poisoning of the Romans from their water pipes (lead).

I called one of my credit card companies and I got an indian sounding woman and she asked "and where are you calling from?" I told her, and she promptly replied they were in a town 3 hours from me (in one the most expensive areas of the state I might add) and told me how nice the weather was today. I believe she quoted the temperature too. To me, that smaked of a list of cities near my billing address with current weather and temperature.

Or she could have been telling the truth.

I have to do a lot of tle support with West Publishing Co - the worlds largest legal publishing company - in Min'eh'soh'tah. I love it. We give each other grief about our accents, or lack thereof.

Other day I had to call a software support company and got a very nice and knowldgable fellow with a very Indian accent. I asked where he was, and he said "Montreal." Go figure.

I don't think I will be talking to too many Canadians in India, but I am not surprised to talk to Indians anywhere. Who is exporting what, and why?

And if you have ever been to Lufkin, Texas, you would know why the had to 'outsource' -- there just ain't many folks there, and the telco probably could not support the volume. At least the money comes home in the end, even if the jobs don't.

so are you saying the place you work for [west publishing] outsources to India too, or is that another company?

Friend, please re-read my post more carefully.

so it's the software company that outsources, makes little difference anyway, most american jobs are being outsourced, virtually everything we buy is now made in china, very little is made here and if it is, it's all foreign parts, it's all very depressing

I'm not being racist here, but now you have the frustration level of mostly southern black people with their own dialect, trying to talk to an Indian who speaks with an accent. That should make for some interesting phone conversations. Foreigners have a real hard time understanding differences in pronounciation and grammer use. If I said "Ain't that right?" or "That the way it be", most native american english speakers would not have a problem understanding.

The only good thing to come out of it might be more money for the individuals because of a misunderstanding!

Have I spelled "Boycott" correctly? I already have a couple of American?? companies on my list that have outsourced to India. I get Very irratated when I am trying to conduct business over the phone (buying or troubleshooting a product) and have the added frustration of communicating with someone that does not understand English or makes me say "would you please repeat that" more than once. People Power is alive and well, if only America would use it. We need to send a Strong message to our American companies that outsourcing American jobs is NOT GOOD FOR BUSINESS!!


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Seems like more and more products are being created, assembled, or supported from overseas.

American companies don't realize (or don't care) that they're hurting themselves further down the road. Instead they're worried about the short-term savings and the bottom line.

Won't we all be surprised when countries like India and China start marketing their own big-name products here for cheaper than we can build ours there. Then the U.S. companies will call for tariffs and trade restrictions, citing how woeful the situation has become. The only ones they reallly have to blame is themselves.

Okay, I'm rambling and ranting. Too much coffee this morning. Off my soapbox.