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Microsoft Promotions Turn Up in USPS Offices

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the public-display-of-affection dept.

Several readers, like this Anonymous Coward, have written with links to a letter from Cliff Crouch on macintouch.com. "I stumbled across this letter submitted to a web site I frequent. Apparently Microsoft has promotional displays with free WindowsXP promotional software in U.S. Post Offices."

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  1. So what? by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 1, Redundant
    AOL has been giving freebies for ages now. You have to avoid snail mail and cereal with quite a passion not to have noticed.


    Freebies are old news, Microsoft news isn't always exciting either.. they've had downloadable freebies (IE, web fonts) for ages now so even the combination isn't really new.


    Move on, nothing to see here. :)

  2. No... by BrianGa · · Score: 3, Redundant

    It's not the fact that they are giving away Demos, it's the place that the demos are being placed. A tie-in with a US Government agency is new.

  3. So what? by sulli · · Score: 2, Redundant
    And in other news, you can buy an AT&T prepaid phone card at the post office, and you can book a Hertz rent-a-car via Amtrak. We must save the taxpayers - nay, citizens - from this travesty of justice!

    Seriously, who cares? I bet if RHAT paid USPS enough, they'd put their CDs out too.

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  4. Do something about it by wirefarm · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I 'll first admit that I don't know if this is legal or not, but I hate to think that tax dollars are being used to rent a space for Microsoft to do their promotions in such a prominent location.

    I'd complain to your postmaster and probably a letter to the editor of your local paper. Leave out any anti-MS rant, just complain that this is not the sort of thing that they should be doing with public space.

    If that post office is anything like the ones I've had to use, they have a fairly captive audience, bored to tears waiting in line. Microsoft brochures would probably actually get *read* there (Think of the money that supermarkets must get paid to feature items in the checkout lanes - gum, candy, tabloids, etc.)

    If you really care, see if MS paid money to do this, and to whom...
    Cheers,
    Jim in Tokyo

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  5. Not out of place by r_j_prahad · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just another criminal hanging on the Post Office wall. What's so unusual about that?