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Shrinkwrapped Books

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shrinkwrapped-lamps dept.

NortWind writes "I just saw this in the InfoWorld paper, in the "The Gripe Line" by Ed Foster. It describes how a "...book arrived wrapped in plastic with a shrinkwrap license on the front". Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse..." I wrote an essay about this a year or two ago.

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  1. So, here's how to screw them over by wowbagger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mark the book "Refused - return to sender", and put it back in the mail box. The USPS will return the book to the sender and charge them for doing so, thus costing the sender more money. Plus, they now have all these books to get rid of.

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