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FROM CHRISTOPHER

2009 - November 5th
"Hello my name is Christopher, and I have recently become infatuated with social experiments. I am intrigued by your website and your willingness to talk to people you don't know. I guess I love hearing new stories, but they are always immensely more better in person. I have tried a few experiments out lately.

I don't know if this qualifies, but I will give it a go. Recently, I sent a letter to my pen-pal Ingrid. Usually I attach postage, however this time I decided to tape on the correct coinage and see if it works. I sent two letters actually, one with correct postage and the coin letter. It worked! The one with coins actually came faster then the correct letter. They had also left the coins on, making it essentially free. Also, postage stamp is supposed to pay for a one ounce letter, but with the addition of coins it would add a couple of ounces to the letter. I am surprised it worked, but went through the hands of many people. It was like committing a crime and everyone helped you along the way.

Another one, this last week I went to my college library....with my typewriter. I had two cameramen in secret positions. I typed in the middle of the library for a whole ten minutes interrupted. Finally after that period someone finally confronted me, quite rude actually, but understandable. See I live in the midwest and people are more reserved with their actions, I wanted to see how far I could take it."


2009 - November 6th
"Reverse Junk Mail: Today I saw a link about reverse junk mail that my friend sent me. I obliged him knowing that this would be worth my time, because I am about all things mail nowadays. Anyway, on the website they suggested on there that you can take the reply envelopes (in the junk mail), the ones with prepaid postage, attach it to a package and it will be sent to the company of origin. I hopped on board that ship right away. I found an old text book of mine called "Small Business for Dummies"(Irony). I placed this in a makeshift brown cardboard shipping box stuffed with old business week papers and taped the prepaid envelope on the outside and did some reverse junk mail. I don't know if it will work, but I suppose it will be an indirect way of getting rid of my garbage."