[Am-info] Windows XP at the Post Office

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by John Bryan on 1/22/02 11:43 AM ---

>I, too, saw these at my local post office.  Wondered what the hell MS 
>promotional material was doing at the letter drop boxes.  Pondered for a 
>moment to slide it into the nearby recycle bin....
>So how does a company that has been successfully sued, tried, convicted, 
>(but alas not penalized), by the federal government itself, get to place 
>its promotional material in federal post offices???
>Is this space freely available for anyone??  Since when? If not, then 
>what transpired that this company be able to do so?  Can other companies 
>do the same thing then?  The only thing from MS I can think of to 
>display in the post office is a photo of Gates, et al. in the Most 
>Wanted criminals section.

The USPS apparently does some commercial promotion deals. I've seen 
displays with Warner Bros. cartoon characters in the post office, but I 
don't remember what the tie-in was. I'd like to look into the deal with 
Microsoft, but can't really think where to start exactly.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com