Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Must Be for the Principle

Most of my snail mail these days consist of bills (the little that I don't get by ebill), junk advertisements, National Geographics (once a month), and solicitation of my money for random charity organizations. So I was quite tickled by something I received by mail yesterday.

I moved in December to a different unit because my old unit got flooded after raining. Apparently after paying the final bills of all my utilities, I was owed some refund from AT&T (internet, phone, tv). So according to the stamp, AT&T spent $0.42. The refund? $0.02. Basically, AT&T spent 21 times more to deliver the refund to me ($0.02 times 21 equals $0.42). Not very cost effective. I have to admire AT&T's principle to deliver me my refund!

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