The mysterious Qanon postcards

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This is interesting. They were able to get in touch with the person who mailed these out. And as I suspected, this wasn't cheap to do.


What a bizarre thing to waste money on. And what a waste of postal carrier energy too.

From the cited piece

It’s difficult to determine the exact number of houses the postcard was sent to, but there’s one clue that suggests the cards were sent to a lot of houses: The postcards don’t have individual names and addresses on them but instead use a service provided by the US Postal Service called “Every Door Direct Mail,” or EDDM.

This is a service that “allows customers to reach out to an entire ZIP Code, Three Digit ZIP Area or Region without printing an address on each individual piece of mail. They’re simply addressed to residents or postal customers. The cost of the mailing is based, in part, on volume and area covered,” USPS spokesperson Stephen Doherty, who also received one of the postcards, told VICE News.

Well I guess "volume and area covered" is a good reason for routes around here not to receive much mail via use of EDDM service. If you rolled this mountainous and already sprawl-sized county out flat, then the place would be the size of Texas... and half of all the trips past any mailbox are up some steep hill 😵‍💫 (a lot of fun in winter). There might even be fine print about extra stops for EDDM-generated work delivered by contract carriers past the usual daily average number of stops per route per day or week.

Hah, maybe the sender of that wacko Q-Anon-flavored missive figured this conservative congressional district already had its full quota of Q-Anon believers, even if the district has turned more purple the last few cycles and currently has a Democrat in office.
 
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