I always used to see coupons and advertisements under the mailbox flags on my street (when I used to check the mail).

*I wont be putting the article inside the mailboxes*

Will I get in legal trouble?

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Getting Your Mail – We Deliver!

As a mail carrier, there are quite a few things that I observe that could be prevented if our customers knew about them. This is a list of common preventable reasons why your mail may not have been delivered.

No House Numbers On Mailbox. Has the neighbors mail been delivered to you? Put the numbers on your mailbox and I guarantee it will increase the odds of you getting YOUR mail.

Name/s Inside of Mailbox. Do you constantly receive mail for previous occupants at your address? Use a wax pencil or a marker and note the names of the current occupants inside the mailbox door.

Box Blocked. If your mailbox is blocked for any reason, we will not deliver your mail. This includes being blocked by cars, recycling bins, garbage cans, etc. For the safety of the mail carrier, we are not supposed to get out of the delivery vehicle to deliver the mail, unless you have an oversized parcel. Did you know that in most areas, the garbage cans & recycling bins can be placed on the opposite side of the driveway? It is a common misconception that they will not pick up unless you place them by the mailbox or on one side or the other. Check with your local waste management company.

No Flag! Did your mail not get picked up because your flag is broken or missing? Replacement flags are available for sale for around .00 and you don’t have to worry anymore whether that bill will go out on time!

Broken/Damaged Box. If your box is damaged, and off the post, we are not supposed to deliver to it. This is true regardless of whether you have it sitting on the ground, propped on a chair, etc.

Too Much Brush! You may not receive mail simply because your plants/bushes are out of control! Usually you will receive some kind of notice asking you to clean up around the box. However, if you do not take action, your mail may be put on hold until it is taken care of. Please keep in mind that this is a safety issue – The brush may have thorns, biting or stinging insects, or it may just be grown out too far and we can no longer reach to open the box!

Biting/Stinging Insects. I guarantee you that your mail carrier has been bit by a spider or stung by a bee or wasp. Wasps especially LOVE to build nests in and around mailboxes. Did you know that you can develop an allergy to a wasp or bee sting even if you never previously had a problem? This can be serious, even deadly, so please take care of the insects for your safety AND ours!

Dogs It is not news that dogs and mail carriers don’t mix well. However, sometimes people don’t understand our actions. Just a few examples of issues with dogs include:

Being chased by dogs – They see the stop and go of the truck, and chase it as a fun game.
Nips through the window – Our windows are kept open so low that many dogs can jump up and nip us
Small dogs running around the truck – We cannot see small dogs in our mirrors and are fearful of hitting them with the vehicle.
Letting your dog out when we come to the door – Please do not let your dogs out when you come to the door – even small dogs – because even though they would never hurt/nip you, there is no way to know how they will react to a stranger. A very high percentage of our yearly dog bites to carriers are by small dogs that would “never hurt a fly.” This is a preventable issue that will be pursued through legal means/insurance if something happens.
Leaving your dog loose outside – There are numerous safety issues with this practice and no one wants your dog to be injured or killed.

Also, did you know that many home improvement sites and shows say that putting up a new mailbox is one of the best ways to increase curb appeal, especially when a house is up for sale. In addition, it is one of the cheapest renovations you can make!

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this note on mailbox delivery. Please pass it on to your friends!

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Something changed in my email, and now I have gray dots next to all mail. When I put my cursor over the dot, it says "flag message." There’s also a flag at the top of the column. I tried checking all messages and hitting "remove flag," but nothing happens. When I open email now, there is a gray banner where the "from, etc." information should be. If I try to flag the message, an orange flag appears. I’ve heard of this happening in yahoo beta, but never classic. Can someone help?

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The Death Of mail Marketing?

Many Internet marketers have deduced that email marketing faces the worst crisis since its discovery. They ground this conclusion on the massive increase of unsolicited emails known better as SPAM. Recent Research has proved that the clicks of every email campaign have been reduced to the lowest point. Before few years email campaigns were very productive with click percentage of 15%-25%. Unfortunately this ratio has dropped to 2% today.

Since every internet user receives a huge amount of spam email messages, the time for distinguishing the legal opt-in subscriptions messages from spam has increased considerably. Therefore it’s highly possible for the user to erase the genuine messages with the spam messages.

Although these facts are true, the “Death of email marketing” as some internet marketers call it, will not happen. Solid proofs for that are the many corporations, small businesses, and home business entrepreneurs running successful and profitable email campaigns.

All these successful email marketing campaigns do have something in common, some specific principals that any online business entrepreneurs should incorporate into their marketing plans.

1. Personalization. Research has proven that when Personalization is used the click through rate of the email increases dramatically. The friendly tone is the key to build rapport with the subscriber. Most of the autoresponder services and email software contain this feature. One thing must be specified though. There must be no exaggeration in the personalization otherwise the results will be reversed.

2. Email marketing schedules. The frequency of the mailings is extremely important. Although it seems tempting to send emails daily, with that strategy many of the subscribers will unsubscribe, especially if the mails contain advertisements most of the times and not useful information. One of the best email marketing tactics is to broadcast one time per week and not exceed two times per week maximum.

3. Which is the Best Day for campaigns? The answer is simple, Friday. The internet user has the whole weekend to check his email and distinguish the spam with the luxury of time, something not possible in other days of the week.

4. Use of double opt-in. The subscribers who signed double opt-in are extremely targeted, because they verified their interest for the newsletter and they are more disposed to buy the products or services the email list owner recommends. Plus, this feature provides maximum safety to newsletter owner from spam complaints and the relevant consequences.

5. Recommend not sell, plus unique content. The internet user searches for information on the internet. The same happens with the user’s email. The subscription happens for that reason for over 95% of the times. The messages must contain a combination of useful information and personal recommendations of tested and proven products or services.

6. No Co-Registrations. This is the easy way to boost the number of the subscribers on the email list. Co-Registrations offer forms to users with many other email list owners with different fields of interest. The danger of spam accusations relies on that method and the effectiveness is questionable.

7. Buying leads to send emails. Another hyped email marketing technique. The list owner who bought the leads will not be clearly informed how the “subscriber’s” emails have been acquired. Have they been gathered with ethical opt-in methods or email script crawler has been used? There is no control on that tactic and here too relies the danger of spam accusations.

8. No Red flag words. Words and phrases like free, discount, bonus, make money, opportunity, income .e.t.c. lead the email to spam folders. These phrases should be avoided at all costs.

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Death Of mail Marketing?

Many Internet marketers have deduced that email marketing faces the worst crisis since its discovery. They ground this conclusion on the massive increase of unsolicited emails known better as SPAM. Recent Research has proved that the clicks of every email campaign have been reduced to the lowest point. Before few years email campaigns were very productive with click percentage of 15%-25%. Unfortunately this ratio has dropped to 2% today.

Since every internet user receives a huge amount of spam email messages, the time for distinguishing the legal opt-in subscriptions messages from spam has increased considerably. Therefore it’s highly possible for the user to erase the genuine messages with the spam messages.

Although these facts are true, the “Death of email marketing” as some internet marketers call it, will not happen. Solid proofs for that are the many corporations, small businesses, and home business entrepreneurs running successful and profitable email campaigns.

All these successful email marketing campaigns do have something in common, some specific principals that any online business entrepreneurs should incorporate into their marketing plans.

1. Personalization. Research has proven that when Personalization is used the click through rate of the email increases dramatically. The friendly tone is the key to build rapport with the subscriber. Most of the autoresponder services and email software contain this feature. One thing must be specified though. There must be no exaggeration in the personalization otherwise the results will be reversed.

2. Email marketing schedules. The frequency of the mailings is extremely important. Although it seems tempting to send emails daily, with that strategy many of the subscribers will unsubscribe, especially if the mails contain advertisements most of the times and not useful information. One of the best email marketing tactics is to broadcast one time per week and not exceed two times per week maximum.

3. Which is the Best Day for campaigns? The answer is simple, Friday. The internet user has the whole weekend to check his email and distinguish the spam with the luxury of time, something not possible in other days of the week.

4. Use of double opt-in. The subscribers who signed double opt-in are extremely targeted, because they verified their interest for the newsletter and they are more disposed to buy the products or services the email list owner recommends. Plus, this feature provides maximum safety to newsletter owner from spam complaints and the relevant consequences.

5. Recommend not sell, plus unique content. The internet user searches for information on the internet. The same happens with the user’s email. The subscription happens for that reason for over 95% of the times. The messages must contain a combination of useful information and personal recommendations of tested and proven products or services.

6. No Co-Registrations. This is the easy way to boost the number of the subscribers on the email list. Co-Registrations offer forms to users with many other email list owners with different fields of interest. The danger of spam accusations relies on that method and the effectiveness is questionable.

7. Buying leads to send emails. Another hyped email marketing technique. The list owner who bought the leads will not be clearly informed how the “subscriber’s” emails have been acquired. Have they been gathered with ethical opt-in methods or email script crawler has been used? There is no control on that tactic and here too relies the danger of spam accusations.

8. No Red flag words. Words and phrases like free, discount, bonus, make money, opportunity, income .e.t.c. lead the email to spam folders. These phrases should be avoided at all costs.

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3 Important Reasons You Should Configure Outlook for Yahoo Mail Access

If you use both Yahoo Mail and Outlook, there are three major reasons you should configure Outlook for Yahoo Mail access. First, you will save yourself time every time you need to check your mail. Second, you will be able to apply Outlook’s sophisticate message handling features to your Yahoo mail. Third, it lets you feed your Yahoo mail contents into Outlook’s Personal Information Management (PIM) tools.

A Yahoo Outlook connection lets you check your Yahoo mail right in Outlook, instead of forcing you to open a browser window and work with your mail in two separate places. That’s one less chore for you to do, and one less chance for problems like missing something important because you didn’t feel like checking your Yahoo mail at the wrong time.
When you configure Outlook for Yahoo mail, you have access to Outlook’s mail handling tools, powerful tools like folders and flags and mailing lists. That’s because your Yahoo mail appears in the Outlook Inbox as if it was any other Outlook messages. You can take all those techniques you’ve learned for handling your messages in Outlook and apply them to your Yahoo messages too.
Configuring Outlook for Yahoo also makes it easy to use Outlook’s Calendar, Tasks, Notes and all its other Personal Information Management systems with your Yahoo Mail. Any personal information management techniques you use with your regular Outlook mail, you can use with your Yahoo mail, once you configure Outlook for Yahoo messages and those messages are coming into your Outlook Inbox.

As this article has shown, you can reap some significant benefits by configuring Outlook to work with your Yahoo account. With the quality instructions I’ve linked to below, it takes only minutes. I urge you to set up this connection immediately.

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What is electronic mail?

Electronic mail also known as e-mail is a service which a user can send or receive message. It is currently the most widely used Internet application to date from its creation in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson on the Arpanet system which enabled universities to communicate to its definition by Jon Postel.

E-mail has far overcome its counterparts such as postal systems (snail mail) reducing dramatically in paper usage as a fast way of sending messages to clients, friends and family. With transport of email taking only a matter of seconds across web hosting servers world-wide. Settings can be altered to allow delays in messages etc. for security measures.

Users will gain access to one or more mailboxes which receives messages from other users across servers. The mailbox is a place where messages are stored and managed, you can also create messages to send to other emails. Mail boxes are password protected to allow security, even more measures can be taken to ensure security if required.

Messages sent to a recipient is not guaranteed as if a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server fails it will not be delivered usual systems will send a non-delivery notification to let you know of the issue.

A delivery request may also be placed upon a e-mail message this allows a notification to be sent back to the user (if accepted by the email recipient). Priority can also be set on a email red flagging a message making the end reader know its a important email.

Find out more information about the internet and its workings at our webmasters blog.

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Spam Mail

Spam Mail: An overview

How Does A Spam Mail Overflow Initiates?

Each day more and more neophytes to the internet hook up their computers and start surfing; as with any other neophyte behaviour would do, they will start by doing a query search on particular items such as school related assignments and other matters that are particularly related or linked to their daily life.

The internets is a powerful magnet and as such, search engines and sheer human curiosity will cause more new surfers to browse a page that they do not know or find amusing.

Sometimes the user will have to “register” to gain access to the website, newly arrived surfers think that it is “safe” to give the email address out, they will register becoming one of the best sources where Spam Mail senders gather their information.

Other sources of email addresses gathering for spammers (a.k.a “address harvesting”) are chat rooms and, of course, the always popular email chains.

When a person that is receiving the unwanted mail with all the good faith in the world activates the link to unsubscribe to the email that he or she is receiving, this will validate the address and encourage the spammer to send more emails of other products, services and different things.

What Are Doing ESPs To Stop It?

Normally, any email service provider (ESP) offers a wide variety of spam filters that are almost entirely devoted to preventing, blocking and filtering those unwanted emails from their email user’s inboxes; nonetheless, they cannot fully filter or prevent unwanted mail to pass through their filters.

This basic procedure has given birth to a wide range of protective measures that are focused to block and prevent the use of the internet mail system to send unwanted emails.

Unfortunately, spammers seem to be one step ahead of the international agencies and offices that are devoted to put a halt by using automatic bots that are designed and built to activate and generate email accounts under different names, so when an email account is flagged as a spam source and deleted from existence, five more take its place.

The counterpart to this is called “captcha” which requires an immediate action or typing of a word, characters or numeric code in order to authenticate a new email account, still spam mail bots are able to circumvent such measures simply by using image-processing software.

Learn More:

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Would Gmail Outsmart Microsoft Outlook As Leading Desktop Mail Application?

Today, email is the most crucial tool for communication online. The software giant has ruled the email for years. While, its Hotmail is the most popular web email services, Outlook remains the most popular desktop tool for reading and managing the inbox.

Launched in 2004, Gmail had reached the third slot last year. Gmail has provided the rapid advance of online e-mail technology that permits users to check their mails anywhere in the world.

Here, the feature compares Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with Google’s Gmail.

Search

In Outlook 2007, the Redmond giant greatly improved its search capabilities. It is now driven by Windows Desktop Search and provides fast results. It also searches content from the attachments.

In contrast, Gmail is still much faster than Outlook. Here, the search function works smoothly and checks all the messages including chat messages. Further, users can also search individual folders.

Folders vs. Labels

In Gmail, users can tag their mails through labels. Further, you can tag one mail under multiple labels without copying the message. It seems that the labels are superior than folders and Gmail has more flexible approach towards labeling.

In contrast, Outlook 2007 features color-coded/named categories and Search Folders, which are similar to Gmail. But, as the categories lack correlation, they are not the complete alternative for the folder tree.

Automatically Mail Processing

It seems that Outlook has more choices for diverting messages than Gmail, and provides option for creating rules and fills the relevant information, which is not easy to configure. In Gmail, user can simply set their filter and will affect all the Gmail, regardless of where you access it. But, if you do not have Microsoft Exchange, then the rules will not be incorporated.

Contacts

In Outlook, you have to create contacts manually, whereas Gmail automatically creates contacts based on your email correspondence. Users can pick any address form Gmail by punching Contacts, whereas Outlook also remembers the email addresses that are corresponded, but it stored the information in difficult to access text file called an NK2 file.

Spam Filtering

Gmail comes with default spam blocking, whereas Outlook uses the out-of-the-box Outlook spam filtering.

Storage Space

Gmail provides 6.76 GB storage for no charge or 25GB for /year. Whereas, in Outlook with Exchange, the storage is associated with high price, therefore users are provided in between 100 MB and 2 GB of storage. However, users who use Outlook without an Exchange connection have nothing to worry about the storage but have to transfer data regularly after they hit a couple GB.

Workflow

Outlook allows users to process their email and manage responsibilities. In contrast, Gmail does not offer as many workflow options. For various businesses, Outlook offers expanded feature-set like tasks, task sharing, message flagging, shared contact list, etc.

Discussion

If user is familiar with the Office suite, then it is easy to use Outlook. But, if you are new in the email world then Gmail is a suitable mailing system for the users.

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I have bought my pass, but i haven’t been this year. My pass has already been activated and sent to me in the mail, but Six flags sent me a card to take to will call to retrieve the coupon book. But i need to know if i can use a coupon in the book before i go so i can take my boyfriend. Please help!

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