Anyone who has picked up a comic book, mail-ordered X-Ray Glasses, or ever been nine years old can recall the ads: the cramped type, the Depression-era line art, the promise of "Fooling Your Friends".
* * * Maybe nothing could live up to the promise of those ads: a literal-minded F.T.C. investigated the company in the nineteen-forties for misrepresentation, and the 2011 book "Mail-Order Mysteries" gleefully compared the come-on with what you actually received.
So if the winners could e-mail me their address at nicholas at crunchgear dot com I'll have the art book mailed out this week.
One international media network said in an e-mail that it felt the need to have Kadeer's book mailed to its China bureau discreetly because "...the Chinese authorities can be a little oversensitive when it comes Ms. Kadeer".
Newspapers, magazines, books, mail.. . .
The items most commonly hoarded, the A.P.A. says, are newspapers, magazines, old clothes, bags, books, mail, and paperwork, though valuable materials — indeed, cash and checks — may also be included with the junk.
The items most commonly hoarded, the A.P.A. says, are newspapers, magazines, old clothes, bags, books, mail, and paperwork, though valuable materials indeed, cash and checks may also be included with the junk.
Valentino looked into the possibility of having books mailed to Kenya and then trucked in, but found he would have to pay prohibitive import duties.
