Instead of having to drive down to a rental store, the customers could get DVDs right at their homes without having to pay for postage.

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Harpers and the New Yorker and Fox pay their postage, and, their clerical workers (unless those clerical workers happen to be your sorry Gen-Y intern-backside).

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Require DVD customers to pay for postage?

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Finally, you input the address, pay the small postage fee, and away your real postcard goes.

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Staff losing their jobs at a theatre were asked to pay for their redundancy letters when the council sending them failed to pay the correct postage.

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