Online retailers like Amazon and Zappos make it easy for customers to return items with pre-printed return labels.

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Email, E-Cards, Social Media, and pre-printed cards are easily discounted or ignored but a hand written note never is.

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In September, he and his colleagues pre-printed a paper on the subject which did not acknowledge the contribution to the field of two researchers called Arnon Dar and Nir Shaviv.

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Sir Martin revised the pre-printed version.

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Nevertheless, Capital One continued to send its customers the unsolicited cheques with a pre-completed loan amount printed.

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Banks then order more cash from their local Federal Reserve Banks, which have their own inventories of pre-circulated and newly-printed cash stored in large vaults.

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The classic example is pre-World War II Germany where the government literally printed money to pay it bills.

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