I think I've found an interesting way to punish corporations that outsource their email to or . US corporations usually hire a registered agent to receive court docs, & it's just one dominant company (CT Corporation) in most cases. CT Corporation apparently does not forward correspondence to their clients electronically. Instead, they send it by UPS or FedEx letter.

So if you fax a letter to a corp whose resident agent is CT Corporation to the fax# of CT Corporation, they will print the fax & send it by UPS at their client's expense. So have fun sending letters to corporations that say "sorry I cannot/will not email outlook/google for $whatever_reason.. so I'm faxing your reg. agent" They will pay around $6 for each letter sent that way

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I don't know if the fax machines/servers of CT Corporation are so-called “secure fax”, but it wouldn't it be funny if they were receiving faxes like many people, that is by a 3rd party service that just delivers the fax by email anyway?

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The only thing I don't like about this angle of attack is that I generally & , so it then becomes a question of which corp is more evil, ups/fedex or the corp who must pay ~$6 for every letter you send?

@resist1984 assuming you're American, the US constitution doesn't allow anyone else to delivery "postal mail" (definition needed) except the US government. That's the reason UPS and Fedex charge so much. They're treating them like packages instead of letters, otherwise the USPS OIG would come after them. Anyone can delivery packages, but not mail. There have been court cases on this.

@resist1984 I mean, don't get me wrong, corporations can be fucking evil (and we shouldn't be blaming corporations which aren't even real tangible things - we should be going after the people running it)

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