** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** The Washington Post has a special on right now, $9.99 for a year. Why don’t you all take out a subscription then cancel it, you still get to read the paper for the next year anyway if you already paid the $9.99. Then send them a letter like sent.
Put this information in the Newsletter. I’m not sure how long it will last. They could certainly use the extra digital readership. Mike Payne France On 8 Jan 2022, at 23:51, Jim McClellan <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That's great but here's what we need to do - We need to gather together as an organization and inundate the Washington Post with requests to include real world units along side proprietary and arcane "American" ones. I was a bit naive when I sent the USMA money to join. I thought it was an active, vocal organization. Here's just a few watershed events that have transpired since the formation of the United States Metric Ass'n (in no particular order) - End of suffrage - 1920 Prohibition - 1920 Repeal of prohibition - 1933 Gay marriage - 2017 Recreational marijuana - 1995 (California with other states to follow) Civil rights act - 1964 2 World Wars 1917 and 1941 Moon landing 1969 Polio vaccine - 1954 Rutherford splits the atom - 1932 The transistor is invented - 1947 First passenger jet - 1951 32 new elements were discovered and added to the Periodic Table Yet, in the 106 years since the USMA has formed, I'm still not allowed to have my height & weight represented on my drivers license using the International System of Units. You get the point. Seems the USMA is more of a group of enthusiasts than an organization working towards change. How do we turn it up a few notches? Go metric, America! What are you afraid of? On Jan 8, 2022, at 11:55 AM, Michael Payne <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: ** Caution: EXTERNAL Sender ** I thought cancelling this subscription might have the desired effect as I live in France. Think how many more subscriptions they could sell ! Mike Payne France Begin forwarded message: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Response to Ticket #[2138096] Re: Censoring metric units Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:11:04 +0000 From: Washington Post Customer Care <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Reply-To: Washington Post Customer Care <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> To: Bwanapayne <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> ##- Please type your reply above this line -## Linda Chong (Washington Post Customer Care) Jan 7, 2022, 10:11 AM EST Thank you for your feedback. We have sent your message to the relevant departments. Bwanapayne Jan 7, 2022, 6:12 AM EST I'm cancelling my subscription to the Washington Post because you censor out all metric units. I live in a metric world, let me know when you change editorial policy, for now I will read news on the APNews website which includes metric. This email is a service from Washington Post Customer Care. [WGG9KQ-3ZE8] _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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