A few nice free email addresses images I found:
Everybody likes Free! That’s why they call it “Free”!
Have the diverse elements of any other industry shown such a fine ability to function as a unit for its members’ benefit than the creators, publishers, distributors, and sellers of comic books do on Free Comic Book Day?
(OK, yes, the banking industry. And the oil industry. Perhaps I should say “For its own benefit and that of consumers.“)
The first Saturday in May — a date originally chosen to coincide with the opening weekend of the first “Spider-Man” movie — is Free Comic Book Day at comic book shops everywhere. If you go to your local shop, you can get free comics.
As in: walk in, take comics, leave. Not “…with any purchase,” not “…just register with your name, date of birth, and email address.” Free comics.
The only “gotcha” is that you can’t, you know, come in, smash a locked display case, grab a G/VG-graded copy of Detective Comics #27, and wave to the clerk on your way out. No, there’s a specific display of comics that are free for the taking.
And everyone is in on it. The retailers and the publishers alike. Marvel, DC, and most of the smaller publishers even create and print special books just for the event, usually with material for new readers in mind. They give these books to the shops for free and the shops pass the savings on to the consumer.
It’s a wonderful idea and I’m glad that it’s become an established annual event.
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Lifetime Address
When everyone figured that giving people free email for live was the future of the internet, the German post office jumped on the bandwagon, years after everyone already had an address. In 2004, they shut the service down.
I fond this card when I was going through old unopened moving crates that have been sitting in my various basements over the last six years (many treasures in there). It’s hilarious to see that their slogan was “The address for life”.
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