Further down the article:
But beyond that, it defies belief. Organizing a million people to send emails is hard enough to accomplish, and that doesn't require getting postcards into peoples' hands. A million postcards means distributing a million postcards to a million people who actually send them in to an agreed upon destination. It's extremely hard to believe that this could be accomplished without a lot of people being aware of it. People like, say, folks who write about politics for The Washington Post. Seems like it would have popped up on my radar screen.
What makes this particularly tricky is the fact that the postcards are printed with the wrong address.
The punch line:
Have you used that Metro stop recently? Did you see a pile of one million postcards? Please let us know. For reference, assuming that a ream of 150 sheets of card stock is about 1.4 inches thick, you'll be looking at 9,300 inches of stacked-up postcards. Or 778 feet. That's two hundred feet taller than the Washington Monument. Stacked vertically. In a big lump, it's about half the size of a gray whale.
Should be noticeable in an office building, right? So we asked the Republican National Committee how many postcards they may have received. "We have received a grand total of zero," said spokesman Michael Short.
No word on whether or not he checked the metro station.
Perhaps one of the STrumpets on the forum here would enlighten us about whether they've been sending these postcards.
