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by mkyc 6035 days ago
No, the example given was voice clips. Your idea of a "trial run" is interesting, but I doubt that they're doing this to get some extra logistics practice. Unlike gmail or wave, mass mailing is a well-explored domain.

They're doing it to put the gmail logo on your fireplace mantle. Which is just fine, because you might not otherwise have sent a cheerful card. Plus their snowflake pun is hilarious.
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blahedo 6035 days ago
Mass mailing might be, but highly-individualised large-batch mailing? Every card distinct? Even if this is largely a holiday gift, I'm certain they're collecting data on it. The only question is what. Maybe some of the cards will be "tracers" sent to confederates who can verify delivery times of things sent in big batches? Maybe they have multiple printing-and-distribution locations throughout the country and they're testing those? Who knows....
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jrockway 6035 days ago
Or maybe they just wanted to be on social news sites again for a day.
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ShabbyDoo 6035 days ago
>They're doing it to put the gmail logo on your fireplace mantle.

I'd buy the argument if I was allowed to send, say, ten of them instead of just one. One would think that, if the value of piquing the interest in GMail of my first choice recipient exceeded $0.25, then the value of sending a card to my third or forth choice would also have a positive ROI.

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