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Mailing physical cash? Because it's a security concern? (theft)
You never got a birthday card in the mail with a $10 bill inside?
A transient mailing of discrete paper cash is different than a call-to-action requesting coins that will be delivered to the same address on a regular basis.
Can I just mail you postage instead of heavy quarters? I think that would be nicer to the USPS.
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I thought that a Ponzi scheme was simply one where returns to existing investors are paid from the capital contributed by new investors.
Wouldn't that be a pyramid scheme?
A Ponzi scheme is centralized, with new participants joining directly with the scheme, and proceeds paid out to all existing participants.
As structured, this sticker scheme is a Ponzi scheme, since it's all centralized and you don't do anything besides send in your sticker and postage.
Why.
Personally I love it.
In case anyone was curious, mailing cash is legal according to this Snopes Article - www.snopes.com/legal/postal/sendcash.asp Can't find a current USPS FAQ, though.
Who would think this was not legal, and why?
Before reading the Snopes page just now, I would probably have said that I was pretty sure mailing cash was technically illegal. But thinking about it now, I have no idea where I got that idea from.
Which of the examples is considered to be a "startup"? The featured one is a 15-year-old spinoff of a public company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The second one is an actual public company with 4000 employees. The third one might be sort of a startup, but they have over 100 million dollars in VC backing.
For the sake of simplicity, we're using it as a blanket term for "tech company" and are happy with stickers for anything from a tiny 1 person company to a behemoth like Google (or an event like a hackathon).
Why not ask for "one or more" stickers? (Still promising only two total in return). If you're not being purist about the ponzie part, that is. Then you might be able to carry it on a little longer.