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Re:The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China an... by giarc on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:55AM (#23678147)
There was a popular blog post awhile ago where a guy wrote a script to buy a random item for $0.99 everyday. It would automatically get sent to his house and so he was always getting surprise deliveries since the script would decide what to buy.
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Re:The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China an... by tobylane on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:19PM (#23678996)
It was xkcd inspired, and now only the twitter feed lives on.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/576:_Packages

https://web.archive.org/web/20150116084115/http://www.urlesq...

https://mobile.twitter.com/trademe_xkcd576

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Re:The U.S. can now set its own rates for mail from China an... by sly010 on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:17PM (#23678975)
You might be remembering this: https://xkcd.com/576/
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