I don’t know about you all, but on an average day I get 2 pieces of political “vote for me” email, it got me to thinking about the amount of time, manpower, energy and cost that goes into this.. I am by no means a mathematician, and have asked a few people to help me with some of the figures.. they are not mathematicians either, so.. please correct me if I am wrong….but the numbers are staggering..

I checked a few statistics on line, to see about “not for profit postage” on average it costs 40% less than the regular joe schmo.. a regular piece of mail would than cost a NFP about .16 cents.. are ya with me?

The number of homes in the US is about 50,000,000 - again, coming from online stats, so if the numbers are not completely accurate, my sincere apologies..

If you have that many homes that receive only 1 piece of, “my opponent is a jack ass” solicitation and you should vote for me…

We are talking, $ 8,000,000.00 - I do believe that to be 8 million dollars..

Now, I don’t know whether or not your average American business receives these emails either, so figure that in too.. and we all know that we don’t get just one piece of this mail on a daily basis, it’s much higher than that..

So let’s go with the amount of people in the US… 301,139,947.00 - over 300 million as of 2007, again, pulled it off line, just to see the figures..where in an economic downslide why?

If each person in the US, receives one piece of this mail, the amount in postage alone is what..you do the math..somewhere in the range of 481 million??

If I am wrong, I am wrong, but the numbers are staggering.. and that doesn’t include the cost of printing the materials….