I knew someone at United that once offered to give me a tour of one of their data centers: "It is like a computer museum - we have one of everything." Hard to imagine that they would have problems as a result. United is a really, really bad airline.
Closest any company has come to a decent web version of Access is Intuit Quickbase. But it is priced for enterprise and not hobbiest. Lacks full SQL but can do some pretty amazing things. Also has reasonable REST-like API. I built a PoC data backend for an iPhone app really easily.
Based on my experience of working in the "junk mail" businesses I agree with you - the USPS had disdain for ALL customers, not just junk mailers. The certainly did not try to help in any way. I cannot imagine this quote being true. I want to defend them but cannot - postal mail is in secular decline but will survive as where you live will always be a useful key to your identity. Just get ready for change (and will take bigger ideas than Outbox to do it)
As the author, I meant no disrespect (and I often come across as ignorant through no fault but mine). My point was that the Promoted Posts draw a disproportionate amount of foreign traffic and only involving Likes.
The author here - yes, cr4zy, it seems to be isolated to Promoted Posts. I actually put two samples in the writeup. One is a contest and the other is just a status update. Both have the same problem. Furthermore, the contest entrants basically all seemed legit. It was only the Facebook Likes that seemed to be bot-ridden. If this were just freebie-chasing then I would think the non-contest posts would not be having the same issue.
Betting this will be down within 72 hours. I know a guy who did this years ago. The letter he got was not so polite (but I love it!). I don't think they ban them for the money, I think it is to make sure humans are doing the work because it shows real intent to make your flight. Their overbooking algorithms don't work so well otherwise...