Return-Path: Delivered-To: diana@transocean.com Received: from vps.transocean.com by vps.transocean.com (Dovecot) with LMTP id afnqCJSDUViHNgAAInt2oQ for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:38:28 -0800 Return-path: Envelope-to: diana@transocean.com Delivery-date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:38:28 -0800 Received: from [69.4.89.16] (port=36870 helo=willyoupresstheputton.com) by vps.transocean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1cHDVZ-0003sp-UO for diana@transocean.com; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 09:38:27 -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:34:04 -0500 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Mime-Version: 1 Message-Id: Reply-To: "Michelle Richardson" From: "Michelle Richardson" Subject: Claim your 50.00 Sears Card. We need just a few minutes of your time to help us improve your customer experience. Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.5 X-Spam-Score: 35 X-Spam-Bar: +++ X-Ham-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "vps.transocean.com", has NOT identified this incoming email as spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see root\@localhost for details. Content preview: Srd My father was the smartest, most cultured man I ever met. He read voraciously, he listened to classical music, and he was a student of fine art. He never got a piece of paper from a high school, though, signifying that he completed the required courses for a diploma. After his time in the Navy at the end of WWII, he used the GI Bill to go to art school. Not ???college???: A school where they???d teach anybody how to draw and paint and sculpt things. He took that practical knowledge and applied it the only place that hired art people: big retail stores that needed arty-types to build window displays. He started off at Filene???s in Boston and ended up at Sears. My folks were cheap Yankees from the get-go, compounded by the fact that they both grew up during the Depression. Everything we owned, from the paint on the walls to the Toughskins on my legs came from Sears because (a) it lasted forever and (b) it came with a 10-percent employee discount, and sometimes more if you could live with scratches and dents. Every appliance my mom owned looked like it had been plowed into by an Oldsmobile. Sears did all the service on my parents??? cars, and my first couple of cars. Not just tires and batteries in those days, but major services that you???d typically look for a dealership to provide. They???d do anything short of a transmission rebuild at least until the late 1980s, when I was working in the Sears Auto Center in Natick at the Budget Rent-a-Truck counter. Soon after, though, the wheels fell off of auto service at Sears. In June of 1992, California???s Department of Consumer Affairs charged that Sears defrauded consumers, and it moved to have the company???s license to repair cars revoked. The California Bureau of Auto Repair found during an 18-month undercover investigation of 27 Sears auto-repair shops, that ???unnecessary service and repairs were recommended 34 times. In some cases, undercover investigators posing as customers were charged as much as 550 for needless repairs,??? according to an article in the [...] Content analysis details: (3.5 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.0 URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists#dnsbl-block for more information. [URIs: willyoupresstheputton.com] -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.0 HTML_FONT_LOW_CONTRAST BODY: HTML font color similar or identical to background 0.7 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts 0.8 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] 0.0 HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_06 BODY: HTML has a low ratio of text to image area 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 2.0 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS 0.0 T_REMOTE_IMAGE Message contains an external image X-Spam-Flag: NO Srd
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My father was the smartest, most cultured man I ever met. He read voraciously, he listened to classical music, and he was a student of fine art. He never got a piece of paper from a high school, though, signifying that he completed the required courses for a diploma. After his time in the Navy at the end of WWII, he used the GI Bill to go to art school. Not ???college???: A school where they???d teach anybody how to draw and paint and sculpt things. He took that practical knowledge and applied it the only place that hired art people: big retail stores that needed arty-types to build window displays. He started off at Filene???s in Boston and ended up at Sears. My folks were cheap Yankees from the get-go, compounded by the fact that they both grew up during the Depression. Everything we owned, from the paint on the walls to the Toughskins on my legs came from Sears because (a) it lasted forever and (b) it came with a 10-percent employee discount, and sometimes more if you could live with scratches and dents. Every appliance my mom owned looked like it had been plowed into by an Oldsmobile. Sears did all the service on my parents??? cars, and my first couple of cars. Not just tires and batteries in those days, but major services that you???d typically look for a dealership to provide. They???d do anything short of a transmission rebuild at least until the late 1980s, when I was working in the Sears Auto Center in Natick at the Budget Rent-a-Truck counter. Soon after, though, the wheels fell off of auto service at Sears. In June of 1992, California???s Department of Consumer Affairs charged that Sears defrauded consumers, and it moved to have the company???s license to repair cars revoked. The California Bureau of Auto Repair found during an 18-month undercover investigation of 27 Sears auto-repair shops, that ???unnecessary service and repairs were recommended 34 times. In some cases, undercover investigators posing as customers were charged as much as 550 for needless repairs,??? according to an article in the New York Times. It initiated a nationwide scandal at the time, and other states jumped on the bandwagon. New Jersey, in particular, found that the shops were providing selling unnecessary repairs. Officials launched investigations in New York and Illinois, but found no particular irregularities. It marked the end of the line for Sears as an employer of mechanics. From then on out, it shifted auto centers to just provide tires and batteries, and even those services are pretty thin on the ground today.
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