Miles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126014168569179245.html?mod=yhoofrontSmart scam! and the U.S. mint made it possible!

 

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It just shows that some people are always looking for some good deal or extra edge and they're smart enough to find it. I wish I had thought of such a scheme.

 

And miles to go before I sleep.....

Always somebody workin' the system.

 

Just saw this posted in another thread the other day: Turning Coins Into Miles

There was a thread a while ago when the Mint was selling $1 coins at face value with the shipping deal to help urge people to use them in circulation:
Presidential rolls directly to the public at cost.

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YEP! Our government at work. Need I say more.

 

Quoting Robert Frost isn't allowed in these parts.

 

Is that a well traveled path I see before me, in your avatar? :kewl: :smile

 

I warned you. I'm putting up a fence between us neighbor.

 

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." John Locke

 

Now you go bringing the empiricists into it! I'll not fault you nor Locke for Immanuel Kant.

 

:smile

 

As for that path, that's a view my wife and I had of Central Park. It was just one of those moments.

 

It's beautiful!