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zombooyah posted:
12th of October, 2012
[photos of a red envelope with illustrations of highly stylized white ghosts. the envelope has a netflix logo in the center]
[photo of a similar envelope with the illustration of a crow on a black, leafless tree]
I got a couple of movies from Netflix and they had these cool Halloween-themed mailers. Maybe I’m easily amused, but they’re kind of nifty!
somethingusefulfromflorida replies:
3rd of May, 2025
[two stills from The Incredibles]
Mr. Incredible looking up concerned.
Mr. Incredible clutching the bridge of his nose.
[end stills]
this sounds like when they had mail-rental
It only ended two years ago.
You say that like it wasn’t the original service offered by netflix
i mean that i feel like they do have an actual actual justifications for the disappearing mailers
cuz they don’t mail
I wonder how much of this was influenced by remote rural regions gaining access to satelite internet?
Look at the post date. It’s Oct of 2012.
yea, and the second one was may 3, <year of screenshot>
We used to use their mail-rental service a lot