Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I was interviewed about the Tohoku disaster Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.221.176.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301561269 28190 127.0.0.1 (31 Mar 2011 08:47:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:47:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i39g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.221.176.51; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169822 On Mar 31, 4:13=A0pm, chuckers wrote: > On Thursday, March 31, 2011 3:32:59 PM UTC+9, The 2-Belo wrote: > > Now that they've instituted a bank account withdrawal system to make it= more > > painless and keep it in the background, I figured they'd reduced the nu= mber of > > collectors. I've got to think that's been less of a financial burden on= them. If the uptake is high enough sure. Is there a discount or some other incentive for people who actually watch tv to take up hikiotosu etc? > I believe they did, in fact, get rid of the people that came around every= other month (or whatever) for collections. =A0They still send people aroun= d to find new blood, however. They might still come round often, but I'm rarely home between lunch and about 4am, and often travel (sometimes for work, mostly for mild debauchery) on weekends. However I almost always get a call or visit after I renew a visa or update anything on my ARC.