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>> well, baby micah got quite a kick out of his dad's rejection letters and actress alyssa milano tweeted about them and the video has gone viral with over 350,000 you tube hits. i was one of them last night. baby micah and his parents join us this morning from st. louis. good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having us. >> marcus, you were opening the mail and you got -- you are currently in the market for a professorship job somewhere across this great land of ours. you got a rejection letter, pick up the story from there. >> so i got the mail as i usually do. micah was sitting nex...

Mean spirited. and she is completely the opposite. >> well, police say the cage was used for storage and potentially harmful things like chemicals and motor oil and disruptive kids, i guess. the teacher could face child abuse charges. >> let's get steve perry on the phone. this one ought to be good. also, you might have a tougher time finding a post office over the next coming years. the postal service announcing more cuts. the goal is to close some 2,000 stations and branchs in 2011. they already have about 500 closings under way. postal service has been hit year after year with billions of...

>> this was millions of income for them. besides that variable rate things. we probably need to watch for other fees coming because they're going to make the money. >> not everybody is a profitable customer. they're cutting your limit. maybe you had a $5,000 limit. they don't have to give you notice. if you have a $2500 balance, now you're credit card is going to be hurt drastically because they cut your limit or cut the card off because you're not making them money. read the fine print. don't think anything that you get is junk mail. >> clyde, full of good information. again, it goes into eff...

Notice. >> is that going to come in that big old pamphlet? you get this thing that explains all the rules. >> now it's so key that you've got to read that stuff. you've got to read the fine print. don't think that junk mail is junk mail. open it up and look at it. they could slip in that 45-day notice and the next thing you know you've got a high interest rate and fees. >> people are going to be shocked when they see how long it will take them to pay these things off if you're paying the minimum. years, sometimes decades. >> exactly. when you go into the stores and think that 15% discount is g...

These were mailers that not only exploited people's knowledge of the actual census to get to you open it up and read it, these things also undermined the actual census. by the time people get their real census forms in the mail, you'd be less likely to open that up if the last time you got something that liked like an official census form it turned out to be political junk mail with questions about how evil communist obama is. because it was messing with the mandated census, legislation proposing to ban stuff like this passed the house and senate unanimously. the law was signed by president ob...