Shepard
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The map replacement project is expected to take two years and cost a total of $500,000 -- including labor and production
Dear Mr. Pesaturo,
If you're reading this, then first of all, congratulations. Unless one of your aides has found this, printed it out, and placed it on your desk next to the morning comics, then I must say that I am pleased and slightly befuddled that you are, in fact, reading it. Even if you are, however, perusing a printed-out version next to your morning comics, then please give my kudos to your thoughtful staff member.
Second, I hope you will hastily register on this website (www.archboston.org if you are reading a print-out) and PM (that means "private message") me. Why should you do this? Because I can personally do this job for you for 1/10th the price - that's $50,000 - and still run to the bank laughing. I'll also do it in about two weeks - or 1/50th the amount of time you've scheduled for this. We'll both feel like we got a great deal. I won't reveal my magical methods, but let's just say, between you and me, that it might involve printing and copying maps and placing them into frames that I can buy at a newflangled low-cost store that rhymes with IPEA. I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I'm certainly not afraid of breaking my nails, so installing these would not be the immense undertaking that it would be to your staff, whose time is anyway better spent doing the sunny job they do of assisting customers and maintaining your stellar and fail-proof infrastructure. Please consider this proposal. After all, two years from now, the Silver Line will no doubt have expanded to involve all-manner of exciting new rapid transit options, such as taxi rapid transit lines, sidewalk rapid transit lines, and even the exciting new technologies that allow the great city of Boston to install private-autos-on-traffic-choked-highways rapid transit lines. Would you really want to go through your lengthy and expensive method of map-posting again as soon as you've finished? Of course not. That would be foolish.
Yours sincerely,
Shepard
President, Cost-Efficient Competence, Inc.
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