Mystery in aisle 3! Rubio’s official stationery winds up in discount store

[kpete]

“I was going through stacks of boxes of different things,” he recalled. “So I picked up these envelopes, and I looked at the return address and thought, ‘This is kind of odd.’”

Ingram had spotted one box of 500 business-letter envelopes stamped with the return address of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, along with a clear warning: “Official Business.”

The carton’s side carried a “Senate Stationery Room” sticker and a bar code. But there was no hint of how or why the official business stationery of a U.S. senator ended up on the shelf of an Independence store.

“I thought, ‘How’s this being sold here?’ The taxpayers have probably paid for this once,” Ingram said.

The envelopes, which Ingram purchased for less than $5, did not carry Rubio’s signature, which would have allowed the user to mail the envelopes postage-free under the franking privilege.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/12/3607997/senators-stationery-found-in-independence.html#storylink=cpy
http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/15363-judy-kurtz

[progressoid]

1. One possibility is they are rejects from the printing company.

They may have been slated to be destroyed but someone sent them to the discount store anyway. I once bought about 500 pens (with various names printed on them) from a thrift store that were rejects. Pens worked fine, but the printing was a little sloppy.

I also knew someone that took home other such items home from a printing company. These things happen.

[malthaussen]

2. Yeah, either that, or...

... Mr Rubio is really strapped for cash.

-- Mal

[WI_DEM]

3. he has lots of financial problems--maybe he sold them?