The mailbox contained:
- September & October 2008 issue of Cook’s Illustrated (Herbed Roast Chicken)
- Summer 2008 issue of Granta (Granta 102: The New Nature Writing) T.O.C.
- August 2008 issue of Sojourners (‘I have the health care I need. Shouldn’t everyone?’ Elizabeth Edwards on the moral outrage of 47 million Americans without health insurance – and what we can do about it.) T.O.C.
- August 2008 issue of SERVO (Look Ma, No Driver! 2008′s Long Beach Grand Prix included this resoundingly successful demo that robotic cars have no trouble running a race track!) T.O.C.
- August 2008 issue of Nuts and Volts (“Pimping” the Prius – Get up to 100 MPG with this hybrid hack) T.O.C.
- August/September 2008 Carvin Catalog
- A coupon from Virginia Furniture Market
- Coupons from Dell
- A subscription offer from the Skeptical Inquirer
- A subscription offer from The Douglass Report
- A subscription offer from the National Review
- A plea from the ACLU
- A plea from Barack Obama
- An offer from Klocwork
- An offer from Verizon
- An audiobook – Neil Gaiman’s American Gods