Travel Agent Dir. The message may violate state and federal laws. End of year inventory . . . As it happens, this newspaper does have an in-house travel agency, but our travel agents had nothing to do with that fax.
Federal regulators say thousands of such sales pitches arrive regularly in offices nationwide.
At least four, bearing various 800 numbers, landed in this office in September. One answer, of course, is that marketing is going on, and it's possible that no laws are being broken. But many such faxes violate state and federal laws. An FCC representative said the government was unable to collect the fine. Two faxes to my office mentioned cruises.