I'm generally more comfortable with DELETE/POST, I think. 

From the [http status code spec for 202](http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html): "The entity returned with this response SHOULD include an indication of the request's current status and either a pointer to a status monitor or some estimate of when the user can expect the request to be fulfilled." I wonder if we should set the timestamp to the date things should/will be deleted rather than the day the request was made (and then return it)? Of course, if we do that, we'd have to put it in the configuration rather than hardcoding it (which might not be a bad thing).