In a way it was double-dipping. However, that was the edge that they provided over Netflix, considering that Blockbuster has historically charged more for the same level of service from Netflix.

The advantage was that you could watch more movies while waiting for the new ones to arrive through the mail. That advantage has now been reduced to having quicker access to movies in the short-term only, since it now delays the ones you would receive through the mail.

I wouldn't mind the change in the rules, except that Blockbuster is notorious for intermittently and inconsistently sitting on the returned movies for a week or so before mailing your next ones out. Being able to exchange them locally in the meantime took the sting out of that. Now it's only going to make it worse.

I recall someone mentioning at a previous job that there was an announcement about removal of an rdist that had been in use for quite some time. It was called 'prints'.

The memo referred to the rdist formally known as 'prints'... :)