max / makenotwork

Ratify the monthly mail cap numbers Flat 25,000 a month at every tier, 5,000 with no active subscription, warning band at 0.8 of the effective cap. Numbers unchanged, so nothing in the code or at boot behaves differently; what changes is that they are no longer placeholders waiting on a pricing call. Flat rather than tier-scaled: tier decides only how readily an increase is granted, which keeps the whole mechanism on the application path and the pricing page to one line. Held at 25,000 rather than raised. The framing the decision inherited was cap times unit cost against tier revenue, and that only binds if creators sit at the cap, which is the thing the design exists to make never happen. Cost is set by the average send volume; the cap bounds blast radius from a compromised account, and the one-broadcast-per-day limit already bounds the daily damage. Postmark's marginal rate is roughly $0.70 to $0.82 per 1,000, so a creator at the cap costs about $20 against Basic's $16, reachable only by someone already in a conversation with us. Leaves one thing open, filed separately: tiers.md offers 10,000 recipients per send as a floor, which against a 25,000 monthly cap is reachable about two and a half times a month. The two bounds were designed apart and only one of them is on the pricing page. GoingsOn mnw-server 7cf9e855.