Rebates and the demon within

So I was cleaning my room today, found something mysterious in a bag...it was a verizon bag. Turns out I had a rebate from a while back to send out. I checked the date and found out that the day the rebate ends is tomorrow. Figured I would check online to see if I could do a pre-submmsion thing. Apparently not, even though its suppose to be at their door at the latest tomorrow.
I think we have to rebel against mail in rebates, I mean Office Max has slowly stopped doing their little mail rebates and I'm actually buying more stuff their because of this.

Homework assignment for the readers:

1. What is your opinion of rebates in general?

2. What is your opinion of mail-in-rebates and should companies stop them?