for your convenience

for your convenience
   provided ostensibly as a special service
   The pretence of giving you something extra when it is already in the price is mildly irritating:
    The notice said they were sanitized under infra-red and ultra-violet light for Koolman's protection and convenience, but I suppose anybody would get the same kind of towel. (Deighton, 1972)
   However, all is forgiven when you meet an unconscious pun:
    For your convenience — Sanitor tissue seat covers, (lavatory in Fall River, Massachusetts, May, 1981)

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