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Earthcup
April 9th, 2002, 06:15 PM
Just got this and love it! Everyone needs one good and one evil deed to do every day! :devil:


When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment. Let them throw it away.

When you get those pre approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right?

Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes! Send an ad for your local dry cleaner to American Express. Or a pizza coupon to Citibank. (I especially liked this!)

If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can send it back empty if you want to just keep them guessing!

Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting all their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and best of all THEY'RE paying for it! Twice!

Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why they need to increase postage again!

Flaire-FireStar
April 9th, 2002, 08:19 PM
:lol: I got this awhile ago....Have done to AMEX so many times, and it's STILL funny. :rotfl:

Laiste
April 9th, 2002, 09:24 PM
This is great!! Can't wait to check my mailbox tomorrow!!:D

bluebear
April 9th, 2002, 09:43 PM
yes I highly recommend this proceedure. I've been doing it for a couple of years now but never thought about sending non-related junk back in the return envelope. What a great idea. How about sending them our garbage. Like an envelope full of stale coffee grounds or cigarette butts?????Everyone should be doing this.
Blessings
Bluebear

bluebear
April 9th, 2002, 09:53 PM
On a more serious note however, we should all be concerned about the abuse being caused by our postal system. Can you imagine the mountain of unwanted junk mail being thrown out every day. To say nothing of the outrageous postage rates. I f they would simply stop issueing bulk rate postage permits to advertisers then it would not be neccessary to raise rates. We (the common people) are paying for most of the advertisers mailing costs. If you agree with this, Write to your congressmen and senators and tell them so.
Blessings
Bluebear

Mythrel
April 10th, 2002, 01:34 AM
oh yea!!! I can't wait to get some more of the ever annoying junk mail!!!

Garnet
April 10th, 2002, 03:57 AM
What fun! I sent a bunch of 'pre-approved' stuff back. Citibank got Capitol One's drek, I stuffed Discover Card's paper into an AmEx Platinum Card envelope; I just mis-matched the applications & envelopes. Everyone's getting one of those annoying gevalia kaffe ads I've been getting in everything.
On the other hand, Waldenbooks has done something that's pleased me. I belong to their Reader's Club (10% discount & a $5 gift certificate for each $100 you spend for $10 a year memebership). The gift certificates used to come in an envelope stuffed with ads & a thank-you letter. Recently the chain has switched to sending the gift certificates in postcard form & cutting down the wasted paper by 400% or more. I have to find out how to send an 'attaboy'.

xjsjaglvr
April 10th, 2002, 10:25 AM
Well the only ones I don't just throw away are the ones that ask for return if undeliverable. Most are never returned, those that are clear their lists at little cost to them. What I do is tape each one securely to a brick. I have a large number in the back yard. They have to pay the postage for that brick to be sent back to them! They very quickly put you on a list of crazies not to be mailed anything, the same list that they put deceased and others on. The industry sells this list to other marketers. Mailings cost a lot of money so every one that they don't have to make saves them. Hey fight the system and have fun doing it.
Jag

HallsOfAvalon
April 10th, 2002, 12:45 PM
LOL, I love it. I will be sending some stuff out today. What a great idea.