What to do with that useless mail you receive -

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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 chimney cleaner to American Express. Or a pizza coupon to Citibank. 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 to 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!

-Author unknown

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2002

Answers

Don't you all just love those subscription request cards that fall out of magazines or are stapled in the magazine? If everyone would just return them to sender blank, I bet the price of the magazine would drop in half! In the last issue of _________ I accumulated 15 cards! Yep, I'm annoyed with those cards interferring with my reading pleasure.

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2002

To: return to sender

I agree. I get rid of all that stuff before I even start reading the magazine.

-- Anonymous, February 19, 2002


Actually, those subscription cards are thrown away by the USPS if they are blank.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002

Barefoot, am I right in saying that junk mail is sent at a greatly reduced rate? Although you can't say regular mail subsidizes junkmail, you can say aomething pretty close to that, huh? I mean, if junk mail were to cost a bit more then maybe we consumers wouldn't have to put up with another postage increase.

Also, if postage weren't so expensive, I don't think e-mail would have become quite as popular as it is. Nothing like getting a nicely written letter on a fresh sheet of good notepaper, faint smell of expensive aftershave lingering. . . Ah! Those were the days!

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002


I have the way the magazine inserts keep the magazine from laying flat, so before I read any of those issues I toss them all away. Sometimes I even go through Newsweek and pull out all the full page ads that have no articles (looks like they were printed ahead of time, because the corresponding pages in the other half of the magazine are the same.)

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002


As I understand it, the latest postage increase is being done in such a way to give the bulk mailers a discount, so yes, junk mail goes at a reduced rate. and that rate is getting lower at the first class mailer's expense.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002

What's wrong with this picture??? We--WE--are paying a chunk of the cost for mail we don't want and, Barefoot says, we are going to be paying even more for it.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002

well then it's legal, we are paying for it anyway, so let's all pick a day, and have mailman call in sick, and we all return all the junk mail!!!!

(only joking, of course)

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002


of course you're only joking. I don't need to take a sick day for that.

-- Anonymous, February 20, 2002

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