I’m sick of getting mail that I don’t want. Sure, I’ve signed up at the DMA. It helped. I’ve told the credit bureaus that we don’t want unsolicited offers. But we still get them. Three in the last two days.
So I have a new idea. I’m just going to return their postage-paid envelopes to them. No note, not even a return address, because frankly I don’t want to take the time. I’m just going to return the favor of sending them something useless. I know it doesn’t mean anything. It makes me feel better.
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5 responses to “No Postage Necessary”
jojomonkey,
Regarding the tire in the mail thing…that used to work in the mid-90s, but here is some information for you: According to Post Office Domestic Mail Manual code 8.4.6, “BRM may not be used for any purpose other than that intended by the permit holder, even when postage is affixed. In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.”
Many people send bricks back, hoping they will get the junk mail sender good. But unfortunately, it is hope and nothing else. I photocopy articles from magazines and send them back. At least it will get sent back to them and maybe they’ll read it (it’s retired racing Greyhound adoption mags). I love my houndie and want others to learn about them.
I do the same – put a note. But my most recent envelope had my sending address printed in the upper left corner – so it seems that it may be standard to see your address pre-printed on the envelopes – thus making it traceable back to you.
I did see something on the web where a person took a big box, managed to fit a really old and smelly car tire into it, sealed the box and taped on the no postage necessary envelope to the side. apparently, the whole box was sent back w/ car tire to sender 🙂
I’ve also joked by putting a card in the envelope saying that this card has been touched by my hands and my hands have touched my butt – then on the back saying ‘just joking’. 🙂
take care
I do this too. Sometimes if I feel like wasting even more time I’ll also put the application or whatever in the envelope, but instead of filling it out, I just write something along the lines of “Stop sending me junk mail.”
You know, I actually considered that, but I decided that it wouldn’t be ‘right’. I’m not saying that sending them their own envelopes is exactly the right thing to do either, but sending them junk from someone else isn’t really going to send the right message either.
After all, they can’t help it that AOL (for instance) sends me junk. They can help it that they send me junk, and that’s what I’m after. Now if that doesn’t work, I may consider your suggestion. 🙂
But first, stuff the envelopes with all the junkmail you got that doesn’t have return envelopes.
The heavier the return envelope, the more postage the receiving company has to pay.
Paul