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Junk Mail
What's up with all the credit card companies. Not a day goes by without one or two letters from these guys. Is there a way to stop this. I mean just think of all the trees they cut down just for junk mail.
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They'd just bump your intrest up a tenth of a point, and come out even further in the black.
Unless you have a Capital One no hassle card with a fixed low apr
What's in your wallet?
mine? lint
Unless you have a Capital One no hassle card with a fixed low apr
What's in your wallet?
mine? lint
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A few years back my dad complained to the local Postmaster about all the junk mail. His reply, which sort of does make sense, is that bulk junk mail actually subsidizes the Post Office! Without the junk mail, first class postal rates would be significantly higher.
I also will use postage paid envelopes to return junk mail to the sender, usually junk from another company! Just remember this, you cannot use a postage paid envelope for any other purpose than to return it to the original addressee! Can't cross out the original mail address and send to another, that constitutes mail fraud.
I have an idea, that being the senders of junk mail should be required to include some cash to help pay for the disposal of their trash! Why should I have to pay to have their junk mail hauled off? What do you all thnk about this idea, however unworkable it might be...
I also will use postage paid envelopes to return junk mail to the sender, usually junk from another company! Just remember this, you cannot use a postage paid envelope for any other purpose than to return it to the original addressee! Can't cross out the original mail address and send to another, that constitutes mail fraud.
I have an idea, that being the senders of junk mail should be required to include some cash to help pay for the disposal of their trash! Why should I have to pay to have their junk mail hauled off? What do you all thnk about this idea, however unworkable it might be...
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Hey.You just give me a good use for my junk mail.I didn't think of sending it back.cool.
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Re: Junk Mail
What's up with all the credit card companies. Not a day goes by without one or two letters from these guys. Is there a way to stop this. I mean just think of all the trees they cut down just for junk mail.
I've always wanted to tape a brick or a 2x4 to one of those postage paid return envelopes just for fun; I wonder how much that will cost them. It will also be funny to hear the thing land in the bottom of the mailbox
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Re: Re: Junk Mail
Originally posted by CowboyBilly9Mile
I've always wanted to tape a brick or a 2x4 to one of those postage paid return envelopes just for fun; I wonder how much that will cost them. It will also be funny to hear the thing land in the bottom of the mailbox
I've always wanted to tape a brick or a 2x4 to one of those postage paid return envelopes just for fun; I wonder how much that will cost them. It will also be funny to hear the thing land in the bottom of the mailbox
That frosted my cake, until I noticed their postage paid return envelope. I filled everything out, sealed up the envelope, and glued it to a solid concrete block (which I had nicely wrapped in heavy brown paper). Must have weighed 10 or 15 pounds. The clerk at the post office kinda raised his eyebrow, but he didn't say anything.
Good news is, to this day the Army has never asked me to participate in another survey.
P.S. As an afterthought, I wished that I had glued the form itself to the block, so that they would have had to file the whole thing.
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I love it! I would hope that a 2x4 would cause the company to incurr some unplesant shipping costs due to the size. I'd also like to see the look on the face of the people in the office as the mailman is carrying in the object
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Get this, we have lived at our current residence for just over six years now. At least once or twice a week we get, credit card junk mail in the names of the people who used to live here before us. They moved to north Georgia when they moved from here. Now here is the real kicker. The husband died over a year ago and then the wife died early last year and we are STILL getting those annoying "YOU ARE PREAPPROVED" mail from credit card companies. We have tried the return to sender and several other things, but we still get them, so we just started throwing them away.
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Originally posted by paulv107
Get this, we have lived at our current residence for just over six years now. At least once or twice a week we get, credit card junk mail in the names of the people who used to live here before us. They moved to north Georgia when they moved from here. Now here is the real kicker. The husband died over a year ago and then the wife died early last year and we are STILL getting those annoying "YOU ARE PREAPPROVED" mail from credit card companies. We have tried the return to sender and several other things, but we still get them, so we just started throwing them away.
Get this, we have lived at our current residence for just over six years now. At least once or twice a week we get, credit card junk mail in the names of the people who used to live here before us. They moved to north Georgia when they moved from here. Now here is the real kicker. The husband died over a year ago and then the wife died early last year and we are STILL getting those annoying "YOU ARE PREAPPROVED" mail from credit card companies. We have tried the return to sender and several other things, but we still get them, so we just started throwing them away.
The brick idea is great. It reminds me of a story I heard on the news several years ago. It sem a person had some problems with a McDs and chucked a brick through the window after hours. It had a note taped to it that said "You deserve a brick today" McDs ad campaign slogan at that time was "You deserve a break today"