i have a friend(woman) who wants to do the envelope stuffing thing at home like the ads you see in the paper.
i believe this to be a scam, but she wont listen because im guessing. anyone have any experience (goo or bad) with these companies?

 

theres always a catch...

"maybe you didn't see that decimal point" we got into something like this... delivering newspapers, the free ones that you always kick around, for $.002 per paper...

 

About 10 years ago I thought to myself, "what the heck", and sent my fifteen dollars in. What I got back was a list of "companies" that used the envelope stuffing program. I spent about $40 on stamps and wrote offer letters to the addresses.

Over the next year I got:

1. Letters back with red stamps from the post office with - no longer at this address, this firm is being investigated, and so on. It got to be kind of fun seeing all the differen't ways the post office could say FRAUD.

2. I'd get responses back saying, "Please send, (anywhere from $15 to $500), and we will send you a guarantied list of employers. Some of the envelopes had the exact same form letter in them! They all had one thing in common - they wanted my money to get things started. I figured the cost of the stamp was all they were getting from me.

I sent 100's for the things off and got 100's back. I did it for fun. Stuffing envelopes is an automated process that just can't be done, by hand, for profit, (and it sure wouldn't be fun!). I'd always thought that it was a scam, so I checked it out. It really makes me mad to think that these scammers actually get people to send money. They must, it's been going on for years.

There are letter stuffer jobs. One of my ex's got a temp job doing it during an election year. The canditates would hire these offices to do mailings to various areas of the state.

My ex would go in and load reams of mechanically signed letters into a machine that would fold them. It was hooked to another machine that would stuff them into pre-addressed envelopes.

Her job was to make sure everything was queing right with the right letter being stuffed into the right envelope and to take care of the postage stamps afterword. Sometimes she would do over 10,000 letters in a shift. I've never seen anyone so happy the elections were over.

 

Only person that's gonna make any money is the person selling the scam.

With all the automated stuffing machinery, why would anyone need envelope stuffers?

 

Tell yer friend not to waste her time or money. Our local T.V. newstation did a report on these envelope stuffing ads a few months ago. The ad said to send them $$ to find out how to make money stuffing envelopes. The news investigators found out that the person that placed the ad would receive the $$ and then tell the inquiring parties to do the same that he/she did and place their own ad in the paper that tells people to send them $$ to find out how to make money stuffing envelopes. There might be legitimate envelope stuffing positions out there, but I wouldn't gamble on it.

Your friend might do better by selling stuff on Ebay. It helps me when I need some extra $$.

 

Beware of envelopes! I got this a while back, most say it's not true Snopes discounts it as well. But, you never know . . .

A woman was working in a post office in California. One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge. That very day the lady cut her tongue on the envelope. A week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue. She went to the doctor, and they found nothing wrong.

Her tongue was not sore or anything. A couple of days later, her tongue started to swell more, and it began to get really sore, so sore, that she could not eat. She went back to the hospital, and demanded something be done. The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue, and noticed a lump.

He prepared her for minor surgery. When the doctor cut her tongue open, a live roach crawled out. There were roach eggs on the seal of the envelope. The egg was able to hatch inside of her tongue, because of her saliva. It was warm and moist.

This is a true story reported on CNN - Andy Hume wrote:

Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You wouldn't believe the things that float around in those gum applicator trays. I haven't licked an envelope for years.

To All: I used to work for a print shop (32 years ago) and we were told NEVER to lick the envelopes. I never understood why until I had to go into storage and pull out 2500 envelops that were already printed for a customer who was doing a mailing and saw several squads of roaches roaming around inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the envelopes. I think print shops have a harder time controlling roaches than a restaurant.

I always buy the self sealing type. Or if need be, I use a glue stick to seal one that has the type of glue that needs to be wet to stick.

 

Hmm.. Most roaches that I know of (not that I'm an expert) dont reproduce by laying little eggs you cant see that burrow into tounge paper cuts.

They have a disgusting little egg sack that they carry around off of the backs of their disgusting abodmens.

I also tried to do a biography on a CNN's Andy Hume to see if (s)he ever worked in an envelope plant. They have a Britt Hume, but no Andy, so no luck there.

-Dave...chasing a wild goose

 

thank you all so much for your posts. update! after further research i found exactly what you guys had. so my advice to her was "bite the bullet and get a real job." i live in vegas and jobs are pretty easy to come by here.

 

Nice due diligience...remember the old saying...If it sounds to good to be true, then it usually is

 

here is a deal you CAn believe
i need every FTE'r to send me 5 dollars
just drop it in a envelope and send it off tonight
what you will get in return 1st class mail
is a list of all the stuff i bought with the money
so hurry and send off your 5 dollars today

 

Sign me up who do i fill the check out to,or is it cash only? Ive always wanted to do this!

 

P&B sells letter folding and collating machines for $1200. I can not see much profit in doing it manually. I even had a 12 page manual collating machine for my small mail order business. Way faster then by hand.

I have researched many of those folding letters and clipping coupons schemes. They all have one common factor, send in $30-$40 to get your "starter" kit. All scam.

Always ask, why do they need me instead of hiring someone locally ... because all of the locals have been sucked dried or they try to avoid AG complaints by ripping people off out of state.