Public Service Announcement
I am a petty man. All this Do Not Call stuff reminded me of how much I hate junk mail. I thought I’d share just how petty I am.
Each time I get a credit card application or some other variety of junk mail that has a postage paid return envelope, I take all contents of the envelope and I rip them to shreds. I then place the shreds into the postage paid return envelope (which will be paid by the company sending me the junk mail), attach a note that says Please Recycle and place it in the mail box.
Every time someone sends me junk mail with a return envelope, it costs them 26 to 37 cents. I encourage everyone to do the same. If all 300 million of us did it, we could bankrupt the junkmail industry.
June 30th, 2003 at 7:05 pm
That’s brilliant!
June 30th, 2003 at 9:58 pm
I take my heavy-duty siccors, cut up an old issue of a magazine like Guns & Ammo, and stuff the envelope until I have to tape it shut. Then I drop it in the mail. Paper is heavy. I particularly like doing this with those “please help us save the environment/whales/whatever” pleas from the Sierra Club and organizations of their ilk.
June 30th, 2003 at 11:21 pm
I’ve been doing this for years, and I just a while back found out that my co-blogger (and real world best-man) Tuba Boy does the same.
I smell a poll…
July 1st, 2003 at 10:13 am
The revolution starts!
March 9th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
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