Broad national support
I think there would be broad public support for a National Do Not Mail Registry. I should also point out what I do with junk mail:
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 (sic) industry.
Heh! I sicced myself.
March 9th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
Did you steal that from me????
I’ve been doing that ever since I had my first job out of college working in the marketing department of APC and noticed that someone did the same thing to them.
At one point I was also filling the envelops with a bunch of lead powder/sand I had lying around to weigh them down. I stopped that after the anthrax attacks here in DC but still send the shreds back.
March 9th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
Yes, back in June of 03, i traveled time and went to the future and stole it from your blog, which didn’t exist in 03 🙂
March 9th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
Yeah, but I was thinking about it in 2003 . . . . . . . .
Plus, I am sure I posted about this habit on a gun board or two . .
Not that I am accusing you of stealing my idea, because a buddy who grew up in Knoxville whom I told about the types of weird mail we would recieve in response to our marketing gimmicks is the one who convinced me to do this to the credit card people.
March 9th, 2005 at 5:12 pm
wow that is fairly mean sprirtied and spitefull.
I kinda like it, though i am much to lazy to actually do it myself