This Instructable covers the time-honored art of sending refuse back to junk mailers in their own pre-paid business reply envelopes. What’s interesting, though, is in the comments on the Instructable one guy says that you can take the business reply envelopes and tape them to boxes and the post office will accept it! This greatly increases the scope, range, and weight of the objects that you can send back to junk mailers. Broken lightbulbs, bricks, this week’s trash, your imagination is the limit. (Don’t forget to visit optoutprescreen.com first to get yourself permanently off 95% of junk mail lists). [More]
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Princess Cruise Lines Requires Death Certificate To Get Off Junk Mail List
By 10.17.07
From The Portland Mercury:
Getting Off Mailing Lists Is Fun
By 7.16.07
We sat down to try to get our name off six mailing lists today. It’s really annoying to have all this crap clutter our mailbox. When we get it, we literally walk from the mailbox to the recycling bin. Dump. Nice marketing, guys.
It’s Hard To Stop The Catalogs
By 12.28.06
Deb gets a lot of a catalogs. Sometimes two of the same, as she and her husband have two different last names.
Reduce Junk Mail By Returning To Sender
By 12.19.06
Cut down on your junk mail with this tip from reader Jake:
Atlas Shrugged Junk Mail
By 10.3.06
God bless our obsessive-compulsive readership. Without you guys, we wouldn’t have entertaining MP3s of foul-mouthed CSRs cursing your mother, let alone an answer to the question “how much junk mail does our average reader get in 9 months?”
Direct Marketing Justifies Its Existence
By 8.29.06
Tucked into an otherwise mundane WP column about Junk Mail Awareness Week (October 1st, mark your calendars!) are some fabulous quotes from the Direct Marketing Association on how junk mail saves America. (Thanks to Ian!)
Take Me Off Your Damn List, UNICEF!
By 5.16.06
Trixare4kids is one of those zen consumerists who can sit in the lotus position for hours, a telephone nuzzled into the crook of her neck, as she hypnotically murmurs chakras to herself and tries to get herself removed from mailing lists. She’s pleasant, perky and polite with CSRs, but she is adamant in getting her name off the labeled stickers a thousand companies a year slap on half a tree and smash through her mail slot.
A Ripped-Up Credit Card App Still Works
By 3.10.06
Rob Cockerham at Cockeyed.com tells us how we should all get paper shredders.
USPS Delivers More Junk Mail Than Love Letters
By 3.2.06
If you’ve noticed your snail mailbox getting fuller, it’s not because you’ve become more popular, because odds are, you haven’t.
Countrywide Mortgage Identity Theft: We Can’t Find the Crime
By 12.21.05
We haven’t been able to determine to what degree the identify theft letters from mortgage companies are legit. But thanks to an astute reader ‘fotonique,’ we’ve discovered what might be the source of the letters being sent out from other mortgage companies, including ABN-AMRO.
