Unwanted snail mail

[roger black]

Sorry Emery,
Deceased doesn't work even when it's true.
Roger

 

[hdavis]

>
>Have you guys noticed how much the post office is charging for "Business
>Repy Mail"? It was $2.80 for each accepted piece, last time I checked.

BRM can be pretty cheap if the indicia is set up right. The PO doesn't give
mailers the opprtunity to examine the mail before they receive it, so count
on them paying for it. Just not a lot of $$

The DMA also can refer you to a centralized list that mostly keeps you off
the junk mail lists. Most marketers will drop you from their lists if you
register. OTOH, the local delivery mail is not excapable - they just do a
route drop.

Henr

 

[john dolan]

Emery, et al,
> Ed - I have been known to stuff all the flyers including the envelope
> it came in into the return envelope and mail it back to them if they
> have a postage free reply. I write on the original envelope "TAKE ME
> OFF YOUR MAILING LIST". I want them to know who is returning the crap
> at their expense so that perhaps they will take me off the list.

Have you guys noticed how much the post office is charging for "Business
Repy Mail"? It was $2.80 for each accepted piece, last time I checked.
One would think that this method would work, but the secret is to make it
look like a real reply, so it is accepted and paid for. The problem
comes if the company is so big the receiver of your reply doesn't know or
care who sent out the mailing. I would be tempted to zerox a standard
letter with my name and address on it, and the suggestion that the VP of
Marketing will get a tally of when and how much this is costing his
company and that the sales people are obviously trashing my letter and
costing big bucks.
- --
"I do whatever my Rice Krispies tell me to..." John said, from inside a
1974 Glacier.

 

[richard bachert]

Ed, I do the same -- but ALWAYS include a piece of radical political
propaganda. Like some of my tracts on getting rid of the income tax and IRS
with the national retail sales tax.
Dick 75 PB in Atlanta

>
>When we receive unwanted snail mail and the same has a stamped return
>envelope, I make sure the envelope is empty and does not have my name on it,
>I then seal it and put it in the mail post or post office.
>
>Maybe someday they'll take me off some of these stupid mailing lists.
>
>Ed Lubo
>75 Landau
>New Jersey
>

 

[dave1]

>envelope, I make sure the envelope is empty and does not have my name on
it,
>I then seal it and put it in the mail post or post office.

This works well for those annoying cards stuffed into magazines too. Just
drop them in the mail. The recipient has to pay the postage. If they
receive enough blank ones, maybe they will quit cluttering up our lives
with extraneous paper....

Dave
73 Sequoia