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Members Lounge => Non Bocking Chat => Topic started by: Nero on April 28, 2008, 11:23:53 AM
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You know those obnoxious "refinance your home" or credit card scams offers that you get in the mail? This is called direct marketing, where marketers use a reduced bulk postal rate to send entire forests of paper mail to you.
So this is something you can do in response.
Find a shoebox, or a storage bin, or any cardboard box you have laying around. Fill it up with bricks, big blocks of iron, or maybe cement. Tape the box up with everyday packaging tape. Use a junkmail's postage-paid envelope and tape it neatly to the top cover of the box. NEATLY. And mail it off. Envelope revenge!
A few days later, your package shows up at the junk mailer's location, and they have to pay for every cent of delivery. Once the cost outweighs the benefit, they will stop sending out direct mail marketing material. And that is my goal.
Doing this has the following beneficial side effects:
-Since these companies pay the post office, this lightens the load taxpayers need to pay to keep the post office operating
-This creates employment opportunities. The post office keeps cutting staff because of lack of buisness; this gives the post office a huge source of income from the credit card scam companies.
-This will lead to more cautious bulk mailing. Maybe these junk mailers simply don't know they are annoying people? Hopefully they will learn very quickly!
-This makes me laugh maniacly, like a cartoon supervillan.
-This saves trees. Once enough of us do this, the junk mail companies will stop sending us junk. Or at least they will be more discriminate about it. It will save trees and keep the landfills empty! Yay!
-If we do this enough, the USPS will make so much money, that they will lower postage costs.
You gotta love that!
next company thats stupid enough to send me junk mail may get an old mountainbike frame or something sent back to them :haha: :haha: :haha:
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and to think I was going to take the old wardrobe to the dump!
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Nice :biggrin:
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hello nero can i ask the :banghead: inside of you what are the green or red bars that are next to the names of people? :thumbs:
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The more you post the more bars you have, its just an inbuilt feature of the forums ;)
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thanks webmaster :biggrin:
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anybody think that we should drink the bock beer as a symbol of our bocking love and how much we want to bock all the time, but you got to drink sensably, and dont drink and bock not good :lol:
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no, i think super bock is more called for, and i drink and bock lots its never done me any harm look at my lovely self..
(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r90/thenelsenator/sloth-goonies.jpg)
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I bocked to a climbing club meeting tonight (at 99 squadron bar) not a clever idea, a few beers later and I have had to wander back! lol!! bocks + beer = fun/disaster/pain!
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You know those obnoxious "refinance your home" or credit card scams offers that you get in the mail? This is called direct marketing, where marketers use a reduced bulk postal rate to send entire forests of paper mail to you.
So this is something you can do in response.
Find a shoebox, or a storage bin, or any cardboard box you have laying around. Fill it up with bricks, big blocks of iron, or maybe cement. Tape the box up with everyday packaging tape. Use a junkmail's postage-paid envelope and tape it neatly to the top cover of the box. NEATLY. And mail it off. Envelope revenge!
A few days later, your package shows up at the junk mailer's location, and they have to pay for every cent of delivery. Once the cost outweighs the benefit, they will stop sending out direct mail marketing material. And that is my goal.
Doing this has the following beneficial side effects:
-Since these companies pay the post office, this lightens the load taxpayers need to pay to keep the post office operating
-This creates employment opportunities. The post office keeps cutting staff because of lack of buisness; this gives the post office a huge source of income from the credit card scam companies.
-This will lead to more cautious bulk mailing. Maybe these junk mailers simply don't know they are annoying people? Hopefully they will learn very quickly!
-This makes me laugh maniacly, like a cartoon supervillan.
-This saves trees. Once enough of us do this, the junk mail companies will stop sending us junk. Or at least they will be more discriminate about it. It will save trees and keep the landfills empty! Yay!
-If we do this enough, the USPS will make so much money, that they will lower postage costs.
You gotta love that!
next company thats stupid enough to send me junk mail may get an old mountainbike frame or something sent back to them :haha: :haha: :haha:
You got this from here didn't you:
http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/
Classic stuff, shame I don't get much junk mail ;D
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That's classic, i wish i got junk mail just to try it :P
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nero your very funny but the face isnt that good come on now, dont over exaggerate :censored: :nana:
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Yeah I'm 16 and I've been offered life insurance from lots of random companies! Screw junk mail!
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now your in sky high you should perhaps think about getting some
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Might try that at work, all the questionaires they keep sending me, they just might get a nice big tin of oil through!!
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hex how about an old plane part?
as for me i live in the middle of no where and reading such junk is the only other thing i got to do :P
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Alot of the big components are serial numbered and tracked assets, so couldnt do it, although I have seen the odd aircraft mainwheel tyre out for scrap (they are about chest hight!) I shall see what I can do!!