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11-05-2012, 10:24 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 6,513
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Help save the trees
Ban political mailers. I must have been sent the better part of 100 of those in the last 30 days.
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11-05-2012, 10:27 AM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: NoVA
Posts: 1,302
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I live in VA and voted in the Republican primary and get tons of them as well, that and they some how got my cell phone number. GEERRR
Just another reason I'm voting Gary Johnson to stick it to the idiots running the republican party right now. Hopefully they will be kicked out and better minds installed.
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11-05-2012, 10:33 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: S.C.
Posts: 16,286
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I'd just be happy to add them the the do not call list.
And the USPS needs the $$.
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11-05-2012, 10:45 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Richmond, TX
Posts: 8,388
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They should be charged full price instead of bulk mail rates as it would help the USPS.
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11-05-2012, 10:47 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: CA
Posts: 7,722
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I agree, what a waste. I throw them into the recycling without even looking.
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"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross." ---Sinclair Lewis
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11-05-2012, 11:21 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 14,524
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Need to break a few forests to make a stimulus. Those trees being turned into mailers created jobs.
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“He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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11-05-2012, 12:06 PM
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Super Moderator
Off Topic
Join Date: Mar 2000
Posts: 92,001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jaskalas
Need to break a few forests to make a stimulus. Those trees being turned into mailers created jobs.
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i do wonder how much election spending contributed to GDP growth over the last couple months
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11-05-2012, 12:11 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Morrisville, PA
Posts: 7,791
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GDP is what, $15 trillion? and I think the total spending of the campaigns was $2 billion, so that's 0.013%. Add in the superpacs, maybe it gets to 0.03%?
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11-05-2012, 12:13 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 16,061
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collect them and stick em all in your neighbors mail box.
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"Under my plan, energy prices would naturally skyrocket" - Barrack Hussein Obama.
gas was $1.84 a gallon prior to obama inauguration. The price of ALL goods and services (food) are tied to the price of transportation energy.
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11-05-2012, 12:13 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 4,103
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With every political mailer you get, if there is an envelope included, tear up their ad and mail it back to them at their expense. They'll get the message soon. Besides, it's fun to screw with them.
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11-05-2012, 12:34 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Olathe, KS
Posts: 6,565
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I throw away easily 99% of the mail i get. Mail is a dying breed (outside of packages)
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"A mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul" - Eddie Vedder
Political Correctness: A doctrine which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
Mike Gayner: Partisanship is the most retarded aspect of politics because it forces you to leave your brain at the door.
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11-05-2012, 12:37 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Cornfield in Iowa
Posts: 4,060
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Quote:
Originally Posted by soulcougher73
I throw away easily 99% of the mail i get. Mail is a dying breed (outside of packages)
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"The trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher
Molon Labe
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11-05-2012, 12:38 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 10,749
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They should ban political TV ads too. By the time election day rolls around I wish they were all dead, democrats and republicans alike.
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11-05-2012, 12:46 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 6,651
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bignateyk
They should ban political TV ads too. By the time election day rolls around I wish they were all dead, democrats and republicans alike.
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Yes, they need to ban these idiotic ads and letters
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11-05-2012, 01:09 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Mar 2001
Posts: 15,636
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Quote:
Originally Posted by xBiffx
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So, how many people have you gotten to sign? 
I've been annoyed with all the political flyers I've received in the mail lately too, not to mention there are three registered voters in my household so it ends up being 3x whatever flyer happens to be sent.
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Quote:
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Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
Tomorrowned!!11!1!1!
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11-05-2012, 01:17 PM
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Elite Member
Join Date: Nov 1999
Posts: 49,468
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I get an importand piece from democrats telling me how to vote.
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The above is probably just my usual sarcasm and in no way reflects my real opinion (and,or) may include subtleties of sufficient rarity as to appear to the unsuspecting like total gibberish. It may not be so much a matter that I'm far out, but rather that you have never been anywhere.
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11-05-2012, 01:17 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 14,524
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bignateyk
They should ban political TV ads too. By the time election day rolls around I wish they were all dead, democrats and republicans alike.
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How are they supposed to reach the independent, undecided voters in swing states?
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“He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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11-05-2012, 02:04 PM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 8,447
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The post office needs the money. I don't think that such mailings should be restricted to some arbitrary date before the election. I would not be opposed to charging an extra fee for political/advertisements to support local paper recycling routes though.
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