Junk mail revenge: send back envelope with junk in it?

[her209]

Next time I'm going to send them a picture of Bush for payback.

 

[alkemyst]

I get a pre-approved credit letter about every 3 months from the same company saying my house has been reviewed and up to $100,000 is guaranteed.

I call and explain that's nice and all, but my house is sold and I think it's cool you'll let someone else secure my credit....let me know how much you can get me.

It gets me taken off the list for a few months....it's fun occasionally to just test their human relation skills.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: teddymines
................."Customer Tracking Code. Illegal use of this envelope is forbidden.".................

Is sending back junk illegal, or are they trying to intimidate people?...........

Imagine getting busted for this. You think they would come into your place of work and handcuff you?


Wonder what kinda time you'd get in the big house for this?

 

[AZdevil55]

Originally posted by:Ulfwald
I always send it back regardless of what is on the back

I have sent them coupons for free pizzas, advertisements for lawn maintenance, I even sent one of them an add from the yellowpages for a female escort service.
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LOL!!! I like this idea.

 

[vegetation]

Actually, this isn't quite true. They do in fact have to pay extra on return mailers that are overweight, but the PO wouldn't necessarily bill them for it. However, by not paying for the overage, they are committing postal fraud so nearly all companies will inevitably pay USPS for the extra cost.

Example:
Mastercard and the Post Office agree that 500,000 envelopes will be returned to Mastercard every year. The post office will then charge them $.20/envelope. Mastercard pays USPS 100,000$ to cover the next year.
You get a Mastercard "pre-approval" letter in the mail. You're pissed because it was your only piece of mail and you have no life so you decide to send back a transmission from a car. USPS has to go through the work of getting that tranny to Mastercard, while Mastercard is still paying $.20 for shipping that envelope. Mastercard gets the tranny, gives the USPS guy a dumb look, throws the tranny in the garbage and you have just waited both your time and USPS's time.

Nothing good has come from it. Just a waste of time.

Oh well, everyone needs a hobby.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: Amused
I remember reading about a guy who, instead of trying to minimize junk mail, made sure he got as much junk mail as he could. (Pictures showed he got pounds of it daily)

He then bought a machine that turned paper into tight, long burning logs and used them to heat his home in the winter.

Not a bad idea, if you ask me.

That doesn't sound healthy. Do you know how many chemicals are in paper? Especially when you have inks and such. Maybe if he burned it in a stove or something...but still, that can't be healthy.

The smoke doesn't go in the house... unless your fireplace or wood burning stove is defective. WTF do you think he did... had a nightly campfire in his living room?

 

[Kenji4861]

Originally posted by: Ulfwald
I always send it back regardless of what is on the back.

I have sent them coupons for free pizzas, advertisements for lawn maintenance, I even sent one of them an add from the yellowpages for a female escort service.

Haha, so kind of you!