mp@ganehd.UUCP (Scott Barman) (03/18/84)
** To all who have recieved junk mail, please remember to tear whatever you get in half. I have had the misfortune of having someone go through my trash and sending off for whatever trash that has been advertised. It is sometimes hard to convince some of these jerks that you didn't order their cr*p. Also remember, you can refuse any mail sent to you; this includes junk mail. Just write REFUSED in big letters on the front, give it to you postman, and let the company pay for return postage!! Scott Barman ..!akgua!ganehd!coke!ugacsc!mp
andyb@dartvax.UUCP (Andy Behrens) (03/20/84)
> Also remember, you can refuse any mail sent to you; this includes > junk mail. Just write REFUSED in big letters on the front, give it to > you postman, and let the company pay for return postage!! It won't do any good. Third class mail won't get forwarded or returned. If you refuse it, the local post office will throw it out. -- Andy Behrens P.O. Box 24, East Thetford, Vermont UUCP: {decvax,linus,cornell,dalcs}!dartvax!andyb CSNET: andyb@dartmouth ARPA: andyb%dartmouth@csnet-relay
dougs@tekecs.UUCP (03/21/84)
One way to deal with that portion of one's junk mail that includes a
postage-paid return envelope is to tape the envelope (empty, of course)
to a brick, and drop it in the nearest mail box. If the junk mailers
get bricked enough times, it is no longer economical to mass-mail their
drivel. And if enough postal carriers get hernias, maybe their manage-
ment will be motivated to eliminate the problem. And if neither scenario
occurs, the junk-mailees (that's us) may have to escalate to cinder
blocks.
Doug Smith
{...!tektronix!tekecs!dougs}
ECS System Peripherals
Tektronix, Inc.
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ECS System Peripherals
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uiucuxc!paul Mar 23 22:48:00 1984
Re: Taping postage paid envelopes to bricks.
Won't do a bit of good. The local PO ashcans those as soon as they're
brought in from the dropbox. This is according to an uncle who's worked
for the PO for some twenty odd years.
Paul Pomes
uucp: {decvax,ihnp4,pur-ee,ucbvax}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!paul
US Mail: Paul Pomes, University of Illinois
1304 W Springfield, Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-333-6262wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (03/27/84)
Re returning Business-Reply mail taped to bricks: I've heard of this for years; undoubtedly the mailers know of it too. I have a hunch the USPS will toss out Business Reply mail taped to a brick; however, if the brick is WRAPPED, and the Business-Reply envelope or card is taped to the outside of this wrapping, it may well go through. If you pay attention to Business-Reply envelopes and cards, you will see that some have fine print around the permit number and suchlike that indicates the maximum weight that particular Business-Reply form will be good for -- the USPS will probably not deliver heavy objects over such weight limits, as they get paid on delivery and the permit holder has an out to avoid paying in this case. Note also that some explicitly say "Business-Reply CARD", as opposed to "Business-Reply MAIL" -- I think the former means that they are only obligated to pay the postcard postage plus Business-Reply surcharge. However, you will see the "card" imprint on envelopes, so I don't know what legal validity it has. Will Martin PS Where do you get those free bricks, anyway? :-) WM
ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (03/28/84)
I periodically get these unsolicited bags of mostly post-paid reply cards (sent to me off some mailing list from a magazine I subscribe to). My solution is to pull out all the ones that are post paid and drop them in the mailbox. I decided on this after one day I actually found something I wanted advertised on one of these postpaid cards. Unfortunately there was no place on the card to write in your name and address, one side was full add, and the other was the return address. -Ron
david@tekig.UUCP (David Hayes) (03/29/84)
One dastardly non-solution to junk mail is to take two of the sign and send cards and glue them together so there is a post paid address on BOTH SIDES!! Just putting a hitch in their get along... dave
wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (03/30/84)
An amazing coincidence! I just finished reading a short story based on this very subject! "All Things Come to Those Who Weight" by Robert Grossbach, 1980, in F & SF, reprinted in Asimov's LAUGHING SPACE. A tale of a scientist who invents a form of collapsium (super-dense matter) and stuffs an envelope with it, creating a thousand-ton return mailing to get back at his health-insurance company.