dlr (11/29/82)
My method of dealing with the most offensive junk mailers is: wrap a brick in a brown paper shopping bag, tape the pre-paid card/envelope to the package, and mail the brick to the advertiser. Dave Rosik ihuxr!dlr
laurir (12/01/82)
Enough about taping business reply cards to bricks, they won't go any farther than the first post office. Here's a junk mail tactic that *really* works: Go to your post office and get a form 2150, "Notice for Prohibitory Order Against Sender of Pandering Advertisement in the Mails", fill it out, and file it. If the company for whom you file the form sends you *anything* after thirty days from the filing date, they are in violation of federal anti-pornography laws and can get fined &etc. The key to using this tactic is that "you may obtain an order prohibiting any further mail from anyone who has sent you an advertisement which you, in your sole discretion, consider to be 'erotically arousing or sexually provocative'". "Your sole discretion" means that if you say you find ads for leather wallets to be pornographic, nobody can argue with you. (Quote is from "A Consumer's Directory to Postal Services and Products", postal publication 201/Oct 1979, page 9, (c) USPS.) I've used this to stop delivery of a local weekly "shopper" newspaper which filled my PO box. Since the junk is placed in the boxes after the first class stuff, my Wednesday mail was invariably crushed by the paper. Had someone asked why I thought this paper was pornographic, I would have pointed them to the douche ads, but noone cared. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!teklabs!tekmdp!laurir)
pcmcgeer (12/02/82)
Does azure!laurir's submission mean that the Moral Majority could be tried under anti-porn laws if someone filed against them and they ignored it? That's a beautiful thought: Jerry Falwell in the dock of a federal court on a porn charge. Rick.