rjk (11/25/82)
Help support the post office! When you get junk mail with a postage-paid return envelope, return it! Empty, full, perfumed, spindled, mutilated, whatever. Randy King
jwp (11/27/82)
Actually, you should return it with stuff out of other junk mail envelopes (and, of course, save the current junk mail's contents to send out in future junk mail envelopes). [It is, I hope, needless to say that this should only be done with those envelopes that have the return postage already paid. Those that don't have return postage paid are designed to ensure the jobs of current and future trash collectors, not postal personnel.] John Pierce Society for the Preservation and Cross Fertilization of Junk Mail
ucbvax:upstill (11/29/82)
Even better (a suggestion due to Abby Hoffman): take that postage-paid return card, tape it to a brick and drop it in a mailbox. The PO has to deliver it, the other end has to pay for it. Steve
laurir (11/29/82)
With re: taping business reply cards to bricks and mailing them: Postal service employees are allowed to exercise their common sense. Those adorned bricks go into the circular file. The net effect is that, if enough people do this, postage rates will go up sooner to defray the increased cost of hauling away the garbage and picking up the worker's compensation insurance (dropping a brick on your toe is no laughing matter, even in a post office). Inconvenience to the junk mailer: nil.
markm (11/30/82)
Better yet, fill in those cards with the names of fictitious people.