[net.misc] Junk Mail Revenge

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.