Junk Mail Protest

Enii

Heard a thing on Pat Kenny. There is a worldwide protest on against unsolicited mail. Basically if you are sent any advertising for new credit cards or such like, that send a prepaid reply envelope, this campaign is asking you to either send the envelope back empty or fill it with all the junk literature that was sent to you and return it. If you are sending the lit., rip it up and remove the part with your name on it if you want to remain anonymous. Basically it is making the company pay for the getting rid of their own junk mail and also pay for the postage when it get returned to them.

What does everyone think?

I supose it will have very little impact unless it is taken up on a large scale.

KTRIC

Good idea, but what about all those stupid take-away menu's, religious news papers and other sh!te I get in the door EVERY day ???

Enii

I didn't realise you could recycle the envelopes, something to do with the gum on them or something? Does that Diarmuid Gavin fella say something on the Recycling ad? Maybe it is used envelopes.

Anyway i think I will give this protest a go and start sending back my freepost envelopes. It gives the postal service a boost too! Not going to send the envelope back empty though, am going to rip up the junk mail into tiny little messy pieces!!!

will see about getting myself off and mailing lists aswell....

daymobrew

Enii wrote:

I didn't realise you could recycle the envelopes, something to do with the gum on them or something?

Oxigen (with their green bins) don't take envelopes with clear plastic windows (http://www.oxigen.ie/faq.html) "as we are currently not recycling plastic."

I simply remove the plastic window and surrounding paper, to ensure I remove it all. Might as well salvage as much as possible.

seamus

I only receive about one piece of junk mail every two months from MBNA asking me if I want a credit card. However, flyers for scroungers, takeaways, carpenters, all that **** actually come in by the bucketload every single day. Is there any way of publicly stating that you don't want these, and then reporting every piece that comes in your door?

sceptre

Enii wrote:

Heard a thing on Pat Kenny. There is a worldwide protest on against unsolicited mail. Basically if you are sent any advertising for new credit cards or such like, that send a prepaid reply envelope, this campaign is asking you to either send the envelope back empty or fill it with all the junk literature that was sent to you and return it. If you are sending the lit., rip it up and remove the part with your name on it if you want to remain anonymous. Basically it is making the company pay for the getting rid of their own junk mail and also pay for the postage when it get returned to them.

Bah, mine. I've been doing it since I got my first junk mail almost a decade ago. Everyone gets everyone else's junk mail. I've never quite been able to fit a full-sized brick in those little envelopes.

JC 2K3

maddox thought of this ages ago: http://maddox.xmission.com/junk_the_junk.html

Capt'n Midnight

Invest in a Stanley solid fuel cooker with a back boiler and sign up for as much junk mail as you can preferrably with a different name so you can separate it faster

main problem is loads of ash ...

cuckoo

I use printer labels, write the address for something else i'm sending someone and use the 'free' envelope for that. My friends are used to getting stuff from me in the post in envelopes with all sorts of logos on them.

Enii

Cuckoo - That's a great one, will have to give it a go!!!

Scarinae

Hahaha I think that's a hilarious idea! I don't get junk mail though, I get junk emails... But if I start getting junk mail I'll certainly give that a go!

smiling_time

good idea...i hate getting so much junk mail but wont it just put additional strain an the postal system?

Capt'n Midnight

smiling_time wrote:

good idea...i hate getting so much junk mail but wont it just put additional strain an the postal system?

No, because it's paid for by the company that sent it. The more junk mail the more our postal system gets subsidised, so people in rural areas should sign up for more if they want to keep the local postoffice open !

(not a green view unless you take into account the extra the extra travelling people would do when the local postoffice closes.)

Kaboogie

I remember talking to a man three years ago, who has since died.
His wife and son had all ready passed on to their eternal reward.
He was just after posting himself a Birthday Card, so he would recieve post from the Postman on his birthday.
Sad!!

Kitsune

I'm not sure if this is true but I read about a guy who filled a return envelope with pennies to add to the weight and cost of the postage and then rang the credit card company, told them it was a mistake and demanded his money back. They had to send him a cheque for 33c.