HELP - JUNK MAIL

[Ginny]

A post from Lorna reminded me of my hatred for junk mail.

I believe we can cure the problem, if a large proportion of the population co-operated for just a few months.

I assume that most junk mail is sent out by mailing agencies. But the replies would go to the marketing or sales dept of the companies involved.

Well how about replying to every single offer, enquiry, etc. but putting your reply in the wrong reply-paid envelope. Result: every company sending out junk would receive a similar quantity back. It would all have to be opened (millions of envelopes) and then junked in the trash.

How long could they tolerate that, I wonder.

Where can we initiate this programme? Who is a good publicist?

[Alexandra]

sorry to rain on your parade but bulk rate mailings will not be returned to the sender by the post office.

the reason businesses do junk mail it because it works. depending on what they sell or the service provide, if they get a typical 3% response rate (3 out of 100 pieces of mail sent) then its a "success"!!

junk mail works better than space advertising.

junk mail keeps the cost of 1st class postage low.

[LaurenD]

Ginny -- That's something that I've been doing for years now. I've even gone so far as to save junk mail just for remailing it to totally unrelated senders. The cost to the junk mailer lies in the effort and time spent to open the envelope and recognize that it is junk mail, and then the extra costs incurred to dispose of the extra trash that accumulates if enough people do this.

[Ginny]

Ginny -- That's something that I've been doing for years now. I've even gone so far as to save junk mail just for remailing it to totally unrelated senders. The cost to the junk mailer lies in the effort and time spent to open the envelope and recognize that it is junk mail, and then the extra costs incurred to dispose of the extra trash that accumulates if enough people do this.

Great!
Your little protest is good for your soul, but we need to kill, at source, that junk that fills up our letterboxes and attracts burglars if it is not cleared.
So how do we get enough people to do it to be effective?

[Mellissa]

Well as a printer i must say god bless junk mail its my living
Couse al these folders and brochures have to be printed
So i say keep them coming its food for me and my familie (AND OF COURSE SOME NEW OTFITS TO LOL)


Mellissa

[Virginia]

Hello???????
What is the old saying??: "One man's trash is another man's treasure!"
Virginia

[DonnaT]

Makes good fodder for the fireplace.

Shread it, compact it use it to start the log fire.

[Celia]

Better yet, Donna, if you actually courted bulk mail, you could probably heat your home entirely by burning the junk. I see a couple of inventor opportunities here too--for junk mail stoves, junk mail presto log makers . . .

-Celia