polksalet Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Aight, I have never tried this but a budy of mine just did it and we will see what happens. He has started taking the pre-paid envelope labels that come from credit card companies and attaching them to boxes which contain rash from around his house and sending them back to the cc company. He claims that they will deliver the trash to the cc company and charge them for it. He claims a friend of his has been doing this for some time and has managed to get off of the mailing lists for nearly every cc company. Does this work? Surely the brain trust here can verify this theory/story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 (edited) I've heard of attaching it to a brick and sending it back. Could be an urban legend. Edited February 23, 2008 by AtomicCEO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 I am anxiously awaiting Jaxfactor's input on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I've heard of attaching it to a brick and sending it back. Could be an urban legend. Sounds like it Snopes had a related article, but not what you are looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 From Snopes: "Returning junk mail to direct mailers on their dime (by stuffing it back into their postage-paid return envelopes) may cost them some money and provide you with a bit of personal satisfaction, but it won't cut down on the amount of junk mail you receive. In fact, it may actually increase your junk mail load, since the primary metric used to gauge the effectiveness of many direct mail campaigns is the number of responses received (even if those responses are negative)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Send back naked pictures of yourself as this might work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 From Snopes: "Returning junk mail to direct mailers on their dime (by stuffing it back into their postage-paid return envelopes) may cost them some money and provide you with a bit of personal satisfaction, but it won't cut down on the amount of junk mail you receive. In fact, it may actually increase your junk mail load, since the primary metric used to gauge the effectiveness of many direct mail campaigns is the number of responses received (even if those responses are negative)." as much as I wish you were wrong...you are absolutely correct... I would love to send them stuff back from around the house...maybe even a picture of a crap after I just dropped it with a scratch n sniff attached... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAYER Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I've heard of attaching it to a brick and sending it back. Could be an urban legend. This is from the 60's-70's. Abbie Hoffman was the original. wrote about it in one of his books against the establishment. did it a few times, don't remember who it was sent to or if it ever got delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxfactor Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 From Snopes: "Returning junk mail to direct mailers on their dime (by stuffing it back into their postage-paid return envelopes) may cost them some money and provide you with a bit of personal satisfaction, but it won't cut down on the amount of junk mail you receive. In fact, it may actually increase your junk mail load, since the primary metric used to gauge the effectiveness of many direct mail campaigns is the number of responses received (even if those responses are negative)." This sounds about right. But really, I've never done it and have never seen it being done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 how hard is it to just throw the chit away? ooooh i'll show them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 (edited) how hard is it to just throw the chit away? ooooh i'll show them I was going to post the exact same thing. But since I'm a flaming liberal: how hard is it to just throw it in the recycle bin? Edited February 23, 2008 by bushwacked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I was going to post the exact same thing. But since I'm a flaming liberal: how hard is it to just throw it in the recycle bin? during the course of the week, this crap eats up a good portion of my trash can... one credit card company does it every day...maybe 2/3 days... the other does it every other day... then you have random other crazy companies offering car insurance... not to mention all the other junk mail I get... screw them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 during the course of the week, this crap eats up a good portion of my trash can... We have curb side recycling every other week. Since we made an effort to stop throwing away paper and recycle it instead we have cut our garbage pickup to the same schedule. We save a few bucks every month. I work out of home, and my company wants me to actually put in an order for office supplies instead of just picking paper up and charging it. I've made some really good use out of old crap with a blank side I don't need as of late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 By the way, I still don't know what Polk means about grabbing "rash" around the house and sending it to the credit card companies. What is "rash?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 By the way, I still don't know what Polk means about grabbing "rash" around the house and sending it to the credit card companies. What is "rash?" yeast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avernus Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 We have curb side recycling every other week. Since we made an effort to stop throwing away paper and recycle it instead we have cut our garbage pickup to the same schedule. We save a few bucks every month. same poopy...we recycle too...that's why it puts a dent, because we only have 2 buckets, so we have to get plenty white trash bags...that is what we use for recyclables instead of black.. I work out of home, and my company wants me to actually put in an order for office supplies instead of just picking paper up and charging it. I've made some really good use out of old crap with a blank side I don't need as of late. good chit.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 What is the weight limit on sending stuff back? Could I send them back 50 pound boxes of wet sand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sox Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 What is the weight limit on sending stuff back? Could I send them back 50 pound boxes of wet sand? There's only one way to find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainHook Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Um, snopes is wrong. I actually did this. I would take every single one of those cc apps and write NO THANKS on them. Then I would stuff everything they sent me plus any other junk mail I had lying around in the postage paid envelope and mail it back to them. It took about a year of doing this, but I stopped receiving applications. I've never tried sending them something big back, maybe that would have got my message across faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donutrun Jellies Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 This is from the 60's-70's. Abbie Hoffman was the original. wrote about it in one of his books against the establishment. did it a few times, don't remember who it was sent to or if it ever got delivered. And here I believed Al Gore's claim to have invented the approach ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 There's only one way to find out. done, some lucky company will receive a large box of wet sand from the red river Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShiznit Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 I was going to post the exact same thing. But since I'm a flaming liberal: how hard is it to just throw it in the recycle bin? Sheesh...you know...free market and all!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteoflovegm Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Rather than waist a year ridding yourself of these offers, call the 800 number included and ask them to take you off the list for new offers. Or go digging through the river for bricks and the like... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Controller Posted February 25, 2008 Share Posted February 25, 2008 I don't mind junk mail - as others have said, just throw the chit away. What does piss me off is junk faxes. F'ers use my ink & paper to spam me. :mad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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