Poltical campaign mailings.

[Tyme2fish]

Geez,I can't wait for this election to be over. I'm receiving 15 to 20 mailings per day.

I hate the glossy paper these ads are printed on. They aren't good for starting a fire and they're too slick for butt wiping!!

[DJD]

Yep just tossed 4 in the garbage. The ads on tv are just as bad.

[parker]

Do like I do. When you get them save all until you get a credit card application with a postage paid envelope and put all your junk in it and mail it off. This helps keeping all the junk out of the garbage and a great way to recycle!

[GeoFisher]

Do like I do. When you get them save all until you get a credit card application with a postage paid envelope and put all your junk in it and mail it off. This helps keeping all the junk out of the garbage and a great way to recycle!

Do you REALLY do that........I bet there may be some legal issues if you do.........

I bet you don't.

Later,

Geo

[RoadToad]

I do something similar. I'll take a credit card application one company sends me, put it in the postage-paid envelope for another, and send it off. Chase, meet CitiBank, CitiBank, meet Chase! I've been doing it for years, since I saw Andy Rooney doing a bit about it on 60 Minutes. Of course there's nothing in or on the envelopes that's personally identifiable. The way those postage-paid mailings work, it costs them very little to send them, but they pay around a buck for each one that comes back.

[stratosjoe]

been doing that for years I send 1-2 a week off I pack that envelope as full of crap as I can and send it off It has not slowed down the amount I get at all. makes me feel better and don't cost nuttin

[parker]

Do you REALLY do that........I bet there may be some legal issues if you do.........

I bet you don't.

Later,

Geo

Why would you doubt me? Have I ever gave you a reason to do so? What legal issues are you talking about? I aint sending a letter bomb or nothing like that, you seem rather paranoid, loosen up and go to the mailbox and drop some junk mail off you picked up at the box, its easy and completely legal, its even postage FREE!

[RoadToad]

I'm not so sure it is "completely" legal. If I remember right, those envelopes are labeled with a "Penalty for Private Use." But I really don't think anyone's costing the credit card companies enough money to make it worth their while pursuing that. Plus the PR they would get wouldn't be great. Besides, unless you write your name on it, they have no way of knowing who sent it.

[Tyme2fish]

I'm looking at an envelope that's ready to be returned. There is nothing written on it that says private use or any other warning.

They mailed it to me and I'm simply mailing it back to them.

If I receive junk mail and there is a postage prepaid return envelope, you better bet that they are getting it returned to them.

However, I do remove any reference to my name and address and any bar-codes that could me traced to me.( O.K. I may be a little paranoid )

I'm just doing my civic duty in attempting to aide the U.S. Postal service.

[parker]

Hey Tyme! Be sure to add some weight to it with other junk mail! You can help the environment, the more you send them the more that gets recycled.

[Tyme2fish]

I also wear surgical gloves when opening and sending mail. Never "lick" the return envelope. Use a damp towel to moisten the glue. Gotta watch that DNA and fingerprint analysis.

And I always wear my tinfoil hat when on the internet.

(Just kidding folks)

[kygorski]

ALL of it goes to a land fill, now we need to figure a way to get all the politicians in there also.