Junk Mail

[followyourbliss]

Not sure if this qualifies for this particular forum, but its close, so here goes!

Since attending the Live Earth Concert in NJ on 7-7-07, I've taken up battle with corporations sending me junk mail. (In particular, credit card companies who send me daily invitations for credit cards....but it works for all drones who send me unsolicited mail) I open the junk mail, to see if it has a postage paid envelope enclosed. If it does, I write a note for them to remove me from their mailing list, then I write "When you stop wasting our resources; I'll stop wasting your postage." Then I stuff the whole works (original envelope included) into the postage paid envelope and send it back to them at their expense.

I also send back all junk (along with my payment) sent to me by creditors that do not offer online billing, suggesting that they consider a more ecologically friendly way of receiving payments.

I wonder how long it would take these large corporations to mend their ways if everybody did this? In any regard, it feels really good to refuse to recycle paper that I didn't even ask for!

Peace,
Tanya

[unclejoe]

I used the method you described several years ago with much success.

Alternative method, if you have a wood burning stove/heater: use the 'commercial' mail as fuel.
A few years back, I heard of a gentleman who got disgusted when he received a whole batch of 'it'
and threw it into his fireplace with 'warming' results. The idea hit him.
He signed up for bunches more of the 'send me free info' lists,
the coporations supplied lots of material and used it to heat his home!
He, reportedly, saved about 75% on his seasonal heating bill! :D

[Kookie_Baron]

Luckily, paper is one of our few renewable resources, and is actually being renewed with various program across the country. This is the reason I don't understand why people are up in arms over trees. Though I do agree that we shouldn't be wasting resources just because we can. Also, the mailers are annoying, and I did the same thing. Restuffing prepaid envelopes and sending them back, it worked very well and I hardly receive junk mail at all anymore.

[CowboyHippy]

every time they recycle said papers the fibers get thinner and shorter, so chances are that nice clean crisp quality paper your junkmail is printed on will be some toilet paper for you to wipe your bum with in a few go rounds (hopefully after it becomes a memo pad for George WWW3 and a copy sheet for Rush Limbaugh) :D