Teach junk mailers to stop sending you stuff.

[Rydian]

http://www.officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/

You know those obnoxious "refinance your home" or credit card scams offers that you get in the mail? This is called direct marketing, where marketers use a reduced bulk postal rate to send entire forests of paper mail to you.

So this is something you can do in response.

Find a shoebox, or a storage bin, or any cardboard box you have laying around. Fill it up with bricks, big blocks of iron, or maybe cement. Tape the box up with everyday packaging tape. Use a junkmail's postage-paid envelope and tape it neatly to the top cover of the box. NEATLY. And mail it off. Envelope revenge!

A few days later, your package shows up at the junk mailer's location, and they have to pay for every cent of delivery. Once the cost outweighs the benefit, they will stop sending out direct mail marketing material. And that is my goal.

If you were going to do this, what would you send?

 

[Ritsuki]

I think I would send my dead microwave. Seriously, it's standing on my terrace with some other dead electronic devices and I really want to get rid of it

 

[Fudge]

I would send a old broken TV. That would weigh a lot and get rid of junk.

 

[Depravo]

This is a great idea. I can't abide any kind of junkmail/spam/cold calling. I'd probably send one of the rocks from the local riverbank. Some of those beasts are as big as a football.

 

[.Chris]

hmmm, turd to represent what they send to us!

 

[Paarish]

definitly bricks

 

[scrtmstr]

i'd just pit in a small engine block, and then put stones and lead plates in there i've still got here.

 

[Slyakin]

I'd just get a refrigerator box and fix it with cement blocks, bricks, and maybe an old TV or two.

 

[Thoob]

I'd do a crap in the paid-for envelope, then mail it off. If they're going to send me some of their shit, I'll send them some of mine.

 

[going nutz]

http://www.officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/

You know those obnoxious "refinance your home" or credit card scams offers that you get in the mail? This is called direct marketing, where marketers use a reduced bulk postal rate to send entire forests of paper mail to you.

So this is something you can do in response.

Find a shoebox, or a storage bin, or any cardboard box you have laying around. Fill it up with bricks, big blocks of iron, or maybe cement. Tape the box up with everyday packaging tape. Use a junkmail's postage-paid envelope and tape it neatly to the top cover of the box. NEATLY. And mail it off. Envelope revenge!

A few days later, your package shows up at the junk mailer's location, and they have to pay for every cent of delivery. Once the cost outweighs the benefit, they will stop sending out direct mail marketing material. And that is my goal.

If you were going to do this, what would you send?

will this really work?

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

I'd send ten things of rotting meat and I'd pack it so it hides the odor, then when they opened it.... Vomit party!

 

[Scott-105]

I'd send ten things of rotting meat and I'd pack it so it hides the odor, then when they opened it.... Vomit party!

You're evil

Actually, I'd probably do the same...Well, something nasty anyway. I hate junk mailers sooo much.

 

[jefffisher]

wasting bricks, a box, my tape, my time and space on the mailtruck.

whatever happened to the old fashioned quick and easy drop junk mail into trashcan method?

 

[Peelbash]

Bricked Wiis, snapped cd's, pack of fleas, stinky cheese, hive of bees, and the Falcon Maltese

 

[Terminator02]

wasting bricks, a box, my tape, my time and space on the mailtruck.

whatever happened to the old fashioned quick and easy drop junk mail into trashcan method?

o mah gawd!!! you've got to recycle that, not fill up our landfills with paper

 

[CannonFoddr]

hmmm, turd to represent what they send to us!

So is that 're-turd to sender' then ??

 

[spruced]

Haha, clever!

 

[gameboy13]

This is epic.

I would put all of the junk mail they have sent me over the past few months. it should weigh about the same as a brick.

 

[myuusmeow]

One time my dad sent evangelical paraphernalia in one of these prepaid mailers.

He wasn't doing it tongue in cheek either.