six more in the mail today...

[bryanthompson]

I've become so fed up with spam that I've been mailing the empty envelopes back to the credit card/mortgage companies. It's damn ridiculous. I bought a shredder and spend a decent chunk of time every morning shredding anything from these bastards. Finally, I started saving the return envelopes and have been mailing them back. It won't make a difference, and I don't expect the spam to ever stop, but over a lifetime maybe I will cost 'em a couple of bucks. It at least makes the morning shred a little more entertaining.

[widebody911]

The USPS needs to raise the bulk rates instead of the 1st class rates.

[Rondinone]

Originally posted by bryanthompson
I've become so fed up with spam that I've been mailing the empty envelopes back to the credit card/mortgage companies. It's damn ridiculous. I bought a shredder and spend a decent chunk of time every morning shredding anything from these bastards. Finally, I started saving the return envelopes and have been mailing them back. It won't make a difference, and I don't expect the spam to ever stop, but over a lifetime maybe I will cost 'em a couple of bucks. It at least makes the morning shred a little more entertaining.

I do one better. I remove the page with my name, and the rest of it including the original envelope goes back into the prepaid one. They pay to have it all returned. hee hee.

[bryanthompson]

oooh, nice. I could just start stuffing them with cardboard or something

[widgeon13]

Capital One is the most irritating. I get at least one for each my wife and myself every day. Now I know how to get rid of some of this shlt! Thanks

[motion]

Tape it to a brick and drop it in the mailbox.

[juanbenae]

you have to call your credit card companies and insist they do not mail you anything but a bill. they share lists and if you are not on theirs they cant trade it to another. i know i know, you will say you still get them, and i do. it has cut the sheer numbers down big time.

[charleskieffner]

wanna stop the crap ONCE AND FOR ALL??????????????/



go to taco bell............pick up a nice big handful of extra hot sauce.

bring home.

place in offendi's envelope.

lick envelope.

place on counter.

smash with fist a few times.

laugh all the way to mail box.

END OF PROBLEM! trust me it works REAL GOOD!

[Dantilla]

I've mailed them back lots of other junk mail using their envelopes. Sometimes the other guy's offers, sometimes a few pages from a catalog I didn't ask for, just always enough to make sure they have to pay extra postage.

Enough people are doing this that sometimes the return envelopes have "tracking codes", but I've noticed that they're phoney. Different companies will have the exact same bar code and numbers. Just a way to scare people, so their postage costs must have gone up.

[jrdavid68]

http://www.dmaconsumers.org/offmailinglist.html

This works. If you buy a house or refinance etc., you will need to do it again with the new addresses. I find it works pretty well. Most of the junk mail stopped, then we bought/sold a house and it started up again.

I submitted again with both addresses and the junk mail has been cut way down. Now, if it wasn't for the local crap we get........

Edit: Just read some more, now they are asking for $1 to make it legit. The only time I ever paid for this service was $1 to get deceased names off the list.

[onlycafe]

mark the envelope ANTHRAX, chances are they will remove you from their list.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Gotta' clean up the garage? Simply mail those unwanted parts (free of any hazardous material of course) back to the offender.

Spare tires work great.

[rsNINESOOPER]

Originally posted by motion
Tape it to a brick and drop it in the mailbox.

Ill second the motion, pun
Just affix the junkmail prepaid postage envelope to any item you don't need and drop it in a post box. My favorite is simply putting short cutoffs of 1/4-1/2" x4" x3" flat bar steel from the shop scrap bucket into the envelope itself. so compact but heavy= expensive postage for the junk folks.

Or if you are really upset like I was one time just clean out the kitty box, put it into a large ziplok baggie and then place the bag of kitty roca into a manilla mailer envelope with the junk mail envelope taped on like a mailing label. If only I could have seen the face of the perrson who opened the envelope

[Big Ed]

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
You guys have way too much time on your hands...

-Wayne

Seriously. Just drop them in the trash.

[rcecale]

Originally posted by bryanthompson
oooh, nice. I could just start stuffing them with cardboard or something

Or perhaps a slice or two of bologna or ham. By the time it gets there, it should be pretty nice!

Randy

[cantdrv55]

Originally posted by onlycafe
mark the envelope ANTHRAX, chances are they will remove you from their list.

I hope you are joking about this.

[VenezianBlau 87]

Funny how some folks go to alot of trouble shredding junk mail. I've never seen one with more personally identifiable information than just my name, address, and occasionally outdated items sourced from public records.

I suspect the lending industry wants us to fear identity theft so that we will take steps that ultimately protect them.

[pmajka]

yep, $10 more dollars a month for that peace of mind.

[widebody911]

Originally posted by jrdavid68
http://www.dmaconsumers.org/offmailinglist.html

F&#117ck me with a pogo stick! To allegedly get off the lists, you have to submit your credit card information on a non-secure form. Talk about a phishing spoof just waiting to happen! All you'd need to do is clone the page, upload it to a typo-squatted domain, and spam it out there. **profit**

[onlycafe]

yes. a joke in very poor taste. sorry about that.