Mike & Fran wrote:
My wife came up with a great idea. Junk mail that sends you a postage paid envelope, she puts stuff in the envelope and writes no thank you. The Post Office makes good money off it and after a few times you never hear from them again!!!
Must call baloney (balogna?) on that one - as well as the brick idea.
The brick - won't go anywhere. (ask a postal employee).
The polite "no thank you" in the return envelope is simply (instantly) sent to the "round file" by the letter opener at it's destination.
(You don't really think a minimum wage employee is going to bother to cross-reference and remove your address from their mailing list?)
Have tried that one - complete waste of time!
The "stuff" keeps arriving from the same source.
As far as "collecting" for fire starters or simply tossing, that's great. (tossing is my solution).
However, junk mail can be a problem for those using forwarding services - even when the service is told *not* to forward (ship) they still do. So you get to pay for postage to forward junk mail.
BTW - GS *does* give up sending you junk after a couple of years of non-membership in various GS "benefits".
That put a smile on my face - no halo though!.:W
And - (IMO) the forum does quite well from advertisements, folks purchasing from CW, and....of course - signing up new GS members.
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