Do you think this suggestion to eliminate junk mail is good?

How to Dispose of Junk Mail
When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment. Let them throw it away.

When you get those pre- approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes! Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Or a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their application back!

If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing!

Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting all their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and best of all THEY'RE paying for it! Twice!

Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why they need to increase postage.

Submitted by Kevin, Dallas, Tx.

No, it is not a good idea.


If EVERYBODY did that, maybe the companies that sent the junk mail would get the idea and quit sending junk mail, but most people just throw the junk mail away and a few people even look forward to getting junk mail.

You are just making more work for the lowly worker drone that receives and processes incoming mail. And especially if you do that with your phone and/or utility bills, they might "accidentally" miss seeing your payment when they tossed the junk away, and then you'd be charged late fees.


Instead, it is much better for you to use one of the opt-out services from one of the major direct-mail organizations. In the US, you can use the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service to opt-out.

https://www.dmaconsumers.org/cgi/offmail...

I can vouch that you will quit receiving junk mail from all major national direct marketing companies that belong to the DMA.

You can also get a Prohibitory Order from the US Postal Office, which may be the only way to stop direct mail from local advertisers who don't belong to the DMA (for example, the free weekly Pennysaver classified ad papers). Doing that is more work than going through the DMA, and you have to do it for each individual advertiser, but it does stop the junk mail coming from them.


Most junk mail is recyclable, so make sure that you put it into the recycle bins for your trash (after carefully ripping up anything that has identifiable information on it so that it can't be used by identity thieves).

yes

While I don't thik it will eliminate junk mail, I do use the "business reply mail" envelopes to return everything back to the original sender at their expense; I've done it for a couple of years now. I see no reduction in the junk mail, but I see a big increase in my sense of smug self-satisfaction every time I drop one in the mail box.

Now, if everyone did it...It might make a difference, it really might. But even if it doesn't make a difference in junk mail...folks, you just can't beat the feeling of smug self-satisfaction!!!

I urge everyone to do this becuase it might make a difference, WILL make a difference if enough of us do it, but also because it's just plain FUN!!!