An interesting article on ProQuo recently, Top 10 Creative Responses to Junk Mail.
Most of them are not too interesting, but the one about blending it up and making your own blank paper is pretty cool. I'd like to try it some time.
But the awesome one is #7: Response Package. The article reads:
"Many are inclined to view themselves as victims of junk mail, but some creative (and/or angry) types will take aggressive counter-action. These folks don't just demand their removal from direct mailing lists, but rather, they send direct mailers bricks (that right, bricks). The Office of Strategic Influence Web site explains that direct mailers pay approximately 20 cents an ounce on their pre-paid postage. An eight pound package, therefore, would end up costing them approximately $25. So if you don't mind paying a little extra for a larger envelope or shipping box, your revenge would be moderately significant."
I'd love to do this! If you're brave enough to try it, let me know!
UPDATE: Read TreeHugger's "Stop Junk Mail: 7 Ways to Reduce It and Opt Out for Good" for summaries, pros, and cons for seven unique methods of reducing your junk mail. Certainly worth the read.
Image from http://www.officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/packages9.jpg
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I have often thought about doing that, but I thought at some point I read somewhere that the post office will only mail business reply stuff in the original envelope, so I didn't.
My favorite thing to do, when I get junk mail that particularly peeves me, is to tear it up into teeny tiny pieces, put it in the reply envelope and mail back. That way, when they open it, it's irritating confetti they have to clean up.
Plus, the tearing can be therapeutic!
Thanks, Jess. That certainly does sound therapeutic!
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