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Default Here's How To Handle Junk Mail...

Paul Keinanen wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:41:05 -0700, Robert Baer
wrote:

Stephan Goldstein wrote:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:16:34 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Here's How To Handle Junk Mail...

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...Jim Thompson
Here's what I do....

I carefully open everything, especially credit-card offers.

Anything containing a prepaid return envelope is gold. I take
some of the contents (absent identifying info), sealf it into
the prepaid envelope, and mail it back. The addressee has
to pay something like First-Class plus $0.23. I figure they're
paying for my time

Junk without a reply envelope just gets recycled.

..and the SECOND time you get junk mail from the same place, add plenty
of scrap paper or a sheet of galvanized tin cut to fit the return
envelope..they can wind up paying a few dollars in postage fees.
Just do not add too much weight as they may refuse it.


Does adding some white powder (such as wheat) into the return envelope
still cause a massive fuss in the USA as a few years ago ?


Most definitely AND a *VERY* stupid ting to do, as there ae ways to
trace the source..
..and then you will disappear off the face of the earth - more
invisible than the Arab "detainees" at Gitmo.