I'm Rich!!!

[astcell]

A lot of scammers and junk mail folks provide a postage paid envelope. Be sure to glue one to a 55 gallon drum and put it out for the mailman, it is a good way to get rid of oil drums, forklift pallets, cinderblocks, cats, and other stuff that has no use to you. Well I don't know about the cats. Anyway stuff all the junk they send you into their own reply envelope and let them pay first class rates to get their own junk back. I mailed a few large pieves of wood, now I see the postage reply envelopes say "Good for up to one oz." in some cases. Blimey, now I gotta limit myself. But save the addresses because when you get junk from other folks you can sign them up for each others' product.

[KeLviN]

or you could just keep the free toner and not pay the bill....
if it's a scam than they are not going to be itching to call the authorities...

[astcell]

No...they wanted my credit card number for a $4 shipping charge, me thinks they may, just may, charge more than that!

[KeLviN]

accept 4 dollar ship charge and then report card stolen.... alot of work but no one said evil is easy to defeat...

[Gadsden]

Originally posted by astcell
A lot of scammers and junk mail folks provide a postage paid envelope. Be sure to glue one to a 55 gallon drum and put it out for the mailman, it is a good way to get rid of oil drums, forklift pallets, cinderblocks, cats, and other stuff that has no use to you. Well I don't know about the cats. Anyway stuff all the junk they send you into their own reply envelope and let them pay first class rates to get their own junk back. I mailed a few large pieves of wood, now I see the postage reply envelopes say "Good for up to one oz." in some cases. Blimey, now I gotta limit myself. But save the addresses because when you get junk from other folks you can sign them up for each others' product.

I have often wondered what the limits were on that... I somehow got on a religous scammer's mailing list ("Let God be your business partner.. send us a donation to find out how!" grr.... ) All of the mailings are on a postage-paid envelope. I was going to tape it to a brick and mail it back, but my g/f argues that the post office will not take it. Anyone have any experence on this? I would think they would not care.. they get paid; more money for them. I would hate to be the poor postman to have to lug a brick around in his mailbag all day.. might cause them to go.... postal! :p

BTW.. I do love the postage paid credit card apps. that are put all over college campuses.. I dump those in the mail by the truckload! :D

[astcell]

I used a brick once, the mailman just smiled. I bet if everyone knew about this they'd put a stop to it though.

I found a new use for the ones limited to one or two ounces. I take a piece of plastic sheeting, the kind that covers flourescent lights, or a big piece or cardboard, anything that can be considered overside. Mind you now it does not have to be large, just weird dimensions, like two enveloped glued at the edges will make it longer than normal, hence oversize. These are like 40 cents more.

When you return an envelope be sure to cram their junk mail back in it. Too bad AOL disks to not have SASEs.

[mfreeck]

Originally posted by astcell
When you return an envelope be sure to cram their junk mail back in it. Too bad AOL disks to not have SASEs.

That's ok. Collect as many discs as you can and send them to the other folks to bulk up their returned junk mail. Also, be kind enough to offer them your own deal. Got a bridge you don't need? How about consulting services? A special offer to receive deeply discounted valuable items people ordinarily just throw away? A favor should always be returned in kind.

[astcell]

Right now I pay $23 a month to have the garbageman empty my trash cans. I can calce that service and just let the mailman take them away with the postage paid envelopes!

[Gadsden]

I don't figure the post office would put a stop to it, they get paid for it. I could see the credit companies (since they tend to have the most SASE's out there) renting a senator and getting a law passed making it unlawful to use a SASE for any other packaging than what the person picking up the tab intended it for..

[astcell]

Well they can always have us use our own stamp and then credit our accounts $1., in the meantime I have not thrown away a business reply envelope in over 15 years!