Tired of Getting Junk Mail in Your Postal Mailbox?

See What Stumpy McDermitt Did to Fight Back Againist Direct Marketing Postal Mail

A bunch of us were standing around the water cooler discussing this weekend football game results. Some how, the subject of our conversation moved from football to gambling to junk mail. One of my co-workers made the statement that he was tired of getter postal junk mail and he wished he could do something about it. That’s when Stumpy McDermitt interjected that he had an answer to the problem. Stumpy works in my company’s sales and marketing division and is always coming up with brilliant, cutting edge, out-of-the-box solutions to everyday problems. “Send them back, that is what I do” said Stumpy. “Pray tell, Stumpy,” I said “how do you do that?”

Stumpy told everyone to look for the letters from companies that have a postage-paid return envelope. “Take everything that they sent to you and put it back in the envelope, then drop the letter back in the postal mail box. The sending company will have to pay for the return postage. In addition, if the envelope is more than ¼” thick, they have to pay $0.60 verses $0.37 when the envelope is delivered to them. So I fold up the contents such that it is very thick prior to placing it in the envelope. If the envelope will not seal, I put a piece of scotch tape across the back to hold it shut. Sometimes, just for fun I place the contents of from vendors that do not include a postage-paid envelope into a different vendor that DID send a postage-paid envelope. The key is to get the weight of the envelope up. The more the envelope weighs the more the original sender has to pay when he or she gets it back.”