I am not sure what's worse: not getting any mail, or only getting spam mail (we're talking of the snail variety here). At least with spam, someone is acknowledging your existence, even if it is only a giant computer somewhere in Detroit.
However, spam mail is still spam mail, and still annoying.
So what to do with it?
Some enterprising soul has discovered a way to not only make spam mail fun, but also get rid of some pesky trash along the way AND piss off the spammers to boot!
I'll give you a hint...the US Post Office says that you can use a postage-paid envelope to mail any legal object or package as long as it weighs no more than 72 pounds.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
It Might Be Spam, But At Least It's Mail, Right?
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What fun. I'll have to look into the laws for Canada. Cross your fingers that this will work here as well.
That's freakin' classic. And here I was just going to settle with installing a chute from my mailbox to my trash can!
this is freakin hilarious....i must try this with all the crap i get from credit card companies telling me i'm pre-approved...bastards :)
No mail is definitely better than spam mail.
I'm going to try this!
that is the best idea ever.
i so have to try it out.
HA HA HA HA...that is GREAT.
I mailed other advertisments in unsolicited postage paid envelopes, but I never knew til now they'll take a package as well. Oh, the things I can get rid of...,
This just opens up SOOOO many possibilities for me!
i find ignoring the mother fuckers is best.
ohhhh....i need to try this!!! i wonder what the worst thing they've gotten back was?!?!?
I have a friend who likes to send small rocks back to credit card companies. I've started doing this about a month ago, makes me feel good inside.
That is how I got rid of the circus midget that was stalking me.
Oh, this is just freaking classic. Garbage bags are getting more expensive these days. Fun stuff!
i wonder if anyone could come up with an equally devious payback for email or fax spammers.
ooooh that sounded so mean.. :p
Now that's what I'm talkin' about...great idea! Thanks.
I am SOOO doing that!!!!!! BRILLIANT
Great concept! We hate Spammers! Great Blog!
I like to get back fax spammers by doing this:
Get 3 sheets of legal paper
Tape them end to end in to one long sheet
Make a repeating zigzag pattern all the way down it, or something like "Stop faxing me"
Then start it through the fax.
When the first part comes out, quickly tape it to the last part. It will make 1 continous loop that faxes them all night long...
P.S. Love the blog. I found you on Temperamental Blender.
I've been doing that for almost 20 years, but I didn't know I could use stuff that didn't fit in the envelope. I limited myself to dead flies, condoms with a squirt of white lotion in them (to make them seem used), and so on.
My Mom did the brick thing, sent it postage-due to a college friend who blew my folks off when he was passing through town back in the early days of the ZIP code.
When I was in High School, we had an asshole band director who ordered extra fruit when we sold fresh produce for a winter fundraiser, then left it unsold in a stairwell to stink up that end of the school. Some of us sealed up a rotten box well enough we figured postal inspectors wouldn't snag it and sent it on the school's dime via parcel post to him at his new job.
I've also taken non-identifying pieces from one junk mailer and stuffed it in another's return envelope, always good for a grin.
I have been doing that for a few years & I still laugh everytime I take all the junk from one spammer & mail it back to another. I just remove anything with my name. You raise a good point though. I could put all sorts of junk in those envelopes - a new thing to try - thanks! Saw you on Mel's comments.
so that's how i can get rid of those old tires!!!!
I am sooo going on a spree with this one. Woo Hoo.
What a fab idea.
Revenge on junk mailers is always going to be sweet.
A friend I know always fills the forms in and posts them back. But he fills it in with page after page of religous babbling and "the end of the world is nigh" and "according to my prophecy" type of stuff. He swears it gets you removed from the mailing list quicker.
Dear dear... don't you know that's how you're supposed to spread Jack Chick's ministries?
oh me thinks i'll just take a bat to the BIG machine in detroit, y'know? kill the source:).
That's freakin' brilliant. I am SO going to do that...
Hey, that's a neat-o idea.
priceless.
truly. that's AWESOME.
; )
I usually send them back with some garbage in them, I no idea you could send something that large, so cool.
You are right! Sometimes they are totally out of control. It seems to come and go. Sometimes I get a lot, then I will go for a while with none.
that's freakin awesome...I gotta try it.
thanks.
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