Do you hate junk mail?

carrie-on

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Three Little Words
I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at home during dinner hour. But that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has proposed "Three Little Words" based on his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all time. The three little words are "Hold On, Please." Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead of hanging up immediately would make each telemarketing call so time-consuming that boiler rooms would grind to a halt. When you eventually hear the phone company's beep-beep-beep tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task. This might be one of those articles you'll want to e-mail to your friends. Three little words that eliminate telephone soliciting.
Good Ideas
When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment let the companies throw them away.
When you get those pre approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send the pizza coupon to Citibank.
If you didn't get anything else that day then just send them their application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing!
Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and the best of it is that they're paying for it. Twice.
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why they need to increase postage again.
 
I got this as an email,thought it was a great idea and wanted to pass it on to all my Lit buddies. :D
 
Anything with a return envelope gets sent back. I figure the post office needs the money. And I don't need the mail.
 
I agree...I have been doing this for a few years now. My hubby even wrapped one envelope around a brick and sent it back. Never heard anything from that bank again...lol
 
brilliant. Fortunately I don't get as much as I used to. It's amazing how leaving the country cuts down on that crap.
 
DeityMun said:
I wish there was a way to do this with junk e-mail... :(

LOL that is so true!! I hate SPAM... the (email kind not the spiced ham kind).
 
carrie-on said:


LOL that is so true!! I hate SPAM... the (email kind not the spiced ham kind).


No kidding. In my Yahoo account, I get 150+ a DAY. A fucking DAY. God. :mad:
 
Lol....great ideas here.

Support your local USPO:D

Give those mortgage and credit card companies a chance to recycle their wasted paper:rolleyes:
 
I see it that way too,weed. The PO complains that they aen't making any money...I'm just trying to help them out!!
 
Pagliacci said:
This was a great thread.
Oh boy,I'll have so much fun from now on.

:D

Thanks! I thought it needed to be spread around because I know I'm not the only one who gets junk mail.:devil:
 
about once a month i'll pick some lucky company that has sent me crap to the music store and included a postage paid envelope and just stuff that fucker so full of other crap that i get all month that you can hardly close it then drop it in a corner mail box. i'm hoping that it's delivered postage due.
 
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