[thedudeistoocool]

There was an article about a company plantng trees to counter junk mail in todays Sunday paper and it told me it was time to start stumping for my private crusede again

This idea was sent to me several years ago and I may actually be the only person still doing it (being that I still get craploads of junk mail)

At the end of every week I open up all the junk mail I have received - remove my name from the inserted information then I stuff the mail back into the preaddressed return envelopes to be mailed, you know those "No Postage Necessary" bulk return mailers they send with their crap.

The trick is I return all the junk from company "A" in Company "B's" envelopes and Company "B's" junk gets returned to Company "C" and Company "C's" junk gets sent to Company "A"

All the junk mail is created and sent out by computers and machines so the cost is minimal to send BUT it has to be processed by real live people - even if it is full of crap when sent back This actually creates jobs (albeit briefly and minimum wage at that)

Now if everybody did this the numbers of returned mailers would be in the 100,000's if not millions and it would still require someone to open it all just in case there was one letter pertaining to their business in the truckload. It would become too costly for companies to continue these practices and they would eventually have to stop. Or it may just create a whole new industry of letter openers if you are in the entreprenurial spirit. It only take a few minutes per week and it is an incredible stress reliever - much nicer than just tossing the mail into the recycler bin.

Have fun.