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I seem to be getting more and more 'junk' mail. They all seem to have a return envelope with return postage paid. Personally, I don't like to receive unsolicited mail, or many of the crooked appearing offers trying to get me to order something I do not need or want, and many times offer items or services I know they cannot provide.

Most times I order something I really want, Buds Gun Shop, Amazon, etc., they are received in a relatively small box such as one that might be shoe box size. I have started keeping them.

When I get silly circulators, blind mailing, things that just look off-kilter , or just what most people would call junk mail,
I keep them.... In a box I have on hand, at which time I place them in one of my extra empty boxes.

When one gets full, I place a postage paid envelope on the top, tape it securely , drop it off at the post office.

I have no idea what the receiving business does with it, nor do I care. All I know is that they charged for the return postage costs.

I fell I am doing a public service. I am keeping my local landfill from being filled prematurely with my junk mail ,and recycling the cardboard boxes I have, I am allowing the post office to charge extra money to the offenders, therefore increasing their day-to-day revenue, reducing the times between when the post office crawls to congress to get a rate increase.

I think this stuff is called 'JUNK ' mail for a reason.

Fight windmills much?

You're fighting a losing battle. It ends up in a land fill somewhere anyway. And the company you think you're punishing isn't going to notice anyway. Just throw it away. Simplify your life.

sjfcontrol wrote:Fight windmills much?

You're fighting a losing battle. It ends up in a land fill somewhere anyway. And the company you think you're punishing isn't going to notice anyway. Just throw it away. Simplify your life.

Hey, don't knock it. Everyone needs a hobby!

Junk mail has one upside: It helps keep open the doors of the Post Office.

Without junk mail moola, it'd be closed by now...

When one has particularly irritated me, I have been known to wrap a concrete block in brown paper and affix the return-postage pre-printed label. For example, a Planned Parenthood mailing.

Tear it up and drop it in the recycling bin.
If it's an offer for a credit card I shred it first, then recycle it.

When I was younger, I hated junk mail. Then I moved next to a mail carrier. I found out that the junk mail is what keeps the post office running. Without it, my neighbor would not have a job.

Now I don't mind it so much.

Most of them when processed at the post office are thrown away. The pre-paid envelopes are only good for a normal envelope. When they are scanned if it is anything heavier it's thrown away.

gregthehand wrote:Most of them when processed at the post office are thrown away. The pre-paid envelopes are only good for a normal envelope. When they are scanned if it is anything heavier it's thrown away.

I was wondering about that. I figured you would just mail back empty envelopes.

If the post office is kept running by unnecessary mail, then it needs to shut down or scale back. I don't make the assumption that any Govt worker deserves a job.