3 Things You Can Do With Your Junk Mail

Millions and millions of junk mail filter through the postal service every single day. Unfortunately some make it to our innocent mailboxes. Today I counted five. “When will this stop?” I ask myself everytime I get one of these annoying little envelopes. If its not Pre-Approved credit card applications its something else to subscribe to. Car warranty, newspaper, magazines, car insurance, your alumni junk mail from the University that took your money etc etc…

I feel bad sometimes because these companies are wasting a lot of money on these so called marketing strategy. Millions of trees are cut down to make the junk mail we see everyday. These companies should instead use that money to plant a tree somewhere and go green. On top of that, it annoys most of us and if you are like me, you just want them to stop mailing you junk!

There are 3 things we can all do about this Junk Mail dilemma aside from throwing them away:

#1 Call the company and ask them nicely to take you out of their list. I have tried this numerous times and I usually get a sales pitch before they go ahead and tell me what I want to hear. Then in next weeks mail, I still get their junk mail. Hey, maybe step 1 will work better for you.

#2 If they have a return envelope that says “No Postage Necessary If Mailed In The United States” in the upper right hand corner where a stamp should be – mail the envelope back to them with nothing inside. The postage will be paid by the ADDRESSEE, meaning the company that sent you the mail will have to pay for every return envelope bar code that is scanned. Deplete their budget without converting any of their leads into revenue. Evil right? Hey, I tried “Step 1″ maybe if they had no budget to spend, we won’t have any junk mail.

#3 If you really want to be really evil you can make copies of the envelope and mail it out just like that. The mail person will pick it up process it and  bar code will be scanned. I have never tried this step but maybe a thousand “Step 2″ mailed out will be lesson enough to listen to us in “Step 1″.

You can be nice or you can be evil – some of us can be both. =)