The Original SPAM Mail

One of the most irritating aspects of daily life for me is receiving junk mail. I hate it.

I despise finding my postal mailbox (which admittingly, I do not bother to check but one a week or every 2) crammed packed with crap advertisements, solicitations, and even coupons for every freakin' sale, business opening/celebration/closing and what not. I simply do not care, do not look, do not read -- it all goes directly into the garbage...

Except for the smaller pieces and sales pages unmarked with my postal identity -- Those I save especially to pack into the numerous business reply envelopes from predatory credit card companies attempting to lure me/anyone into their gluttonous world of high interest debt with their BS offers and pre-authorization notices.

No, I'm afraid I can't take full credit for the idea of this therapeutic mischief. I actually heard it on the radio somewhere, but no matter, it's a great stress relief practice, not to mention, source of entertainment. (I personally always feel much better afterward.)

Of course I always switch up the brochures, leaflets, pamphlets, & informative inserts and send those to their competitors - complete with half the Sunday sales papers, missing children flyers (okay, not that I mind those -- I do look at those and feel it's important to pass these along), and maybe something interesting like a couple of canned food wrappers, a movie ticket stub, gum wrappers, and/or a coupon for a buy 1 get one free greasy-ass burger type of thing.

"No Postage Necessary" means that the sending company has already arranged to pick up the tab for the convenient sake of hastening the return, BUT they only have to pay that postage if the item is mailed and yes, they are charged by weight. --It's amazing what one can stuff into a business envelope with a little sinister determination. =)

So just think what we, as americans, could accomplish if only everyone cared enough about the environment to recycle junk mail this way... Reuse, Recycle, Reduce?

It's your duty america. ;-)

PS. Image stolen from here.

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"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
--Vilhjalmur Stefansson