Junk Mail

[xoxoxoBruce]

What do you do with junk mail? Stick it in the postage paid reply envelope and mail it back?
Here's how to go one better.

You know those obnoxious "refinance your home" or credit card scams offers that you get in the mail? This is called direct marketing, where marketers use a reduced bulk postal rate to send entire forests of paper mail to you.

Plenty of people think its cute to put the postage-paid envelopes back into the mail as revenge. But really, that's a real pussy way of dealing with it. I decided to take it to the next level.

Find a shoebox, or a storage bin, or any cardboard box you have laying around. Fill it up with bricks, big blocks of iron, or maybe cement. Tape the box up with everyday packaging tape. Use a junkmail's postage-paid envelope and tape it neatly to the top cover of the box. NEATLY. And mail it off. Envelope revenge!

A few days later, your package shows up at the junk mailer's location, and they have to pay for every cent of delivery. Once the cost outweighs the benefit, they will stop sending out direct mail marketing material. And that is my goal.