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Prepaid Envelopes
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These envelopes are *NOT* prepaid. They are "business reply" envelopes which means the postage is paid by the issuing company when the mail is delivered to them. (Hence they all have a Business Response Licence number on them).
Using them to send mail elsewhere is ILLEGAL and is the same as not using a stamp at on an envelope.
This is is not a money saving tip, just like saying "save money, just steal stuff from Tesco" is not.
I should have thought that this thread should be closed, as this site does not promote illegal ways to "save money", only genuine 100% legal ones.
By all means reuse the envelope itself, but black out the response licence bit and STICK A STAMP ON IT.student100 hasn't been a student since 2007...0 -
Why not just seal the envelope up and post it back to the company it came from - if we all did this on a regular basis it might help stem the flow of rubbish through the letterbox!
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Even better write your name and address on a piece of paper together with "Please remove me from your mailing list." and send that back instead of an empty envelope. I'm sure you'll have more success that way. ;D0
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If you're having trouble with lots of junk mail then get off the junk-mail lists by contacting the mail preference service: https://www.dmaconsumers.org/offmailinglist.html
It takes a while to filter through but in no time you should see your junk mail levels drop. Any junk that you still get send back the pre-paid envelopes with the junk stuffed inside 0 -
I must admit having registered with the fax, telephone and mailing preference service havent had too many problems - hope it lasts!
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If only the TPS could be used for business phone numbers. I have lost count of the number of sales people who have interrupted my work asking to speak to whoever is responsible for the phone bills. Fortunately I can head them off at the pass very quickly by saying we don't have BT phone lines!Signature removed for peace of mind0
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I live in Portugal and I have to walk 2 kms to collect my post0 -
BazzaD - your link seemed to be American (it costs $5 to register) the UK one is Mailing Preference Service and it's free.
Walking 2K to get your mail - only to find out it's junk? Put's it into perspective huh? :-/ I'm a little angel
BUT A WHOLE LOTTA DEVIL
'Spend your life with eyes open, sleep only to dream of what to do next'0 -
oh no! are the royal mail really going to bother forking out to take you to court for the price of a stamp?Or even a few postage stamps? I don't think so! So why not just reuse the envelopes, the likely hood anything would happen to you is more or less impossible!
Man was arrested last night for defrauding a junk mail firm for 26p,he plead guilty and he was sentenced to 6 months prison time. *MuhaHahAha*This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
or..you could email the junk mailers some doggy poo back in their kindly paid evelopes they provided.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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