Re-using pre-paid envelopes

squeaky

There's an older thread that I knew existed but couldn't find earlier - but Pink tracked it down (Thank you Pink). Try this...

Junk Mail

GypsyKate

cheekymole wrote:

If we all send them back empty do you think they would stop sending the junk mail when they realise that it's costing them money?

I'm going to try it as it will keep my bin far emptier

A friend of mine opens them up and sends a different companies junk mail off to them! I think that is a great way to 'slim your bin'! :rotfl:

On a serious note, I got extremely fed up with the amount of junk mail and unsolicited sales calls we got at home got so I signed up for the mail preference scheme and the telephone preference scheme. I did this about 2 and a half years ago and the amount of junk mail we receive now is almost nil. It took about 6 months for us to really notice the difference but all we tend to get now are the ones that are not adressed.

As for telephone calls, the only unsolicited calls we get now is either when someone misdials for the local pub (the 2 middle numbers are reversed!) or an occasional recorded massage from the USA about having won a holiday. This always seems to happen soon after I have called my friend in Alabama or she has called me! Curious!!

I did this for my Mum, too, after my Dad died, to minimise the about of mail and telephone calls she would get in his name.

It's really easy to do on line and I would recommend that everyone did it! Of course you have to remember to check (or uncheck) those little boxes about receiving additonal information when you sign up for something new.

franney

Ooooh, glad you asked this, i was sorting the junkmail last ngiht and wondered if i could use the prepaid envelope. WE decided that probably not so i did what i usually do and ripped up the junk mail (taking name and address bit off first for shredding) then sent it back int he prepaid envelope
Nice to read i am not the only one that does this :T

janb5

Quite useful just to keep pre paid envelopes for money to school etc. Just reuse by putting label over address. Great for school meals, trips etc.

SaverSarah_2

Yeah, that's what I do at the moment, we get through so many for school and nursery it saves a fortune.

SallyinWales

Stuff some random junk mail in them, and add a cheery cover note that says 'Thank you for your unwanted mailing, please have some of mine in exchange'. They will sharpish have you off the mailing list.

SaverSarah_2

Nice one Sally! I must give that a try.

Chipps

Before we signed up to the mailing preference service, I used to send the junk mail back in the prepaid envelope with a big note scrawled across saying "Please take my name off your mailing list"
Don't know if it worked or not!
But either way, they had to pay for the postage in order to receive it back.
I noticed more recently that less of the junk mail has prepaid envelopes: just phone numbers or email addresses. I wonder if they've caught on?

Wolfhound

I read somewhere that if you write the word "Refused" on the envelope and post it back to the company concerned, they have to pay a fine or double postage (sorry, can't remember the exact details). My pet hate was the bank one's with a application form with all my personal details already written on it, so those one's I had to open and then rip up. :mad:

krishna

cheekymole wrote:

If we all send them back empty do you think they would stop sending the junk mail when they realise that it's costing them money?

I'm going to try it as it will keep my bin far emptier

I don't send them back empty, I stuff them with all the other junk they have sent and post that back. Then they pay even more postage and my bin stays emptier. I used to include lots of other rubbish of my own too in order to labour the point, but I've grown up a bit.