Junk Mail

Andrea

Do you want me to move it Trix?

trafalgar_2

About sending junk mail back to who sent it as in...
...I usually swap the junk around so they all get each others cr*p  ;)

I have a friend who encloses a letter thanking the company for their interest in his business along with an administration bill for his reply for anything from £5 to £25. Apparantly 8 out of 10 companies pay up...........and never send anything again ;D

What a BRILLIANT idea ;D ;D ;D ;D

I'll certainly be doing that from now on ;D

trafalgar_2

you send them back empty? I cram all the cr*p they sent me back in them!!

and yes it does cost them!.

also, am I the only one who dislikes credit card company's & other bills providing a return envelope without prepaid postage?. I never add a stamp to these, if they want my cheque, thay can damn well pay the postage.

Won't be sending them back empty anymore though

Will be cramming them and adding letter like TRIXs mate ;D ;D ;D ;D

trafalgar_2

Yes it cost's them £1.20 for your item. I also thinks it's a cheek that they don't put postage on the envelopes. They can well afford it. That the reason I do internet banking or telephone banking. However the later was working out more expensive as the amount of time you were on hold.

I do as much of my stuff on line as possible

It's a lot easier and I'm GLAD it costs them

It's a real pain

I think they are in league with the refuse/recycling people :-/

LD

I have a friend who encloses a letter thanking the company for their interest in his business along with an administration bill for his reply for anything from £5 to £25. Apparantly 8 out of 10 companies pay up...........and never send anything again ;D

I think thats a excellent idea

AndieJ_2

About sending junk mail back to who sent it as in...
...I usually swap the junk around so they all get each others cr*p  ;)

I have a friend who encloses a letter thanking the company for their interest in his business along with an administration bill for his reply for anything from £5 to £25. Apparantly 8 out of 10 companies pay up...........and never send anything again ;D

now me like your friend, tell him/her I said hi & nice one!!.

robnye

in the past i have tried several ways of venting my anger at companies that send junk mail

1) return reply paid envelopes empty... obviously companies still send junk mail
2)return reply paid envelopes with original contents torn up.... companies have actually sent me the item for veiwing, so switched to 3
3) returned original contents with comment relating to 'not interested'

also registered with the non junk mail companies as mentioned previously.
I like the idea of sending them an invoice, so as and when i get more, i will follow that route..


currently killing lots of spam emails.... cant send them an invoice though.......

Marcus

A friend get's the hump with this.

Depending on his stress levels and the amount of anger he wants to inflict on a company he'll stick the "free post" envelope to an object:
mildly irritated - a small stone
angry - a brick
fuming - a breeze block.

Apparently the companies that receive the mail have to pay for the extra weight.

Fantastic.

zcaprd7

Its not just weight, its size as well...

You should stick it to a large box?

Trix, can you post a template letter so we can fill in the blanks and send it off?

Raeble didn't get much sympathy! Serves him right, if you want a decent response at least use a freepost postcard (not hard, costs about £150 a year for the license + 25p odd per returned item, no charge if they are binned).

I don't see why the CC companies have to pay for your billing envelope - money saved is used to provide jubbly 0% apr deals? (same goes for all the people going mad about national rate numbers?)

student100

I agree with all the stuff about the junk mail, but I think that you should have to pay for a stamp if you send a cheque to a credit card company etc.

If you paid by direct debit/online transfer etc. (as I do) it is cheaper for them to receive the payment than to process a cheque. If they had to pay the cost of postage when you sent a cheque it would cost even more money which they have to charge to customers one way or the other.

If I was in charge and people sent in cheques without sufficient postage, I would either not accept the mail so they had to pay late payment fees, or just bill the postage to their card account. This should be built into the card terms and conditions!