Using Pre-paid envelopes sent by credit card companies/banks

DontDoDebtKids

Hi all,

I read somewhere that you can use the pre-printed and pre-paid envelopes sent to you by banks etc. to send to wherever you want by sticking a label over the address printed on already.

Is this true? Are there any problems with doing this? Anyone else do this already?

DDDK :money:

Storm

Don't know about using them for other places, but in a Bill Bryson book i read he said that he shreds the loan/cc application and returns it to them in the envelope - it costs them money that way and hopefully annoys them. His theory was that if everyone did this they'd soon get fed up and it wouldn't be cost effective to bombard everyone with the offers! :rotfl:

kirkie_2

Storm wrote:

Don't know about using them for other places, but in a Bill Bryson book i read he said that he shreds the loan/cc application and returns it to them in the envelope - it costs them money that way and hopefully annoys them. His theory was that if everyone did this they'd soon get fed up and it wouldn't be cost effective to bombard everyone with the offers! :rotfl:

I do this all of the time.....

yung

kirkie wrote:

I do this all of the time.....

me too I have been doing it for quite a while now and it has been so effective I don't get any mailshot at all.

LeanneF

You could test this by posting something to yourself & wait for it to arrive.

To add the the excitment, stick a 20 pound note in

rog2

I used to just post them back empty, until I saw a post, on this forum, where someone put other junk mail leaflets, usually double glazing, in the envelopes. Apparently it costs the original company every time the envelope is used.
Just be careful to remove any reference to your own name and address from anything you put in an envelope.

moozie_2

My OH tried to use a pre-paid envelope to post something to himself - Just to test whether it works. He does get these funny ideas from time to time :rolleyes:

Well, about a week later, we got a card through the door while at work to say we have a letter to collect. Off he went to the post office and he had to pay not only the cost of a second class stamp but also £1 for the post office sorting the letter out :eek: :eek: :eek:

I think he learnt his lesson :rotfl: So, in answer to your question, no it doesn't work unless you send it back to whomever send it to you.

PS I LOVE the idea of posting forms etc back but don't really get that many after I registered with the mail restriction service.

klondyke

You can use the envelope to go somewhere else, by sticking a label over the original address, but you need to add your own stamps. I hardly ever buy new envelopes!!

rog2

klondyke wrote:

You can use the envelope to go somewhere else, by sticking a label over the original address, but you need to add your own stamps. I hardly ever buy new envelopes!!

Isn't that taking the DFW crusade just a bit too far?:rolleyes:

Broken_hearted

I rip it up and send it back. with the capital one I wrote leave us alone on it. I left the name bit on so hopefully they will take the hint.

woohoo_postingid

They can come in useful.

I recently cancelled my Scottish Widows DD as I found it impossible to contact anyone there. Needless to say, within a couple of days, I received a new DD mandate form for me to fill out with them saying there was an 'error'.

I used the envelope to send my letter of complaint.