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10-14-2006, 10:05 AM #1
No Thanks Capital One
It's not a clever or original trick but I'm tired of shredding all the shit they send me and having to haul it to the dump.
So every time Capital One sends me a credit card app and asks me to respond I write "no thanks" on it with a sharpie and cram it into the postage paid response envelope with all of the other crap they send.
Then I dream of a grass roots movement starting (cue up Alice's Restuarant) and go on to some other childish crap with which to entertain myself.Damn, we're in a tight spot!
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10-14-2006, 10:34 AM #2
I for one am a big fan of the following (Maddox)
We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open.
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10-14-2006, 11:41 AM #3
Andy Rooney has been advocating doing exactly that move for years, send companies back their junk mail with "not interested" on it. The way he explains it, it ends up costing them more money...this and that. he's also totally fucking insane and from what I can tell, bent on world domination and really focused on how much coffee is in a pound....no idea where I'm going with this. I'm gonna tap out and let this go.
thats new hampshire as fuck
We ain't eager to be legal, so please leave me with the keys to your Jeep Eagle.
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10-14-2006, 01:05 PM #4Funky But Chic
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You can actually do better than that. Return postage is guaranteed by the company so you can tape that envelope to anything (a cinder block, a brick, a big-ass rock) and it will be delivered to the company - at the first-class mail rate per ounce it weighs. Send 'em a 20-pound cinder block and it'll cost 'em like a hundred dollars.
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10-14-2006, 01:17 PM #5
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10-14-2006, 05:36 PM #6
unfortunately, that's no longer true. used to be a good trick though. this change is codified in Rule 917.243(b) in the Domestic Mail Manual: 'When a business reply card is “improperly used as a label”— such as being affixed to a brick—the package may be treated as “waste” and not delivered, which means no charge to the recipient.'
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10-14-2006, 06:57 PM #7
So...how many ball bearings can one fit into a pre-paid envelope?
"I smell varmint puntang."
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10-14-2006, 07:01 PM #8
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10-14-2006, 09:00 PM #9Funky But Chic
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10-15-2006, 01:31 AM #10glocal
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10-15-2006, 10:10 AM #11
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10-16-2006, 11:34 AM #12
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10-17-2006, 01:58 AM #13
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10-17-2006, 02:12 AM #14
They should still deliver something reasonable. Some of the mail-in film-->digital places tell you to just tape the return postage guaranteed card to a package to sent it to 'em... So maybe a brick won't do, but how about a phone book??
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10-17-2006, 07:47 AM #15Funky But Chic
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I think they might still deliver something that they can't tell what it is, like a sealed cardboard box with bricks inside, not sure though.
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