When I was in college my roommates and I would open all those offers standing at the mailbox, seal the empty envelopes back up, then put then right back in the mailbox for the carrier to grab the next day (or maybe mail thieves, who knows). We figured just mailing them all back was going to cost something.
I did the same, wrote in the letter for them to suck my balls… They called me back lol
Well… Did they suck your balls?
Unfortunately no
I’m curious what they have to say to that!
When I was first out of college I used to get 8-10 of pre-payed envelopes every week. I kept a PO box for my mail that I would check weekly.
I would have maybe 1 or two pieces of real mail and a full box of junk.
So I started folding up the junk mail I to the 8-10 prepared envelopes every week. This was all done at the counter next to my PO box and dropped mailed back right then.
It was quite cathartic.
I fart in the envelopes then they are like ‘yay someone wants our credit card OH NO ITS FARTS!’
Aaaah pink eye!
I read this as you wrote it: “its farts”, like the envelope has farts, vs “it is farts”. Both are technically correct, but seems so much funnier that way.
Basically the same thing they do when they send these things in unmarked envelopes.
I know/hope this is a joke but people used to do this at an independent, third party, mail sorting place I worked at as a teenager.
They’d mail all sorts of shit (both literal and figurative) and it was basically handled by one guy who seemed ok with it but was definitely not ok.
Mail them lead, weights, whatever. But please, no matter how despicable the company, there’s likely some at very least mildly abused worker who is just trying to earn a wage and has to deal with the vile shit people try to punish companies with.
Wouldn’t a lead weight cost you more than it costs them? Lead is reasonably expensive.
Ok, rocks or whatever junk you have laying around.
This. Your mail isn’t going to be opened by the CEO. Hurt the business, not the worker. Mail them a box of rocks or something, the company will pay postage on it and the minimum wage guy opening packages will laugh.
All spam should be responded to in kind.
WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE
I have long fantasized about doing this exact same thing, especially to MAGA-types who somehow got my address and are mailing me requests for donations. Someone in those groups as well as THE SALVATION ARMY have discovered that those postage guaranteed reply envelopes cost money and prompt this response. So now all that stuff requires a stamp if you want to reply. I hope that’s cut down on their fundraising efforts.
What is wrong with the salvation army? Sometimes go in there looking for board games when we check if any of the charity shops have any games beyond 50 versions of monopoly and trivia pursuit.
They are anti-LGBT. I don’t have a source handy for you at the moment so encourage you to search it up.
I’ve bought quite a few items of clothing of the “wrong gender” from them…
- In 1998, the Salvation Army refused to comply with San Francisco’s laws regarding domestic-partner benefits, costing it $3.5 million in city contracts and leading to the closure of certain programs for homeless people and the elderly.
- In 2001, the organization tried to strike a deal with the Bush administration, which would have allowed religious charities that receive federal funding to circumvent local ordinances against anti-LGBTQ discrimination. (The organization also threatened to stop all of its New York City operations in 2004.)
- In 2012, a Salvation Army branch in Vermont was accused of firing a case worker after learning she was bisexual.
- Also in 2012, Salvation Army spokesperson George Hood said the organization views same-sex relationships as sinful. “A relationship between same-sex individuals is a personal choice that people have the right to make,” Hood said at the time. “But from a church viewpoint, we see that going against the will of God.”
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/16/21003560/salvation-army-anti-lgbtq-controversies-donations
the christian holiness movement offshoot organized in actual army ranks under red banners emblazoned with their literal motto “blood and fire”? idk but i could pick out a few things that seem… off
Are we even thinking of the same organisation? Never seen that, but maybe they keep it hidden round the back as it would put off customers. I live in the UK, not sure if that makes a difference
Salvation Army is more than just a thrift store. They use that to fund their other stuff.
Don’t forget the literal slavery at their rehab centers!
They’re Christians and you know how bad Christians are, with all the volunteering and the charity and the do-gooders and all
Your history is full of bad takes. Maybe pay attention to those downvotes and think about it.
That’s the fun part, I don’t care. I’ve seen what you guys upvote, and it disgusts me.
You like apartheid South Africa. Your disgust is a badge of honor to a moral person.
No I don’t, wtf are talking about? Are you mixing me up with someone else? I’ve done the same thing if that’s the case
Oh you’re one of those people who like to see the world burn, gotcha
Let me guess, all the Christians except for the Palestinian ones, right?
There aren’t any Palestinian Christians left after what Hamas did. Do you not know the history of the area? It’s fucked up.
I suggest you go research it yourself, I’m just a random commenter on the Internet and there’s way more credible sources out there
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Christians
You believe complete lies and make shit up about Gaza, and Palestinians, and know nothing about the region while thinking you’re an expert and justifying the ongoing genocide.
These are the people that the Pope has been calling every day while they’ve had a complete blockade of all food since Mar 2nd.
You’re right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Palestine
Christians make up an entire 0.2% of Gaza after the genocides. Sunni Muslims only make up 99% of Gaza. They should finish the job, a final solution if you will.
I guess the fact that there are only 3000 of them in Gaza makes it okay to starve them or rape them to death in a genocidal campaign like the Israeli’s are doing?
Go justify torture camps and genocide somewhere else.
Well… he hasn’t called the past few days.
And you know this because…?
God hooked him up with a line, still, damnit. He’s not free til the new guy gets in
That’s actually a large boulder; it’s just the size of a small boulder.
We won’t ever know unless they included a fresh banana for size.
Got any Carlos?
I like that boulder. That is a nice boulder.
I used to get a ton of garbage mail at an apartment i lived at. I’d just take as many of the coupon booklets from my box, jam them into one of those return envelops, and stuff it back into the outgoing mail box.
Check the barcode on the bottom and make sure it doesn’t have your information in it.
What can they do? Send you more junk mail?
Why? I don’t care if they know I sent it. Maybe they’ll be less likely to fuck with me any more.
Of course I haven’t checked my mail since 2020 when I got a stimulus check. I don’t even have an ID showing my address anymore. It’s still my old house
I just put another company’s junk mail in their envelope and send it to them so they know how it feels.
IF you’re going to do this, make sure use some sort of sealed package (like the box in the photo). You used to be able to slap these things on like a sheet of plywood and just send it as is but now if the package isn’t sealed and is obvious misuse the post office can just throw it in the dumpster. If its a sealed package then the post office has to deliver it and the permit holder has to pay the charges. https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2019/pb22525/html/updt_001.htm
Like 70lbs of neutronium in a USPS flat rate box?
Considering the density of neutronium, a 70 lb piece would be about the size of a dust mote, if not much smaller. Good luck getting a standard box to hold something that small and dense.
The joke here is that neutronium might be the only substance dense enough to actually weigh 70lbs and still be able to fit into a flat rate box, which has set dimensions and a limit of 70lbs.
Hmm… Where can I get a bunch of tungsten? 🤔
Amazon. Their rings are pretty cheap.
Huh. I should try this with the old refrigerator in my basement that I’ve been needing to get rid of.
If it wasn’t shitty towards the post office people I would support it.
But under 10 lbs…
Sadly we have a weight and size limit on these, but if you can load a mini fridge and keep it under 70lbs it should be accepted.
Legally this is not shipping advice and purely a shitpost
Shiptost.
There is no way that those prepaid postage meant for a letter is gonna be good for 70lb.
The postal service has to have lower cost optionsThey’re actually not prepaid, they’re counted as postage due at the destination office and either charged to their account automatically or paid at the time of pickup.
There are lower cost options like nonprofit or third class postage, but that’s usually what they’re paying to send out the junk with these business reply envelopes in the first place. Business reply mail AFAIK is charged at the first class postage rates.
I know it’s not technically prepaid.
But it’s wild that the postal service wouldn’t have an option here to only accept letters.
Probably one of those cases where it’s only allowed because there’s no rule specifically forbidding it, and some determined individual figured out it worked one day.
That’s the business’ risk for sending those prepaid envelopes out. From the USPS site itself “[Moreover, when a BRM card or envelope is misused and affixed to a sealed item, the permit holder will be responsible for payment of the applicable Retail postage and per piece fee.]
But it also says
DMM 505.1.4.8, “Labels,” states that in cases when a BRM card or envelope is misused as a BRM label, USPS® treats the item as waste.
BRM cards and envelopes are designed to be mailed as a First-Class Mail card, letter, or flat only, and not as a BRM label to be attached to other items.So I’m still a but fuzzy
So I’m still a butt fuzzy
Weird self-deprecating thing to say, and not sure how it relates, but best wishes with that!
Now you have to cut up your refrigerator into 10lbs pieces
What about the body inside?
Liquify and add to old beverage bottles. Simple and fun for the whole office upon opening!
This is how we save the USPS.
I could be wrong but I think these are prepaid, not paid on delivery…
These are indeed paid on delivery.
Let’s all do our part to help little boulders travel
Glaciers take millions of years to deposit boulders across the land.
Humans: “we can do better.”
If there’s one thing we’re good at, it’s moving rocks around
Are they an invasive species?
They can’t reproduce, should be fine.
Their reproduction cycle is weird but they multiply. Oddly enough all it takes is a couple of sold hits with a hammer and you’ll have a bunch of boulers instead of just one. They’ll be smaller but there will be more of them.
I need to start doing this with marketing crap. Except just rocks. Heavy, heavy rocks.
Friendly reminder.
Make sure that you use a box with no identifying information. Scribbling out the barcodes isnt enough.
Mailing restrictions still apply. Mailing them back rotting fish or potentially hazardous materials is a federal offence.
Mailing any kind of threat is also against the law.
If you’re concerned about your anonymity, keep in mind that companies frequently put ID numbers on their return envelopes to help match the returned mail piece with your record in their database. Sometimes the number is invisible (UV ink) so it doesn’t look “mass produced” to the recipient.
This wouldn’t work, anyway. They only prepay envelope postage, not a box.
You can fit a lot of glitter in a envelope.
You’d just be annoying some data entry employee.
Wasting their time is wasting their money.
Plus it helps the post office!
Calm down there, Satan.
A lot of reply paid stuff for large corporations is calculated on weight not on item count, depending on the sorting system used by the country/region in question so this might work sometimes but it depends on a lot of variables.
Doesn’t help when you use a return postage slip. They have unique codes. Being “just annoying” is probably the safest bet.
Is there a legal limit on the amount of farts I can put into an envelope?
Edit: I guess this really depends on the consistency of each fart, and the legal threshold of acceptable feces contamination (which can’t be zero). Anyways, does anyone know if they make airtight envelopes?
I sell abdominal gas collection catheters btw
I once sent a thick telephone book with “Return to Sender - not at this address” on it after receiving mail addressed the previous house owner. This was after receiving their junk mail over several years and returning it with the same message scribbled on the envelope. This tactic finally worked and stopped the junk mail coming.
This must’ve been a long time ago. Otherwise where would you find a phone book, let alone a thick one.
