| Author | Message | ||
     Pkforbes87 |
http://www.monkeyfaq.com/mail/index.html | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
wow so it ended up only costing them 5 cents | ||
| Froggy |
I am still using up my 29 cent stamps, nothing has been returned for inadequate postage yet.  | ||
| Preybird1 |
I bet it jammed the hell out of there sorting machine! | ||
| Hootowl |
I have put money in the mailbox with unstamped mail. My mailman carries stamps with him, and will put one on if you give him the money. This sort of innocent "let's see what happens when we do this" stunt can unfortunately end up getting people in trouble. They probably violated some obscure law, and since they're advertising their feat on the Internet, someone will likely try to enforce it. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
I havent mailed a letter in years, its been decades since I have received anything of value from the Postal service. I am considering changing my name to Junq Mayle , at least then I would feel that the cr@p arrived to its intended recipient. My next house will not have a mail box. | ||
| Froggy |
+1 to that Slicker, I want to replace the mailbox with something like a garbage can shed that way I can still receive Uly size packages no problem. Other than Netflix, I got no incoming mail. Oh I got a handful of Xmas cards this year, yet I have never gotten any before, so I promise to send out some next time | ||
| Skinstains |
I always wanted to switch the mail to address with the return address and not use any postage at all. Could be a real money saver the way cost's keep going up. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
My friend in college WAS able to game the system. He put is intended recipient as the return address with his address as the recipient address and no postage. They returned the letters to the return address for lack of postage. The trick is that you can't drop in in the mailbox around the corner. He would drop it off in the next town's mailbox. Worked like a charm. | ||
| Froggy |
All to save 39 cents | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
I save all my junk mail for a week or so, then I go through it stuffing everybody elses stuff into everybody elses prepaid envelopes. I figure if the post can make enough money on their corporate customers they won't put stamp prices up so readily. | ||
| Aesquire |
Gee thanks you criminal jerks. Since the only time the Post office gets tax money is when it loses big money, you are screwing yourself. The reason for all the junk mail is the decline in civil discourse by first class letter. You have to pay for the mail carrier to go everywhere anyway. It's a non profit company that, when it actually makes a profit, Congress takes it without thanks or IOU. Face it, a Coke has gone from 5 cents to $1.49. Stamps are 42 cents. You can't drive to the post office for that much. It's the biggest bargain out there. Don't blame me for the stupid prices, that's a government committee. | ||
| Aesquire |
Thanks, Mr Grumpy. I have a favorite customer who pulls all the post cards out of his magazines, stamps, "pay the mailman" on them & drops them in a mail box. He figures if they have to pay for it they will quit making a mess. ( good luck, but thanks for all the fish. ) | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Don't mention it, the pleasure's all mine, in knowing I'm keeping people in work all over the world, making paper & making ink & making machinery to fold letters, not to mention those heroes that deliver them. Imagining the WTF looks on peoples faces when they open the returning envelopes is just the icing on the cake. A simple pleasure that brings benefit to so many. Do you think it'll qualify me for sainthood?  | ||
| Danger_dave |
St Prick of the Frogs. :-P | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Gee thanks you criminal jerks. I was waiting for our version of Dilbert's garbage man to post in here. Interesting story. A job I had in the late 90's as the sole US employee for an Indonesian company. Well I had to do a lot a mailings. When the company folded, my "severance" package was $300 worth of stamps, and ~100 boxes of reject shoes.  Since I rarely send anything, those stamps stuck around for a long time. Of course the post office raised rates (thank heavens for the new lifetime stamp), so I had to get a big roll of penny stamps. One day I had to send an oversized letter. That of course was the day my original stamp rolls went missing. So I ended up covering the entire letter with penny stamps. Ever since that day I have had lackluster mail service. I agree with Mudbug the days of me having a mail box are come to an end. | ||
| Pammy |
Grumpy, I have been doing that for years. I added expired coupons and anything I was going to put into the trash. Recently I have noticed that they put a little upc code on all the correspondence, including the envelopes. I make sure that I mark through all that before I send it back and I only put the original senders crap(after some modification) in their own envelope. They put a warning on the envelope warning against using it for other purposes and I am just not that much of a rebel...  | ||
| Kyrocket |
I'm with Pammy and Grumpy. If I have to open their crap, unsolicited, unwanted junk mail why can't they open mine? The recipient has to pay someone to open and process it don't they? I want my incentive for creating a job | ||
| Preybird1 |
LOL incentive for creating a job.  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Thinking that there is a market in auto shredder mail boxes. cuz you know you just cant throw that shi@t away. The Id thieves love it, its got your name, your address, maybe a credit score, a little internet digging and you are off to the races. So the box is on top, and down the support pole of the box is a shredder, a container at the bottom for dumping into the recycling bin... SINCE THEY WONT STOP SENDING YOU THE CR@P no matter how many lists you get on... My other idea is a mail box filled with concrete, with the placard, all Post return to Sender. The notion of 'A penny for your thoughts' never was meant to be a consoling comment that it is today, it started as a protest against the postal service because they were in a sense charging a penny for post and back in the day those were your thoughts. | ||
| Spiderman |
SINCE THEY WONT STOP SENDING YOU THE CR@P no matter how many lists you get on... I'm trying to remedy this right now, I send back all the junk they send me in the pre-paid envelope they send me, BUT I add a little extra. I grab a fresh rabbit turd from my compost jar for the garden, Put it in-between the pages and smash it on the counter | ||
| Hootowl |
You guys need to be VERY careful about what you're sending through the mail. Federal law applies, and I'm sure there's some overzealous prosecutor out there dying to make an example out of someone. | ||
| Xl1200r |
I am so going to start sending junk mail back. Thanks for the ideas, guys. | ||
| Pammy |
To keep completely legal, I now only send back the stuff that came in the envelope...but I include the envelope. Now, for that magazine subscription confetti that comes in magazines....I have a much more devious use for that....BWHahahaha | ||
| Froggy |
How do you know they wont start sending you even more? Rather than just throwing it out, they know you are taking the time to view their materials. | ||
| Aesquire |
By the way, the ripped off corner in the top post? That's what happens when you put a pin ( like a Brag pin ) in a regular envelope....and it runs through the machines at 60mph. I notice the postage $ is still there. You know those real annoying coupon collections you get? Where its all slippery paper, different sizes, and falls apart as you pick it up? That's deliberate, some guys figured out if you have to pick up a coupon from the floor, you are more likely to use it. So it's designed to come apart & make a mess. We hate those. |
