Today, in the shadow of Seattle’s Space Needle, Maggie Hussey became the 100,000th person to sign the petition calling for a national Do Not Mail Registry. Maggie signed after a member of Forest Ethics’ outreach team delivered their patented smooth junk mail info-rap. It’s irresistible.
It’s fitting that this milestone signature happened in Seattle, recently named the greenest large city in the country and home to our next push for a Do Not Mail Resolution! San Francisco was first in March, and now it’s Seattle’s turn, with the city hopefully giving way to a Do Not Mail registry for Washington state and beyond!
I was going to propose a toast, but let’s save it for later. For now, we’ll just say that it’s great to be at six figures, and it’s great to be in Seattle. Onward and upward….
I have a suggestion.
If enough people were encouraged to anonymously stuff their non-addressed bulk mail and their empty junk reply envelopes into the outgoing mail slot, I think we could bring the USPS-DMA collusion to its knees. Doing this would drive up their costs and force them to recycle the paper. Plus it saves the mail recipient time! I realize this is civil disobedience, but it could catch on and work very quickly.
Thhis should be easier to do.
One thing that I found that has not always worked, but is fun to do is this. When you receive some junk mail that has a postage paid, self addressed envelope so you can send something back to the company, tape the envelope to a good sized box, put something real heavy inside the box (like bricks), then take the box to the post office to have it sent back to whoever sent it to you. When the post office weighs the box, they will bill the company for the shipping weight. I’ve done it a few times and have gotten one company to quit sending me junk.
i would sign it in less then 1 sec. The post office makes the real cash off bulk mail anyway and 41 or more cents to mail somthing what a joke.
The large chains stores love this. They are big enought to use TV and radio ads. Only the small businesses, have to use direct mail. This is great if your are a supporter of Walmart, or Pappa Johns pizza. But if your the local Moms & Pop business, too bad, the DO NOT MAIL REGISTER, will block your only form of advertising.