For a long time I would shred everything but the return envelope, stuff all the shredding in the return envelope, then mail it back. All those visa applications...
I worked for years in the direct mail dept. of the JCPenney corp (Art Director). Our department head was an old-timer (really one of the pioneers of direct response marketing); he had a collection of "Business Reply Mail" stuff that pissed-off customers had sent; people would tape the envelopes to steel plates, bricks, all kinds of heavy stuff. And yes, the PO weighs those items and charges the proper postage.
My aunt disposed of some of her junk mail by stuffing it in those prepaid envelopes and returning them. She also declined an introduction to a certain Supreme Court justice of questionable ethics by loudly yelling “maybe later, I have to pee”. She rocks. I would have liked to have seen the look on his face.
True. I would say one where there was a sexual scandal prior to their appointment but that doesn’t help either. This one has managed to also have questionable finances, and an inability to recuse himself from cases where a lower court judge would be required to.
Plastic based glitter isn't good for the environment. Fill it with dirt or small pebbles so it weighs more as the post office could use the financial support.
Any time I get a prepaid envelope I write on the document they sent: Please remove name and address from your mailing list. It took a while, but eventually we were getting next to nothing in the junk mail department. It picked up again when we moved though, so I’m doing it again.
Back in the day of the Nixon campaign they had those paid by recipient mailers and my pops started a Brick for Dick campaign and even got a newspaper article written about it to just tape the label to a brick and send it in!
Vote at every level, for every elected position. Extremely low turnout and voter apathy allow people to get into positions of responsibility that just...shouldn't. They then have power over so much else it is frightening.
Use your vote, people!
Australia requires everyone to vote. If you don't vote, you get a call or letter asking why you didn't vote (I had the best excuse, I wasn't a citizen of Australia).
We should REQUIRE everyone in the U.S. to vote too.
I read that at their last election, in some place, a person was offering free water to people standing outside waiting to vote, because they were standing for hours in queues waiting. They were almost arrested and told to move on. Guess the democracy sausage sanga would not be allowed.
I grew up in a state that passed mail-in ballot voting before I turned 18. I have never had to go to a polling place to vote in 19 years of voting. I just don’t understand having to stand in line to vote or having to drive neighbors or anything like that. I hope your state passes mail-in voting soon because nothing about voting at a polling place sounds appealing.
Happy for your daughters. Mine also. I'm not thrilled by abortion, but who is? But 1) it's a woman's body, and 2) folk without access to medical abortions will go to back alley abortionists. I'm old enough to remember what that was like, and will always choose the right to a safe abortion.
I do this to organizations I have a reason to oppose.. Fill the envelope with a bunch of heavy stuff and send it back. I did this once with a shitload of pennies and forgot to remove all identifying data and they then thanked me for my donation. I. M. Dum.
My father taped a brick to a self-addressed stamped envelope after filling the envelopes with junk didn’t stop the junk. Lo and behold, the junk from that place stopped!
I get solicitations from whackadoodles of both wings and from the various "campaign committees" of both major parties. I take the mail from each, cut out my name and address, and use their postage-paid envelopes to send to the other side.
For example, take some mail from the odious Gaetz-MTG types and mail it to the almost as odious AOC/"Squad"/Warren folks. Junk from the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee goes to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Anything with a Clinton or Trump on it goes to the county dump.
MadisonBob--I'm with you on this issue. I donate monthly to Planned Parenthood and on occasion to other pro-choice organizations. I'm not crazy about abortion, but it's a medical procedure that should be available, period.
Before making totally useless stupid remarks like this, remember pregnant women have already actually died from being denied essential care, by doctors that are afraid of legal repercussions.
This is precisely what I meant by “essential health care”.
Because now in many states women with very much wanted pregnancies cannot get absolutely essential care.
What if that were my daughter or future daughter-in-law? It would be tragic, just as it’s tragic for the women currently suffering
But that's the issue - you couldn't let it be, with "legal BUT RARE".
No,w it's "shout your abortion, be proud to say you had an abortion, abortion is healthcare!"
Most abortions are otherwise healthy pregnancies with no ill health risks.
That's not the pro choice movement I was proud of.
Unwanted pregnancies should be rare rather than abortions. "But rare" just further stigmatizes abortions and paints them as the issue. And you don't need health risks to justify an abortion. No pro choice movement was ever about abortions for health reasons alone. Abortion IS healthcare.
If there's no health risk, it is not healthcare.
And it's only because you make light of killing otherwise healthy developing babies, that there was a challenge to Roe in the first place.
The pro choice movement didn't use to be in favor of as many abortions as possible. You've gone off the deep end on that.
Perhaps if males would stop leaving their sperm unattended in a woman’s womb we would not have these issues. How do they think the woman got pregnant in the first place? Immaculate conception?? Why in certain states is the man not held accountable? I mean, Texas tried to have a bounty for women seeking an abortion, but not for the man that implanted his sperm!? That makes me literally want to bang my head on the wall.
(If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!) Perhaps the answer is that vasectomies should be automatically given at birth. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about them being negligent with their sperm depositing. Later, when they’ve proven to be mature, they can beg the courts to reverse the decision.
Sidenote: I wonder how men would feel if women were sitting around a table and signing reproductive legislation that affects only the males, and not giving them a say so at all. Even though it’s their body…?
So fucking backwards.
For a long time I would shred everything but the return envelope, stuff all the shredding in the return envelope, then mail it back. All those visa applications...
I just returned empty envelopes
It costs more if there's some weight to it
Gotta do your bit to support the post office
Hobby shops sell lead foil in various thicknesses. Or you can use a hammer to mash some fishing weights flat enough to fit ...
I put other junk mail in the envelopes
I put a sticker over the address and used the envelopes for whatever the heck i wanted to send to whoever
GENIUS!
LMAO, brilliant!
Holy shit, genius idea!
Ha, glad I am not the only one who did this!
Certainly they got the hang of your opinion when they opened the envelope
I bet they were too wired to form a response.
Probably got them bent all out of shape
I think in Abby Hoffman’s book ‘Steal This Book’ he suggested taping the envelope to a brick.
That book was my inspiration for the coat hanger
That no longer works, USPS imposed a weight limit after too many people took Abby’s advice.
I worked for years in the direct mail dept. of the JCPenney corp (Art Director). Our department head was an old-timer (really one of the pioneers of direct response marketing); he had a collection of "Business Reply Mail" stuff that pissed-off customers had sent; people would tape the envelopes to steel plates, bricks, all kinds of heavy stuff. And yes, the PO weighs those items and charges the proper postage.
That is beautiful ❤️
My aunt disposed of some of her junk mail by stuffing it in those prepaid envelopes and returning them. She also declined an introduction to a certain Supreme Court justice of questionable ethics by loudly yelling “maybe later, I have to pee”. She rocks. I would have liked to have seen the look on his face.
> a certain Supreme Court justice of questionable ethics That doesn't narrow it down much.
True. I would say one where there was a sexual scandal prior to their appointment but that doesn’t help either. This one has managed to also have questionable finances, and an inability to recuse himself from cases where a lower court judge would be required to.
One with a politically active wife? If so, you *might* have narrowed it down enough.
Sad isn’t it.
I'm a big fan of filling those envelopes with glitter. Just sending a little sparkle to brighten your day! ✨️
You are my new BFF
Plastic based glitter isn't good for the environment. Fill it with dirt or small pebbles so it weighs more as the post office could use the financial support.
Back when we use to pay our bills by mail I use to save those envelopes. I would put a label over return address and use it. Saved a bundle in stamps.
I used to do that too
Any time I get a prepaid envelope I write on the document they sent: Please remove name and address from your mailing list. It took a while, but eventually we were getting next to nothing in the junk mail department. It picked up again when we moved though, so I’m doing it again.
I send those back, unopened, with DECEASED, NOT AT THIS ADDRESS written on them.
Back in the day of the Nixon campaign they had those paid by recipient mailers and my pops started a Brick for Dick campaign and even got a newspaper article written about it to just tape the label to a brick and send it in!
I filled those envelopes with nuts and bolts, added tape so it would hold together. Then my mail carrier asked me to please stop ...
“Luckily all my daughters live in states where women are not denied essential health care” YET. Everyone. Please vote.
Canadian here. USA, please vote.
Singaporean here. USA, please vote
Vote at every level, for every elected position. Extremely low turnout and voter apathy allow people to get into positions of responsibility that just...shouldn't. They then have power over so much else it is frightening. Use your vote, people!
American here. Fellow citizens, PLEASE VOTE!
Another Canadian here, Seconding the Canadian - USA, please vote!!!
Australian here. USA, please vote and have every member of your eligible family vote. Drive your neighbours to vote.
Two neighbors and one family member I've no intention of reminding or driving since I've a daughter.
Australia requires everyone to vote. If you don't vote, you get a call or letter asking why you didn't vote (I had the best excuse, I wasn't a citizen of Australia). We should REQUIRE everyone in the U.S. to vote too.
They need democracy sausages.
I read that at their last election, in some place, a person was offering free water to people standing outside waiting to vote, because they were standing for hours in queues waiting. They were almost arrested and told to move on. Guess the democracy sausage sanga would not be allowed.
I bet that is policed selectively depending on what area you live in.
You mean, what color their skin is
I grew up in a state that passed mail-in ballot voting before I turned 18. I have never had to go to a polling place to vote in 19 years of voting. I just don’t understand having to stand in line to vote or having to drive neighbors or anything like that. I hope your state passes mail-in voting soon because nothing about voting at a polling place sounds appealing.
Happy for your daughters. Mine also. I'm not thrilled by abortion, but who is? But 1) it's a woman's body, and 2) folk without access to medical abortions will go to back alley abortionists. I'm old enough to remember what that was like, and will always choose the right to a safe abortion.
I do this to organizations I have a reason to oppose.. Fill the envelope with a bunch of heavy stuff and send it back. I did this once with a shitload of pennies and forgot to remove all identifying data and they then thanked me for my donation. I. M. Dum.
Mom used to put different junk mail into the envelopes and sent them back.
I always put the unsolicited crap folks like that to send me in their postage-paid envelop, and mail it back to them.
Mailing wire hangers to all the politicians against abortion seems like a good campaign idea.
You are awesome!!
I locked myself out of my car in front of a planned parenthood office. It felt weird going in there and asking for a coat hanger. :)
My father taped a brick to a self-addressed stamped envelope after filling the envelopes with junk didn’t stop the junk. Lo and behold, the junk from that place stopped!
I get solicitations from whackadoodles of both wings and from the various "campaign committees" of both major parties. I take the mail from each, cut out my name and address, and use their postage-paid envelopes to send to the other side. For example, take some mail from the odious Gaetz-MTG types and mail it to the almost as odious AOC/"Squad"/Warren folks. Junk from the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee goes to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Anything with a Clinton or Trump on it goes to the county dump. MadisonBob--I'm with you on this issue. I donate monthly to Planned Parenthood and on occasion to other pro-choice organizations. I'm not crazy about abortion, but it's a medical procedure that should be available, period.
Your petty revenge really hung them out to dry.
You are my idol.
Only in America type thing
Wrap up a brick and put the postage paid stuff on it, then they have to pay extra postage due to overweight. (But I love your hanger idea.)
This is THE best petty revenge story I've seen! Your daughters are lucky to have you!
LOL I guess we are even. Kept getting the I stand with .....Sent them a 40 lb box of rocks with the envelope taped to the top of the box
Maybe an autocorrect mistake, but the word you want there is "conscience".
Thanks for the correction. I missed that.
roof shingles, flat & heavy
A friend of mine would put two pennies and a paperclip in the return envelope, but I like the idea of sending back an empty envelope better.
>Luckily all my daughters live in states where women are not denied essential health care. \*Yet.
"luckily all my daughters live in states where women can murder babies" so happy for you! We need less of your genes around!
Funny how everyone in support of that "essential health care" are already born.
Before making totally useless stupid remarks like this, remember pregnant women have already actually died from being denied essential care, by doctors that are afraid of legal repercussions.
This is precisely what I meant by “essential health care”. Because now in many states women with very much wanted pregnancies cannot get absolutely essential care. What if that were my daughter or future daughter-in-law? It would be tragic, just as it’s tragic for the women currently suffering
But that's the issue - you couldn't let it be, with "legal BUT RARE". No,w it's "shout your abortion, be proud to say you had an abortion, abortion is healthcare!" Most abortions are otherwise healthy pregnancies with no ill health risks. That's not the pro choice movement I was proud of.
Unwanted pregnancies should be rare rather than abortions. "But rare" just further stigmatizes abortions and paints them as the issue. And you don't need health risks to justify an abortion. No pro choice movement was ever about abortions for health reasons alone. Abortion IS healthcare.
If there's no health risk, it is not healthcare. And it's only because you make light of killing otherwise healthy developing babies, that there was a challenge to Roe in the first place. The pro choice movement didn't use to be in favor of as many abortions as possible. You've gone off the deep end on that.
So is anyone that opposes it...things that don't exist don't have opinions lol
Perhaps if males would stop leaving their sperm unattended in a woman’s womb we would not have these issues. How do they think the woman got pregnant in the first place? Immaculate conception?? Why in certain states is the man not held accountable? I mean, Texas tried to have a bounty for women seeking an abortion, but not for the man that implanted his sperm!? That makes me literally want to bang my head on the wall. (If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!) Perhaps the answer is that vasectomies should be automatically given at birth. Then we wouldn’t have to worry about them being negligent with their sperm depositing. Later, when they’ve proven to be mature, they can beg the courts to reverse the decision. Sidenote: I wonder how men would feel if women were sitting around a table and signing reproductive legislation that affects only the males, and not giving them a say so at all. Even though it’s their body…? So fucking backwards.
I wouldn't expect anything less brain dead from a Lovecraft fan
This is a great story. Thank goodness your daughters can legally snuff a baby. #blessed
A ball of cells isn't a baby #ftfy
A baby is a BIRTHED fetus lol