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We want your business.
Discover Card wants my business. It was a delight to fill out there application with big letters " take me off your mailing list, Clinton Lovers"! The envolope to return( postage paid by addressee) reads (time sensitive information, process immediately) They will surely open this missive up and be dismayed that it is not another application to ask for there usury rates after six months. If this is an extensive mail out we could cost them a few bucks postage and get our message across also. If you get a request for application in mail please consider responding the Freeper way.
I had a roommate once who used to fill the postage prepaid reply envelope full of lead sinkers to increase the cost of postage and sent it back. He said that it increased their postage costs. I don't know if it is true or not, but the thought of thousands of discovery card envelopes filled with a pound of sinkers makes me laugh.
Great Idea! And maybe write inside:
DISCOVER THIS!
Lead is fairly valuable. There are cheaper alternatives.
BTT DISCOVER CARD LEAD WEIGHTS GOOD
I will steam open the reply mail and place the lead weight in. How about a fish hook also?
Messes up the postal machines. It will just jack up the postal rates again,
I wish I had a watermelon.... I wish I had a watermelon ....
FREEP THE CREEP!
Well now I don't want to mess up snail mail but if I put in a fish hook with rancid bait I'm sure to catch a few bottom feeders. Seriously, bump this to see how extensive there mail out is. I guess the word "is" should be was.
You know what I discovered? That no one takes the damn card!
Simply attach the front of the envelope to a brick.
Wrap up a brick in a tidy manner and attach the return envelope to the brick with that nifty 2 inch wide tape for sealing packages. Then it will not damage the post office machines and will be treated as a package.
Hey Dinosaur person. Consider the Creep Freeped!
I got one! I got one!
Simply attach the front of the envelope to a brick.
I've heard of that one before. Does it work?
Hey Meto let us know how really creative you are in replying
I just got a Discover application yesterday. But what makes you think that they are Clinton supporters?
Dean Witter and Morgan Stanley are parent corp or Discover. They are the ones backing off after flap of Bill clinton speech
Simply attach the front of the envelope to a brick.
I've heard of that one before. Does it work?
How do you think they built the all brick US Postal Headquarters Building in DC?
You might get sued if someone stabs themselves with that hook. Just use the rancid bait and put in a note telling them that their support of the Clintons stinks just as bad as the bait.
Listen up, you jokers, the PO already knows how to deal with you.
If you do something to a BRM not intended by the permit holder, the BRM just gets pitched. It doesn't cause Discover any extra incurred expenses or effort if you try to mail bricks, it never makes it past the PO you mailed it at. And don't get caught mailing dog poo or other disgusting stuff, it's illegal.
The best suggestion is writing "Take me off your list for whatever reason," and mail that back in the BRM. Costs the recipient the 34 cents first class plus 2 cents handling, and the time and hassle of opening and processing your complaint, which is much more costly.
Let me share my postal knowledge with FReepers so your items will not be returned and the company will the highest rates posible.
The envelope may not be taped to another package or larger envelope(the company would have provided you with a lable if that was their intent).
Only paper may be mailed(no odd shaped or foreign material) in letter envelopes. The obvious damage to mechanization and people listed above is correct.
However you may fill the envelope with folded paper and tape the back causing the company to have to pay the postage of the weight of the item plus a fee that ranges acording to that companies volume and permits paid.
A packed envelope may cost them $1-2. A better protest value than calling a 1-800 number.
ExUDe mrs meadsjn
Everyone thanks for ideas. My main gist is to simply tell them you do not like them paying criminals to speak at their confabs and will not ever do business with them. This type of reply, if enough of us participate, will eventually go up the ladder to the budget director and further.
A packed envelope may cost them $1-2. A better protest value than calling a 1-800 number.
What about responding to requests for donations by enclosing a roll of pennies?
Ha ha! I'm finding out the same thing.
"Discover? Oh no, we don't take that" or "What's that?"
FREEPERS! Do not mail anything illegal! You could go to prison for a loooooooong time. You can get a list of things that cannot be mailed at any Post Office. If you are too lazy to get the list, use common sense.
The government takes this kind of thing very seriously. DON'T DO IT. I am serious about this one.
Ah yes, the card that pays you back. Pays you back 1% on your total purchases but charges you 22-23% and if you add in late fees and such, you can have an effective interest rate that is much, much higher than that. But hey, you're getting your 1%, right?
Cliff! Is that you?
Cliff! Is that you? No it isn't, in fact, it ain't nobody. Cheers.
If you really, really, wanna drive people nuts, do this. Take-a-buncha newspaper clippings and on one, just-a one, tape a folded up-a-dolla bill. Fold-a it up really-a small-a. Wrapp-a it all in-a blank sheet-a paper, write on-a it $1 donation, send me-a thank you. Put-a it inn-a envelope, mail with name on-a return address.
But if you like the charity, put a first class stamp in the normal place, on top of the permit square. The charities take these down to the PO for a refund of the fee. For a charity that's connecting to its donors, more than a third of the envelopes will bear postage.
A way back when the banks charged 5% interest charge and FHA loans were in that percentage, also, the only organization charging 8 % were the Mafia related banks. We have come a long way, baby!
Go to the fishing supply store and get a jar of bait strips (gator bait is best for vile smell). The strips are like long pieces of those canned bamboo shoots.
It will fit perfectly in the envelope and you can't get the smell off of anything it touches.
I have a jar that my grandpa gave me that was purchased in 1979 and it still stinks. I keep it on the bottom shelf so if it falls it won't break open and stink up the whole garage.
Good idea about stink bait but I really am not targeting a lowly employee whose main job all day is to open and distribute mail. I will keep this in mind if I can go direct to the perp who wrote the $ 100,000 plus check to X-42
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