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Tell the Big Banks What You Think (and Cost Them Money, Too!)
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The best way to do this is to include something fun, a comic strip or your favorite recipe. This way it costs the bank money for their junk mail and entertains the person they paying to open it (which would have to be a shitty job).
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Good ideas. Also, cancel your cable. Protest the corporate bullshit machine FOX. Cable is starting to crumble. Finish it off!
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Little Red Ryan Hood has a good idea and a good reminder: The person actually opening the mail has a shitty job, send them something entertaining.
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@1 for the win.
HDTV signals can burn thru your building. Just buy an antenna run to the outside or roof and the quality is epic. And free.
Also the on-air signal for KCTS 9.1 and 9.2 is way better at 1080p than the Comcast 1080i for that matter.
You can also d/l the free BloombergTV app for the iPad today or the Bloomberg radio app for the iPhone. And hear all the news they don't want Americans to hear about.
HDTV signals can burn thru your building. Just buy an antenna run to the outside or roof and the quality is epic. And free.
Also the on-air signal for KCTS 9.1 and 9.2 is way better at 1080p than the Comcast 1080i for that matter.
You can also d/l the free BloombergTV app for the iPad today or the Bloomberg radio app for the iPhone. And hear all the news they don't want Americans to hear about.
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I don't get credit card offers anymore, but the very last one I received before the economy implosion I tore up and sent back. But I get very testy about junk mail in general.
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@7:
If you watch the video all the way through, he suggests a novel way to get rid of all your OTHER junk mail, along with the credit card offers.
If you watch the video all the way through, he suggests a novel way to get rid of all your OTHER junk mail, along with the credit card offers.
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I love these ideas. What he doesn't mention is that doing these things also helps the cash-strapped USPS.
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Having worked at a facility that goes through this type of mail, I can tell you that 0% of messages will go to anyone, they'll go right into the trash. You may as well write your diatribe and throw it out yourself, it's much more efficient and eliminates the carbon footprint of shipping a letter to its destination.
I can also tell you that most of the messages you get inserted into these envelopes are religious in nature - mostly Chick Tracts. If there is a person most likely to be saved by Chick Tracts, it is the person who opens response envelopes. Very rarely, there is hand drawn pornography.
I can also tell you that most of the messages you get inserted into these envelopes are religious in nature - mostly Chick Tracts. If there is a person most likely to be saved by Chick Tracts, it is the person who opens response envelopes. Very rarely, there is hand drawn pornography.
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Meh. I did that for years and finally just got tired of it. The "satisfaction" of mailing their junk back to them wore off after a while and it's not like they stop sending it.
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My idea was to actually send in applications for the credit cards and then max the things out. Then send a letter to the credit card company informing them that you're never going to pay them back. Yes, I realize this would completely screw you, but if you could organize a couple million people to do this simultaneously it would be a pretty cool thing.
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@15 actually, it worked fairly well.
If you get thousands of people to do it on one day in many locations, it is very effective.
If you get thousands of people to do it on one day in many locations, it is very effective.
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@16
I've always wanted to go on a crazed weekend spending spree, max out everything and then call them on Monday and let them know I lost my wallet and none of those charges are mine. You aren't liable for fraud after all.
I figure you only get to do this once. So you'll never want to lose your wallet, they might not be so kind about it the second time.
I've always wanted to go on a crazed weekend spending spree, max out everything and then call them on Monday and let them know I lost my wallet and none of those charges are mine. You aren't liable for fraud after all.
I figure you only get to do this once. So you'll never want to lose your wallet, they might not be so kind about it the second time.
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@12: true, and maybe slightly raises the crap meter for the people that have the crappy job of processing this stuff. But the fact remains that it costs financial institutions money. Not a lot, but real dollars nonetheless. It also keeps postal workers employed if you're into supporting that kind of union thing.
The only downside I can see at all is less junk mail for my worm-bin.
The only downside I can see at all is less junk mail for my worm-bin.
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The joke will be on the credit unions when they millions of customers barely able to keep a hundred bucks in their accounts. Then they'll start with the fees.
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"but if you could organize a couple million people to do this simultaneously it would be a pretty cool thing."
Are you kidding, there's plenty of Americans who live beyond their means and don't pay their bills already. I believe they've worked the deadbeats into their cost structure. It's why I have 4 free flights again this year morons.
Are you kidding, there's plenty of Americans who live beyond their means and don't pay their bills already. I believe they've worked the deadbeats into their cost structure. It's why I have 4 free flights again this year morons.
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"I've always wanted to go on a crazed weekend spending spree, max out everything and then call them on Monday and let them know I lost my wallet and none of those charges are mine. You aren't liable for fraud after all."
Until the surveillance video comes it and you get a 6 month sentence and $10,000 fine for fraud.
Man, you people are dumb. But if u lived within your means my bank wouldn't be giving me free flights every year.
Until the surveillance video comes it and you get a 6 month sentence and $10,000 fine for fraud.
Man, you people are dumb. But if u lived within your means my bank wouldn't be giving me free flights every year.
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SaccharinMoobs @ 20-22: purports to be gleeful but is really just a sad shill pathetic mileage hoarder going nowhere interesting. :(
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@23 Did you get that name because of your reaction to your credit card bill every month?
20 yrs with one bank, never paid credit card interest, perfect credit score, just closed on a no cost 3.9%, 30 year fixed, bought house in 2003 and have 60% equity, student loans paid off with one bonus 5 years after graduating.
In a word, the banks love me.
20 yrs with one bank, never paid credit card interest, perfect credit score, just closed on a no cost 3.9%, 30 year fixed, bought house in 2003 and have 60% equity, student loans paid off with one bonus 5 years after graduating.
In a word, the banks love me.
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I send mine back filled with the junk they sent with it. Why should I have to throw away their garbage?
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@24: aaand... somehow all that makes you less of a tool (and fool ass sucka slog troll) again, how?
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Tool? I'm not the one camping in the cold rain, shitting in a bucket, wondering how to pay my bills. It's like Nicklesville for white college kids.
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I started calling the phone numbers and asked to be removed from the list. Between that and Catalog Choice, my junk mail delivery was greatly reduced. At least it was before the election mail started coming in....
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