[pct-l] Orange Dot

Sun Nov 4 19:54:46 CST 2007

  Orange Dot = Return To Sender

  Mass mailings to Resident / Occupant / Boxholder / Neighbor / Etc. / destroys woodland habitat to provide paper, generates chemical pollution with the pulping and inking processes, and promotes ill considered consumption. These actions compromise the quality of the world we live in and endanger the health of future generations. 

  If you are concerned about these issues – or simply tired of being forced to receive junk mail and being forced to subsidize it through first class mail rate increases – here is a no risk action you can take which will:

  1) Increase the Post Office junk mail costs in every respect in ways they cannot budget for or control because they will have to handle the junk several times, transport it, and pay to dispose of it.  

  2) Make the Post Office aware that us citizen / customers are more important than the bulk mailers.  

  Simply place an Orange Dot sticky over your mailing address or use a black felt tip marker or anything that will cover over your mailing address, and place the piece of junk mail in a convenient, stand alone US Post Office mail collection box.

  To promote this idea, discuss it with someone who you know would be interested. You may also wish to place an Orange Dot on your vehicle or clothing to help develop a sense of how many of us are out there. 

  The Post Office is a cranky, unresponsive, Orwellian, monopoly bureaucracy and they will need time to figure out that the people who actually pay for the system should be served first. 

  Be Patient. Have Fun!

  Here are a couple of links which will help you better understand how the Post Office does business.   

  There is no way the Post Office will allow you to be removed from (the) list!
  http://www.ecofuture.org/jmusps.html 

  The Postal Service insists that first-class users are not being overcharged to subsidize Frederick's of Hollywood and other advertisers. But according to one U.S.P.S. study, first-class mail provides 68 percent more revenue than its attributable cost, while second-class mail provides 2 percent less than its cost.[55] In the early 1970s, six internal Postal Service audits concluded that first-class users were being over-charged to subsidize other classes.[56] The chief administrative judge of the Postal Rate Commission concluded, "The Postal Service has become a tax-collecting agency collecting money from first-class mailers to distribute to other favored classes."[57]
 http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa047.html 

  The United States Postal Service was created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin on July 26, 1775 by decree of the Second Continental Congress. Based on a clause in the United States Constitution empowering Congress "To establish post offices and post roads," it became the Post Office Department in 1792. It was part of the Presidential cabinet and the postmaster general was the last person in the United States presidential line of succession. In 1971, the department was reorganized as a quasi-independent agency of the federal government and acquired its present name. The postmaster general is no longer in the presidential line of succession.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service 

  Chance

Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net> wrote: In the past, I often taken all the postage paid cards that fall our of 
my magazines and just drop them in the mail. Makes me feel good  but has 
an immaterial effect on the publisher. As to lots of people doing this, 
don't count on it.

In college some of us would take the postage paid reply envelopes and 
stuff all the junk mail into it and mail them back. did a lot of them. 
no noticeable impact on the publisher although the local postman thought 
this was good for PO business.

I've taken credit card offers, written a big NO on them and sent them 
back. No noticeable effect.

I still mail back all those little ad inserts in my bills back to the 
company with my payment. No noticeable effect although the company has 
to pay for the sorting and disposing of their junk.

Any other ideas?

Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>

cvano at tmail.com wrote:
> We all get them and we are probably all irritated by them.  Those damn 
> subscription cards in magazines.  They fall on the floor, they litter 
> the streets, trails, and water, they fill the landfills, they flop the 
> pages making you lose your place, they don't burn well for starting 
> fires, they're too stiff to wipe with, and they're all postage paid.  
> They come in every mag, even Backpacker and Mother Earth News, two 
> supposed environmentally friendly publications.  I unsubbed from both 
> over 20 years ago beacuse of these damn little cards.  My loss maybe as 
> they are both still in full production but I felt better and reduced my 
> carbon footprint just that tiny bit.
>
> I just picked up the latest issue of Backpacker at the store because I 
> wanted to see some of the ads and read some of the articles.  Three 
> cards immediatly fell out and five more were inside attached, FOR MY 
> CONVENIENCE, should I not wish to go online, call the toll free number, 
> or write a note on a scrap of used grocery bag to subscribe.  They will 
> cash the check from any of these methods, believe me.
>
> So, I wrote notes on all of the cards.  Notes such as 'You killed a tree 
> for this!?!?' or 'Litter' or 'Carbon Waste' etc. and sent them back, 
> business reply mail.  Oh they can afford it.  Have you checked to see 
> what a 3" ad in one of these mags costs?  Now count the ads and add in 
> the purchace price.  Somebody is making a killing!
>
> Did any of this do any good?  I seriously doubt it but if your still 
> with me, why not do the same?  This one email will, in just a few 
> minutes, land in hundreds of inboxes with this idea.  If a publisher 
> gets a couple of hundred of these cards back in a month with messages of 
> WASTE written on them, maybe they'll think about alternative means of 
> advertisement and I won't have to put up with these damn little cards 
> anymore.
>
> Just an idea...
> Beyond this point
> There be dragons...
>
> Chris ~ S/V Drifter
> Anacortes, WA. ~~~_/) ~~~
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