Chemical Erik May 11th, 2007

If you're more interested in protecting the environment than influencing politics, I recommend the Rocky Mountain Elks Foundation

If you like dead plants – try gasoline!
(sorry, I work in the oil industry)

Not to be confused, I love all my hippy friends out here in California. No matter how wrong they may be about how to take care of the environment.

greg from canada May 11th, 2007

I just send junk back to these companies in their pre paid envelopes. I know MBNA, Master Card, and American Express have all enjoyed my instructions from various pieces of furniture from Ikea and my far side page a day calendar pages. Not to mention anything else I can find to fatten up the envelopes. The environment is one thing, but we must keep the US and Canadian postal service workers employed. Email has hit them hard, lets do our part and come together and a community and use those often thrown away prepaid envelopes, fill them with our junk, and send them back to these companies to put dinner on the table for a postal employee.

Mike May 11th, 2007

You guys are great, i'm gonna have to be more caring toward the postal employees and keep them busy. Great idea.

señor jefe May 15th, 2007

I am sooo ashamed! After reading your sensitive, poignant and thoughtful comments Matt, I realize the selfish manner in which I have been living my life.

For years, I have simply ripped up or shredded all those pesky junk mail credit card offers, political advertisements, and ministerial financial requests… all with a curse under my breath (christian cursing, of course), and frustration in my heart. I have been missing out on the joy you speak of here.

Thank you, thank you thank you. It is with great anticipation that I consider my next trip to the Post Office.

(I'm sure I'll spend the rest of the day thinking up stupid stuff to return in those envelopes…)

George McFly February 8th, 2008

Poop.

Yep.

Poop.

Zippy February 8th, 2008

Uh, George? Care to elaborate or that it?

cathleen April 2nd, 2008

Great idea sending those prepaid envelopes back to the companies. More mail certainly will help the post workers.
May I suggest, instead of stuffing the envelopes with junk, stuff them with the Gospel. Think of all the people we can reach this way with little effort and no cost. Think about those people sitting at their desks doing the drudgery of opening all those envelopes and then they open one with the Good News. And the best part could be – if you tell all your friends, your family, your church family to do the same, perhaps they will get tired of getting our mail back and stop sending it out.

Chemical Erik April 2nd, 2008

I can't get a bible in one of those little envelopes. Perhaps you know of an ulta mega super-dooper compact edition?
Of course, given how most people react to junk mail, perhaps we ought to be sending them atheist liturature. Then they'd be so irritated with atheists, they'd go to a church simply out of spite!:)

greg from canada April 2nd, 2008

You might be able to get one of those mini new testaments in the envelope…

claire April 2nd, 2008

For several years I've sent back the credit card offers with a polite note scrawled onto the form: "no thank you, please do not send any more offers". I rarely get them any more. I think it would be helpful to you if you included your information with all the other stuff, so they can take you off of their lists.

greg from canada April 2nd, 2008

Practical, but they dont get the joy of seeing by discarded dilbert calendar pages or my ikea instructions

claire April 2nd, 2008

oh, by all means include those too! …. just make sure they know, also, whose name to delete from their lists