Junk Mail - send it back from whence it came.
These two posts are linked.
This describes the problem.
And this one you are reading now, describes the solution.
(the more modern labels - that include "chief executive officer" in the address)
PRIORITY MAIL -
Official Winners Notice -
Express Tracked Delivery -
RUSH...
Stuck all over the front.
With an almost totally realistic image of a "delivery receipt" printed onto the back.
Saying:
Confirmed Winner in $1,430,550 Draw.
Prize up to $25,000
And I thought:
"These sleazy "almost won" game playing companies and their collusion with the management of Australia Post to stuff your mail box with “gambling addiction” garbage...."
Fuck them.
How this particular pack or ratbags work is that they send you a catalogue of essentially junk merchandise.
They tell you up front that YOU have the WINNING number - three times on the front of the page - and to claim your prize of TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, you have to buy something from their catalogue and send it in with a money order.
But the magic little conjob from these lying arseholes, is that you do not actually win, because your EVER SO EASY - WIN BIG TIME, will only be a win IF the magic little number hidden away on a page, is the right number to get the winnings.
This scam runs like "You have won the million dollars" in large print, but only if 3 horses, with names starting with H, win the Melbourne Cup, three years in a row - in the fine print.
So this bullshit junk mail - courtesy of Australia Post - really needs to be shoved up someones arse with a crow bar.
I did not want it. I did not ask for it. While I am dead against religion and religious people, there are some GOOD and USEFUL things in amongst the bullshit they come out with.
In the Koran - someone wrote - "Don't play games of chance".
And yet here we go with G.I. Joe - Ahmed Fahour, the CEO of Australia Post - muslim, is making money off gambling and other peoples misery.... between his own trips to the race track....
http://www.afr.com/p/national/fahour_family_spirit_for_islamic_PYZj4qCrXN9n3AOwrhLpUI
Australia Post chief Ahmed Fahour is helping develop an Islamic museum in Melbourne which he hopes will foster a harmonious society and a positive image of Islam.
"Oh the fucking hypocrisy of the religious"..... LOL
Just like the Mormons - preaching christian family values and running Las Vegas...
And yet here are are the people in this company and in Australia Post - sending out the most aggressive gambling bait ever invented... it's incredibly manipulative...
"Will I win?, Will I win?, Will I win?" - followed up with:
Scratch, scratch, scratch,
Send, send send,
Buy, buy buy
"Did I win? Nooooo buy I was sooooo close - try again next time!"
"Oh god... "
This is just so lacking in ethics.
It's wrong to groom children for sexual abuse, but look at the lengths that these people in these companies go to, to groom, manipulate and exploit people. And look at all the spineless individuals that stick their hand up for cash, to promote this garbage - every step of the way. The advertisers, the printers, the management and staff of Australia Post, the posties... and the users who refuse to send this garbage back to where it came from.
Stand up for yourself and say "NO".
The Solution.
For Single Items:
A simple label - A piece of paper or an A4 print out with 8 labels per page - and a little bit of sticky tape or paper glue.
Right click and view the image, save as, and you will have an image that fits neatly on an A4 page - that you can use...
Then cut the page up into individual labels and stick them on all the junk mail, one at a time, with a glue stick / paper glue.
Works best on the crap in the envelopes.
Print off 50 sheets of them - that is 400 Return to Sender labels - a handy supply.
And using tape or cheap shit paper glue, stick one of them on each piece of junk mail you get, and then send them back to the sender.
It's a nice way to do it - one at a time.... sitting there watching some video - and gluing on 10 labels a night....
IN fact, send him all of the crap that was sent to you without your requesting it, without your express or implied consent.
Or for the BULK junk mail returns:
You know all the pamphlets, and sales brochures and junk news papers etc.,
This size mailing bag is OK.
GLAD SNAP LOCK Medium Storage size (15 bags 22cm x 25cm)
This size is better...
GLAD SNAP LOCK Large Storage size
(10 bags 26cm x 38cm)
A pile of these.... left click and "view image" and then save it and print on A4.
Two to a page.....
One to a bag.
With the 26cm x 38cm - I think they would be about 40c a piece - and capable of holding about 2 or 3Kg of junk mail.
I think that is pretty good value actually - 40c to contain what you post back to the recipient and in terms of attrition, each pack that arrives back with Ahmed, well that COSTS them to deal with and dispose of their own crap that they were content to dump in your own letter box - without your consent.
It's the cost reversal of like they have an idiot tracking system that allows wholesale theft - so say $200 of your gear gets stolen in their hands, and they then cause you to engage with them and they cost you the $200 and another 20 hours of your time, over the next 3 months....
Well this totally reverses the issue.
They dump shit in your letter box, and by posting it back to them for a mere 40c, they have to carry it back from all parts of the country, to their head office, and then they have to "deal with it" and then dispose of it / recycle it....
In their time, and at their cost.
So it puts the total onus and responsibility back onto them, for the entire issue.
Instead of you, your councils recycling program (= rates / rent), the recycling centres costs, and the costs of disposal being foisted on the community and when the junk mail gets dumped the clean up costs of the pollution.... it's all now back in their hands - where it belongs.
Plus you get to alter and reset the fees that the management of Australia Post set and charge. Instead of the Australia Post rip off fees of say sending a 5Kg book from the UK for $7 and $120 to send it back, you get to send their crap back to them for the price of a 40c zip lock back with free postage, and all you can stuff in the bag.
Return to Sender = Free Post.
So you can send 2 or 3 kilos of shit that does not belong to you, back to the people who organised to have it sent to you, from anywhere in the country, at their cost, to them, for a mere 40c per package.
That - is GOOD value.
Hell - I see another opportunity for community service here....
Start collecting ALL the junk mail that comes into the whole street... and send it all back..
A few blocks in each direction.....
This is a photo of the Pacific Ocean guyer - where enormous amounts of rubbish accumulates in a slowly swirly eddy - thousands of kilometers across.
For $4 worth of bags, or 10 bags, you could send like 20 or 30 Kg back to the CEO and the idiot bored of directors....
Add in a friendly note, "Hey guys, thanks for the shit - but we don't want it, and it doesn't belong to us, so you can have it all back. Cheers etc."
These 22 x 25cm bags were each carrying about a kilo or so of junk mail - and I just sent off 4 of them.....
That is pretty good actually - 4Kg posted for $1.20 of plastic bags....
And pile in all the junk mail......
Unflattened - that bag is about 50 - 60mm thick.
They fit nicely through the 40mm high slot at the post office.
Then post them....
As soon as I get a supply of the BIGGER bags, I'll be using them.
Or if you can get CHEAP SHIT boxes you can get for nothing or nearly so, you can stick a label on the box, fill them, up with junk mail and dump them into the friendly convenient kerbside Australia Post recycling centres.
Just get a supply of boxes that fit but. (MU Tezza)
They - the people running Australia Post do not actually have a right to send you this shit.
You did not ask for the junk mail. You did not consent to it. And you certainly have no viable way to stop them from sending it to you.
Just Google - "Australia Post" (and) "junk mail".
They entered into a contract to provide these services for a fee, to those who chose to enter into a contract with them, to do it.
A fairly high percentage of people don't want the junk mail.
The managers of Australia Post have decided that in the majority of cases, that turning your letter box into a waste paper bin - you get lumbered with the cost of emptying and disposing of the crap they send you, is OK for the huge amount of pointless deliveries they make, which results in a smaller amount of sales from the people they earn money delivering this crap for.
You have a right to return it.
If 2 or 3 million people sent back every piece of junk mail that came their way, every day - that would put a stop to this monopolistic waste of everyone's time, the disposal issues that cost time and money - and all the deforestation, pollution - in it's production, the waste and more pollution being created by it's legal and dumping.
Basically - we the people of this world, can shut this shit down overnight.
I mean I would not be totally opposed to advertising in the mail box, IF I had a choice of who's material I could take a subscription out on.....
But for me personally - 90% of what comes into my own mail box - I don't want, I don't need, and I won't use - so why are they sending it to me, AND everyone else?
You people managing Australia Post - either improve the system by offering subscriptions, or quit pissing away huge amounts of natural resources and creating huge amounts of landfill and waste - that people don't want either.
The environmental costs of creating and disposing of junk mail are astronomical.
So now I am buying the BIG Glad Zip Lock Bags and filling one or two up a week and sending them back.
The worlds population, personally, community and globally - and environmentally - none of use should have to bear the costs and the consequences of this incredibly wasteful issue called junk mail.
So start up your own weekly baggings or monthly boxings, and send it back to the manager of the postal system in your country.
Send it all back.
Send it back from whence it came.
Shift the costs of recycling, from yourself and the community and the environment, back onto those who create it.
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