Fri Jan 27, 2012, 10:16 PM

A way to save the Postal Service

A friend came up with a unique solution to prevent the impending demise of the Postal Service: Simply return all of those business reply envelops with the comment of "Thanks, but no thanks" or something similar. The recipient of the business reply mail(all too often banks making credit card offers) pays for the postage, and--the Postal Service gets revenue. I told him I would have to think about all that...

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9 replies	Author	Time	Post
A way to save the Postal Service (Original post)	NobodyInParticular	Jan 2012	OP
I've been doing that for about 5 years because the junk mail annoyed me so much.	virgogal	Jan 2012	#1
What do you thing would happen	NobodyInParticular	Jan 2012	#3
I would hope that it would at least keep it going. I can't	virgogal	Jan 2012	#8
K&R	JDPriestly	Jan 2012	#2
My son's a postal carrier	gopiscrap	Jan 2012	#4
I once heard about this guy who	NobodyInParticular	Jan 2012	#6
it would certainly help with revenue	blondie58	Jan 2012	#5
k+r	limpyhobbler	Jan 2012	#7
The biggest help would be to not require pension funding for	TheKentuckian	Feb 2012	#9

Response to NobodyInParticular (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 10:24 PM

virgogal (7,420 posts)

1. I've been doing that for about 5 years because the junk mail annoyed me so much.

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Response to virgogal (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 10:31 PM

NobodyInParticular (65 posts)

3. What do you thing would happen

if everybody who worries about the USPS being decimated would follow your example?

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Response to NobodyInParticular (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 09:43 PM

virgogal (7,420 posts)

8. I would hope that it would at least keep it going. I can't

imagine life w/o the USPS.

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Response to NobodyInParticular (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 10:27 PM

JDPriestly (37,760 posts)

2. K&R

This is an easy way to have an impact. When I do it, I take my name and address and identifying codes off the mail I am returning. Those credit card offers are especially annoying because they tempt people to break their personal budgets and because they can encourage fraud.

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Response to NobodyInParticular (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 10:53 PM

gopiscrap (2,512 posts)

4. My son's a postal carrier

been dong this for years along with ordering catalogues from all over then send them back postage return paid by the company!!!

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Response to gopiscrap (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 11:26 PM

NobodyInParticular (65 posts)

6. I once heard about this guy who

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went the extra mile to help the USPS: He went from door to door in his neighborhood and asked neighbors to give him or save business reply envelops. Once he had gotten a batch, he threw away the ones from businesses and organizations that he liked and mailed the rest of them back to the parties that sent them

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Response to NobodyInParticular (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 11:10 PM

blondie58 (2,115 posts)

5. it would certainly help with revenue

The real problem is the 5 Billion+ prepayment of retirees health benefits- something no other federal agency has to do. We are trying to pass HB1851, although there are a couple more Bills that would really destroy the post office.

A retired member of NALC branch 47. Denver Colorado

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Response to NobodyInParticular (Original post)

Sat Jan 28, 2012, 03:33 AM

limpyhobbler (6,665 posts)

7. k+r

Helps the post office and fights junk mail.
2 birds with one stone. I'm gonna do it.

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Response to NobodyInParticular (Original post)

Sun Feb 26, 2012, 01:53 PM

TheKentuckian (17,393 posts)

9. The biggest help would be to not require pension funding for

employees that assumably aren't born yet. 75 years is an absurd window.

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