Joe Nicholson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Wayne Chirnside <=-

 RJT> My biggest gripe about junk mail these days is the number of
 RJT> credit card offers I'm getting.  I let them pile up for a while
 RJT> and when the stack got to be about a foot high (under my desk
 RJT> so it wasn't adding to the clutter :-) I decided that the time
 RJT> had come to do something about it.  So I returned *ALL* of it
 RJT> to the companies which sent it to me, written with marker on it
 RJT> "NO!" and "TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST!". 
Figuring that
 RJT> they're paying a dollar and change each time I send off one of
 RJT> those business reply envelopes,

 JN>  In the business reply envelope, include everything (including the 
 JN> original envelope) that came with the solicitation.

That's exactly what I do,  but I make sure that they can't re-use any of
that stuff by writing on it with a marker,  so that sooner or later
somebody might get the message.

 JN> They pay by the ounce, and the more you stuff into that business 
 JN> reply envelope the more they're going to pay.

Yep!

I don't know if it's going to make any difference or not in the long run, 
but at least I get some satisfaction out of it.

I've heard of people taping those to bricks,  and similar stuff,  but I
don't have any handy to use for that purpose.  Nor any stones,  etc.
either.  Maybe if they keep it up I'll go out and find some,  after all
that white stuff goes away.

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