think green

January 25th, 2003

This tip came to me in an email a while back, but today I got a lot of junk mail and thought I would pass it along.

When you get ads in your phone or utility bill, include them with the payment let the companies throw them away. When you get those pre approved letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and junk like that, most of them come with postage paid return envelopes, right?

Well, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little envelopes!

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send the pizza coupon to Citibank.

If you didn't get anything else that day then just send them their application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them. You can send it back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing!

Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their junk back in the mail. Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail, and the best of it is that they're paying for it! Twice!

Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why they need to increase postage again!

Not only are you having fun getting rid of your junk mail, but most of these big companies have some sort of recycling program, so the paper will probably not go into a landfill.

So go ahead and do the earth a service and recycle!

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