Reuse Junk Mail Envelopes

RE: Reuse Junk Mail Envelopes Post By Scott (Guest Post) (07/25/2007) Using prepaid envelopes for purposes other than the use for which they were intended is against the law. It is fraud, and may be a federal crime. You may throw them in the trash (i hope) use them as toilet paper, but you can not use them as correspondence envelopes with the company who sent them or other wise. RE: Reuse Junk Mail Envelopes Post by mef1957 (254) | (05/14/2007) Profile | Blog! | Contact Consumers pay for those prepaid envelopes in the end through increased costs, so while this type of "revenge" may seem clever, I wouldn't suggest this route. Opt out, and/or reuse the envelopes in some manner. I shred anything with my name on it, and toss the usable envelopes into a basket, using them for my grocery lists, errand lists, notes to family and for to-do lists. RE: Reuse Junk Mail Envelopes Post by tedsmom (456) | (05/05/2007) Contact You and OhioGirl both have marvelous suggestions for recycling! I plan to start practicing your idea and looking into hers online. God bless both of you! RE: Reuse Junk Mail Envelopes Post By Ramsey Fahel (Guest Post) (05/05/2007) Do Not Mail Opt-Out Law would be fair to everyone. The proposed recent "Do not mail" is an Opt-Out law. Only those not desiring advertising mail need opt-out. Anyone desiring advertising mail can do nothing - and continue to receive it. Why deny those wishing to avoid advertising mail the power to do so? I do not consider handling unwanted advertising placed against my will on my personal property to be a civic obligation! The US Supreme Court said in the Rowan case in 1970, "In today's [1970] complex society we are inescapably captive audiences for many purposes, but a sufficient measure of individual autonomy must survive to permit every householder to exercise control over unwanted mail. To make the householder the exclusive and final judge of what will cross his threshold undoubtedly has the effect of impeding the flow of ideas, information, and arguments that, ideally, he should receive and consider. Today's merchandising methods, the plethora of mass mailings subsidized by low postal rates, and the growth of the sale of large mailing lists as an industry in itself have changed the mailman from a carrier of primarily private communications, as he was in a more leisurely day, and have made him an adjunct of the mass mailer who sends unsolicited and often unwanted mail into every home. It places no strain on the doctrine of judicial notice to observe that whether measured by pieces or pounds, Everyman's mail today is made up overwhelmingly of material he did not seek from persons he does not know. And all too often it is matter he finds offensive." Furthermore, the Supreme Court said, "the mailer's right to communicate is circumscribed only by an affirmative act of the addressee giving notice that he wishes no further mailings from that mailer. To hold less would tend to license a form of trespass and would make hardly more sense than to say that a radio or television viewer may not twist the dial to cut off an offensive or boring communication and thus bar its entering his home. Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit; we see no basis for according the printed word or pictures a different or more preferred status because they are sent by mail." We need a nationwide "Do Not Mail" law to create a one-stop, convenient place for homeowners to give senders the aforementioned affirmative notice that we do not want certain kinds of mail sent to our homes. http://www.newdream.org/emails/ta19.html Signed, Ramsey A Fahel RE: Reuse Junk Mail Envelopes Post by okstamper (3) | (05/04/2007) Contact I sometimes take the inside out, because it usually has some sort of a print on it. I then save these to my scraps of printed paper for making my own cards. RE: Reuse Junk Mail Envelopes Post by OhioGirl (3) | (05/04/2007) Contact A less mean-spirited way is to recycle the junk mail. The church near here is part of the Abitibi Paper Retriever recycling program with big yellow and green bins open to the public. Profits from the paper, magazines, newpapers, toilet paper & paper towel rolls, etc. go back to the companies whose parking lot is used. Look them up online. Most websites will tell you how to unsubscribe to advertising mail.