[Newspoetry] Re: "A Good Idea" - from Newspoetry digest, Vol 1 #702

[John Wason]

>Message: 8
>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:39:07 -0800
>From: Sam Markewich 2 <s7markew at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: s7markew at earthlink.net
>To: news poetry <newspoetry at lists.groogroo.com>,
>	dusan chae <dchae at infinex.com>
>Subject: [Newspoetry] [Fwd: Fwd: .A Good Idea]
>
>> GOOD IDEA:
>>
>> 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.  Or a pizza coupon to Citibank.
>>
>> If you didn't get anything else that day, then just
>> send them their application back!  Just make sure your
>> name isn't on anything you send them.  Heck, you can
>> send it back empty if you want to just to  keep 'em
>> guessing!
>>
>> Let's turn this into a chain letter!  Eventually, the
>> banks and credit card companies will begin getting all
>> their crap back in the mail.
>>
>> Let's let them know what it's like to get junk mail,
>> and best of  all... 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!
>>
>> Send this to a friend or two or three...or fifty.

I'm not as intelligent as some of the people who sit around and come up with
brilliant ideas like this one.  But it seems to me that if everyone did
this, there would simply be even fewer postage-paid "Business Reply"
envelopes than there are already.  Some people actually want to use them to
apply for credit cards, etc.  I'm old enough to remember when all your bills
could be paid in postage-paid Business Reply envelopes.  Now we have to pay
for our own postage - unless, of course, we're techno-savvy enough to pay
"online".  I wouldn't be surprised if the cause of the change was some
Einstein who came up with a "good idea" very similar to this one.  Of
course, it may have just been the profit motive.....  :)

John