Postage paid return envelopes

[AnotherBueller]

The mail is processed on automated equipment. The number of pieces going to the permit holder is billed accordingly. The equipment recognizes the bar code at the top center of the envelope as being business reply and therefore does not recognize the stamp.

It's like 'the man' & japody says, what they missed is that they also have an annual bookkeeping fee. The per piece fee is based on avg weight of all BRM envelopes, packages get charged by weight.
Retired PM

 

[oosik]

That's why my garbage can is out at the end of my driveway - right by the mail box. I "sort" the mail before returning to the house.

 

[hube2]

A lot of junk mail wants me to reply. If they pay the postage, I will reply.
But sometimes the envelope gets mailed back empty, or with some other junk mail.

My question is, am I helping the USPS stay solvent or am I increasing the burden on them.
Any current or past mail carriers care to respond?

I do this too. I save postage paid return envelopes and stuff them all with all the other junk mail I get unless it has PII on it.

Like someone else said, they have to pay the postage.

Everyone should do this. Has anyone ever gotten junk mail that that was actually good for anything?

 

[Oaktree]

Has anyone ever gotten junk mail that that was actually good for anything?

I tell ya, if you want to get on every junk mail list there is, donate to a charity. They sell their lists to anyone. Wife learned that the hard way.

 

[Massey convert]

I too have stuffed the reply envelopes with garbage and sent them back. Recently I re-mailed an envelope from Hughes Net, unopened, it came back about a week later. I re-mailed it four times, and it came back. My daughter traveled to Madison and mailed it from there about two weeks ago, and right now it is MIA.

 

[hube2]

I tell ya, if you want to get on every junk mail list there is, donate to a charity. They sell their lists to anyone. Wife learned that the hard way.

Tell me about it. My MIL passed a little over a year ago and we had her mail forwarded here. We now get mail for here at our address for every charity under the sun. One of them must have sent it with "return service requested". It's the only way they would get the new address. Post office stopped forwarding with the old address months ago, but now they all have the new one. I try to send the charity junk mail to other people so the charity does not looks money. But in a lot of cases I return the envelope with a "Deceased" written across whatever form they send and it will stop.

 

[Massey convert]

I had POA for my dad who lived down the road, so I had his address changed to mine. He was a lifetime member of the NRA; when he passed, I informed the NRA of his passing. They replied asking for a death certificate, I didn't send them one because I had to pay for each one. He was born in 1910, eventually, and I don't know how, but they changed his birthday to mine, (1956), and I'm still getting the "American Rifleman" every month. I guess they want to maintain as many members as they can.
I do enjoy the magazine, and was a member, but I got tired of the endless junk mail they kept sending.

 

[JethroB]

I tell ya, if you want to get on every junk mail list there is, donate to a charity. They sell their lists to anyone. Wife learned that the hard way.

I learned that too. I donated to our state’s PBS TV/radio system. They shot themselves in the foot, never again. Magazine subscriptions are notorious it seems also. (Gotta have some ‘library’ material )

 

[bigtiller]

Everyone should do this. Has anyone ever gotten junk mail that that was actually good for anything?

The junk mail is getting junkier.

Some of them will send me a credit card that I need to activate before using.
I use the cards in the shop as scrappers, spread glue, shims, etc.

But lately the cards are made out of laminated thick paper which is totally worthless.

 

[flyerdan]

I've noticed that there are no more paid envelopes in the junk I get. I used to send all their trash back as well, but not to the original sender. Get three junk mails, send a to c, b to a, and c to b.
Now everything just has a link. The full page glossy heavy paper ads do serve a purpose as a backsplash for the cat's litter box.