thepres00
04-21-2003, 07:46 AM
If your tired of junk mail try this
> Subject: FW: Great Ideas!
>
>
> Some good tips here -- I like the junk mail one -- I think I'm going to
> start doing that.
>
>
> (1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
> Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
> hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
> time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when you
> eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone,
> you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
> efficiently completed its task.
> These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
>
> (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
> end?
> This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and
> records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is
> used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call
> back and get someone at home. What you can do after answering, if you
> notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your #
button
> on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the
> machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.
> Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
>
> (3) Another Good Idea:
> When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
> "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk
> mail away. When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for
> everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do
not
> throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid
return
> envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage
> "IF" and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw
> them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it
> is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your
> other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return
> envelopes. One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. Send an ad for your
> local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to
Citibank.
> If you didn't get anything
> else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
> If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on
> anything you send them.
> You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
> guessing!
> Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their
> own junk back in the mail.
> Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of
> all they're paying for it...Twice!
> Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail
> is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to
> increase postage costs again. You get the idea ! If enough people follow
> these tips, it will work----
> I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
> THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR
> FRIENDS.
> Subject: FW: Great Ideas!
>
>
> Some good tips here -- I like the junk mail one -- I think I'm going to
> start doing that.
>
>
> (1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
> Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
> hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
> time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when you
> eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone,
> you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has
> efficiently completed its task.
> These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
>
> (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
> end?
> This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and
> records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is
> used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call
> back and get someone at home. What you can do after answering, if you
> notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your #
button
> on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the
> machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.
> Since doing this, my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
>
> (3) Another Good Idea:
> When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
> "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk
> mail away. When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for
> everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do
not
> throw away the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid
return
> envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage
> "IF" and when they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw
> them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it
> is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your
> other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return
> envelopes. One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. Send an ad for your
> local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to
Citibank.
> If you didn't get anything
> else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
> If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on
> anything you send them.
> You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
> guessing!
> Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will begin getting their
> own junk back in the mail.
> Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of
> all they're paying for it...Twice!
> Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail
> is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to
> increase postage costs again. You get the idea ! If enough people follow
> these tips, it will work----
> I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
> THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR
> FRIENDS.