1) 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.
2) 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 postage, ‘if’ and `when` they receive them back.
It costs them nothing at all, though, if you throw them away !
So…… why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little postage-paid return envelopes.
The paid postage would cost them at least 60p before the last increase, and it is according to the weight, so they could get charged an excess as well. Sweeeeet !
The banks and credit card companies are already getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail this way, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. 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, which is why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
Tips for handling Telemarketing calls.
1) These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting..
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.
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 dialled the call, and it kicks your number out of their system.
Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
Tips from Snopes.com. (I already do this at all times)
Delete all previous names from your incoming emails before forwarding !
Then send your email to your entire address list BCC.This means that everyone after you doesn’t get all your friends’ email addresses.
