Here's a simple, non-harmful way to protect our natural resources. At most it will take 10 minutes of your time, once or twice a week.
You get junk mail, right? Sure, most of us do, and the majority throw it away without a second thought. The rest recycle, but even that isn't enough. We can continue on this way, or we can force businesses to stop sending literally tons of unsolicited mail each day.
Here is how you can help:
Each time you recieve junk mail that includes a 'postage paid' envelope, remove anything containing your name or other personal information, put it back into the envelope provided, and MAIL IT BACK. This will cost businesses 37 cents each time, yet business will not increase. Now, by itself that little 37 cents is not enough to put a dent in any profit margins, but imagine 1,000 people mailing back five envelopes each in a week. That's $1850. How about 10,000 people and 10 envelopes per week? 1,000,000? The amount becomes staggering.
Our goal is to make mass mailings as expensive as possible and force companies to find alternative means of soliciting business.
Unsolicited business wastes money, but we can be smarter than they are and force the solicitors to pay for sending mail back to themselves!