>>> Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers
>>>
>>>
>>> Three Little Words That Work !!
>>>
>>> (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. Gosh, what a shame not to have
>>>your
>>> name in their system any longer !!!
>>>
>>>>>> (3) Junk Mail Help:
>>>
>>> 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 37 cents 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 cas e , 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! It still costs them 37 cents.
>>>
>>> The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of
>&g t; > their
>>> own junk back in the mail, 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, 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.
>>>
>>>

 

Awesome idea!

 

I get Such a Deluge of Junkmail it is unreal! It takes 1 to 2 hours to go through all the junk just to make sure I am not throwing Important Papers away on bill pay Saturday. I will Be Sending Back Lots of Empty Envelopes & Offers next time! Bill Paying Just became a Little more Fun!

KC

 

I had a girlfriend back in the 80's who worked for the local Mutual of Omaha office. When there were pre-paid inserts in the local sunday paper, they would always get a bunch of empty envelopes or filled with junk returned to them.

This kind of thing does happen, and has been happening for a long time.

 

I had ten Junkmails Take a Trip back to Sender this weekend. Four Were Identical Capital One Credit Card Offers. Felt Pretty Good! I don't Send Back Non Profit Charity Ones. Just Pesky Credit Card & Magazine Offers.

KC

 

I have been doing this for years.
I get some stuff from companies that I have told never to send me mail again.
I just keep sending it back.
REMEMBER...
THE USPS NEEDS MORE BUSINESS.
HELP THEM OUT BY SENDING BACK JUNK MAIL.

 

I'm so doing this!