[CrackMonkey] [DavidKlaus@webtv.net: Anti-Paper Spam Tactics]

[Nick Moffitt]

	Goddamn WebTV freaks.

----- from "David K. M. Klaus" <DavidKlaus at webtv.net> -----


Dear Crackmonkey,

>For organizations that pester you to the
>point of extreme GAR, simply affix the
>reply card to an ordinary brick or
>cinderblock and dump it in your
>neighborhood mailbox.  Thanks to the
>miracle of BUSINESS REPLY MAIL, it
>will go to its destination on THEIR DIME!
>Beaujolais to that!

Not so, mon frere.  After a spate of just that during the Yippie days of
the late '60s/early '70s, the corporationists got their lackeys in
Congress to change the Business Reply Mail provisions in the postal
regulations so this kind of pranking wouldn't cost them any more money.
Nowadays if you stick a BRM card on a brick, the USPS simply throws the
card and brick in the trash, and doesn't charge the BRM permit holder.

In order for this to work, you will, at the minimum, have to package the
brick in a cardboard box and pad it enough with newspaper that it isn't
*obviously* a brick, which is usually more trouble than it's worth
unless they have *really* pissed you off.  Even so, if the offending
company's mailroom peons are savvy enough, they can still apply for and
receive a refund for the postage.

Personally, I just put in a Libertarian Party tract (which is usually
pretty annoying in and of itself) and send it back to them, unless the
sender is a fundamentalist Christian statist.  Them I send a tract which
uses Bible verses to justify legalizing marijuana.

Cheers,

Dave Klaus


----- End forwarded message -----

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