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Economic Activism and Progressive Living

NobodyInParticular

(102 posts) Fri Jan 27, 2012, 11:16 PM Jan 2012

A way to save the Postal Service [View all]

A friend came up with a unique solution to prevent the impending demise of the Postal Service: Simply return all of those business reply envelops with the comment of "Thanks, but no thanks" or something similar. The recipient of the business reply mail(all too often banks making credit card offers) pays for the postage, and--the Postal Service gets revenue. I told him I would have to think about all that...

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A way to save the Postal Service [View all] NobodyInParticular Jan 2012 OP

I've been doing that for about 5 years because the junk mail annoyed me so much. virgogal Jan 2012 #1

What do you thing would happen NobodyInParticular Jan 2012 #3

I would hope that it would at least keep it going. I can't virgogal Jan 2012 #8

K&R JDPriestly Jan 2012 #2

My son's a postal carrier gopiscrap Jan 2012 #4

I once heard about this guy who NobodyInParticular Jan 2012 #6

it would certainly help with revenue blondie58 Jan 2012 #5

k+r limpyhobbler Jan 2012 #7

The biggest help would be to not require pension funding for TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #9