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Any junk mail I receive immediately gets put into the outgoing mail slot, so that USPS can waste time reprocessing all the dogshit they don't protect me from and provide me with no means of protecting myself from.
Some come with return postage envelopes so I just send everything back in their envelope. Make them pay twice for it.
Based. If I'm sending out hand written junk mail, this would help me get at least one more post office staff to potentially read it.
I've seen some junk mail that pretends to be handwritten or hand-signed but on closer inspection is just printed.
I received one that initially appeared to be handwritten but upon careful inspection you could tell it was fake. It was a offer to buy the house site unseen (but didn't specify the amount). Likely some kind of a scam anyway. Tossed into the trash it was
I get handwritten religious solicitations like that about once a year. I opened one once out of curiosity.
That does sound pretty cool, even though I'm not into religion much
Not quite handwritten but I once received a letter from a stationary company that included a pretty nice pen with my company name and logo printed on it. Not gonna lie they almost got me, only reason I didn't end up ordering something is I just forgot.
I get handwritten get-out-the-vote stuff pretty regularly (living in a swing state fucking sucks for junkmail and phone bothers), which is a massive waste of everyone’s time since I always vote, but other than that all hand written stuff is printed. It would not sway me even slightly if some schmuck was apparently out there hand-writing their spam. Automatic writing instruments exist, and people/companies who advertise tend to behave in shady ways. So I wouldn’t believe it was genuinely hand written.
The one solicitation I got last year that I actively liked was from mint mobile. They really don’t bother their existing customers for upsells at all, (outside of the app you only open to renew or modify your service) in my experience, probably because it’s super-cheap pre-pay and burning goodwill for a low conversion rate isn’t worth it. So what I got was an unbranded festive headshot of Ryan Reynolds, who owns it I think, with some Christmas message on the back, along with a festive mocktail recipe on another card stock sheet. Didn’t say anything about the service or company other than the logo on the back of each card sheet, and return address. It’s still junk mail meant to make me think about a company, but it’s so low-pressure that now I have a headshot of Ryan Reynolds to add to my holiday card display. And it stays up after the holidays because it’s silly. So that’s fun.
got a religious one once and fwiw it did feel different. still threw it out through.
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