Before 9/11, you could mail anything in a mailbox, now you're limited to 13 ounces. People used to adhere a return envelope to a brick to drive the point home.
--- John Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In UK we are charged extra to post a large letter, > anything above about A5. > If we don't put sufficient postage on a letter we > are charged a ?1 ($2) > administration fee in addition to the extra postage > to receive the mail and > have to collect it from the sorting office. I have > started sending > unsolicited junk mail back to the sender in an > unaddressed A4 envelope with > a note on the junk mail asking to be removed from > their mailing list. I > don't know how successful (or otherwise <g>) it has > been but it gives me > great satisfaction!!!!! > > John Weller > 01380 723235 > 07976 393631 > > > > > Stephen Russell wrote: > > > A few years ago one of them had their actual > snail mail published on > > > slashdot??? > > Dave Barry (humour genius) did something similar > with the office switch > > number of a cold-calling outfit. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
