You know your getting old when this come in the mail.

Motorized wheelchairs, dentures, optical clinics,, in-home assistance...They have our number.
 

I just turned 77 last month and now am getting those funeral offers. I figure after I die they can do whatever they want with my body, I won't know a thing about it.
 
DO NOT throw away mail like this. You're wasting it.
I get funeral plans & long-term health insurance policies all the time. The funeral stuff amuses me but the health stuff irritates me. It mentions all the financial disasters that will happen to my family if I get a lengthy illness. Here's what I do:
They usually include a postage-paid envelope. I stuff the envelope with other junk mail I save. That adds weight to the mailing - which costs them more when they pay the postage. I also include a letter: (feel free to use it)
"Hi, Folks:
Thank you so much for sending me the information about buying long-term care insurance. It was very thoughtful of you to remind me that I could suddenly become permanently bedridden at any time. Your genuine concern for my health & finances has touched me deeply. In this fast-paced, indifferent world, it is refreshing to see people who really care about others.
To show my sincere appreciation, I have enclosed some valuable discount coupons for your benefit. I save these coupons for kind, thoughtful, caring, wonderful people like you. Since I believe that kindness should always be rewarded, I will continue to bestow such gifts upon you each time you are thoughtful enough to mail me more information.
I look forward to hearing from you in the future.
PS: It was very thoughtful & generous of you to provide me with a postage-paid envelope & pay the substantial return postage – especially when the envelope was weighed down with that thick stack of valuable coupons I was thoughtful enough to enclose."

I never got anything else from them....
 
win231 said:
DO NOT throw away mail like this. You're wasting it.
I get funeral plans & long-term health insurance policies all the time. The funeral stuff amuses me but the health stuff irritates me. It mentions all the financial disasters that will happen to my family if I get a lengthy illness. Here's what I do:
They usually include a postage-paid envelope. I stuff the envelope with other junk mail I save. That adds weight to the mailing - which costs them more when they pay the postage. I also include a letter: (feel free to use it)
"Hi, Folks:
Thank you so much for sending me the information about buying long-term care insurance. It was very thoughtful of you to remind me that I could suddenly become permanently bedridden at any time. Your genuine concern for my health & finances has touched me deeply. In this fast-paced, indifferent world, it is refreshing to see people who really care about others.
To show my sincere appreciation, I have enclosed some valuable discount coupons for your benefit. I save these coupons for kind, thoughtful, caring, wonderful people like you. Since I believe that kindness should always be rewarded, I will continue to bestow such gifts upon you each time you are thoughtful enough to mail me more information.
I look forward to hearing from you in the future.
PS: It was very thoughtful & generous of you to provide me with a postage-paid envelope & pay the substantial return postage – especially when the envelope was weighed down with that thick stack of valuable coupons I was thoughtful enough to enclose."

I never got anything else from them....
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Good idea.
 
waste of trees ---- u name it I get it here ' xmas is worse time then the pleading of child care' animals - people starving in Somalia 'just making us feel like crap -coz we have food for xmas Arrrgh
 
Get offers all the time and scam phone calls. I usually do not answer if I don't recognize the # but if I am dealing with a new doc's # I am afraid to miss a call nd they get me. I hang up and watch for the # from then on.
 
win231 said:
DO NOT throw away mail like this. You're wasting it.
I get funeral plans & long-term health insurance policies all the time. The funeral stuff amuses me but the health stuff irritates me. It mentions all the financial disasters that will happen to my family if I get a lengthy illness. Here's what I do:
They usually include a postage-paid envelope. I stuff the envelope with other junk mail I save. That adds weight to the mailing - which costs them more when they pay the postage. I also include a letter: (feel free to use it)
"Hi, Folks:
Thank you so much for sending me the information about buying long-term care insurance. It was very thoughtful of you to remind me that I could suddenly become permanently bedridden at any time. Your genuine concern for my health & finances has touched me deeply. In this fast-paced, indifferent world, it is refreshing to see people who really care about others.
To show my sincere appreciation, I have enclosed some valuable discount coupons for your benefit. I save these coupons for kind, thoughtful, caring, wonderful people like you. Since I believe that kindness should always be rewarded, I will continue to bestow such gifts upon you each time you are thoughtful enough to mail me more information.
I look forward to hearing from you in the future.
PS: It was very thoughtful & generous of you to provide me with a postage-paid envelope & pay the substantial return postage – especially when the envelope was weighed down with that thick stack of valuable coupons I was thoughtful enough to enclose."

I never got anything else from them....
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I did that a few times in the past.

But they kept sending the junk, so I quit.

Maybe if we started a movement.

Like in "Alice's Restaurant"

Can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day stuffing all their postage paid junk envelopes with more junk mail and sending them back?
 
Many of these companies are onto the strategy of sending back junk mail and have discontinued the postage paid envelopes. In any event, I can't be bothered with anything more than tossing the junk into the recycling bin.

Junk mail helps keep the USPS in business and pays postal workers' salaries, therefore I don't hate on them.
 

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