POSTAGE PAID BY ADDRESSEE IF MAILED IN THE UNITED STATES
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A variant of the “Google” ads pastime mentioned above has been a hobby of mine for several years.

You know all those annoying postcards or return envelopes “embedded” within magazines (one particular national mag often has 6 of them included…some loose, some cutouts)?

You’re probably also familiar with these same items included with junk mail.

Well, the vast majority of these items feature free return postage.(Heh, heh).

In your spare time, just collect the postcards, seal the envelopes and return them all to the sender. Don’t include anything, don’t write your address on it or anything.(Nothing says you have to). Just mail them in blank. Destination address is already included. Post office will do the rest. A typcial household, I project, could easily send out 2 dozen of these items a month.

If your having a particularly bad day, you can actually fill the envelopes to bursting with their own blank forms thus incurring a higher postage charge for the addressee. That national “Sweepstakes” company is particularly good for this since the junk it mails must weigh a pound easily.

The beneficiary of these actions is the US Postal “Service” since they collect for each item delivered.

Since I’m on the subject: here’s another variant of the above.

I’m in the habit of answering all emails, particularly those from Nigerian princes and Heads of State and similar communications assuring me of vast riches if only I…….

What I do is “lead them on”. When it gets time for me to send them my bank account number and so on, I readily comply…..except all the numbers and addresses etc I send them are totally fictitious.

It must be terribly frustrating for these jailbirds to finally come to the realization that they’ve been duped and they’ve wasted a lot of time for nothing.