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>>>>>>A good way to deal with unsolicited mail adverts is to send the whole thing, including the (uncompleted) application/order form, but removing any reference to your name & address, back to them in their pre-paid envelopes. That way they incur the mail cost and it's left with them to get rid of the unwnated junk mail. If everyone did it we might nip this evil practice in the bud. Your mom sounds like she might get a buzz out of that. :-)
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>>>>>>And I'm cc'ing this cos I think everyone should hear the idea :-)
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>>>>>Good Idea.
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>>>>>I beleive that unsolicited E-Mail is considered Spam. Would unsolicited smail-mail also be considered Spam? We sould be able to put spam-block on snail-mail too.
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>>>>Well we can in the UK, via a system called something like "Mail Preference Service". We've also got something very similar for the phone. I very rarely get some call-centre snot-nose ringing me up at supper-time, trying to sell me gas, or offering me a "free" holiday.
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>>>As for the phone, we have the "No Call List". If the phone-spammer calls me, I can report them to the authorities. But they must call me at least three time before anything can be done to them (as I believe).
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>>I once had this call cntre guy bugging me at supper time. I said to him like "How would you like it if I called you every night just as you were sitting down to your meal". He then told me about the call-spammer service, which I promptly contacted, and since then I rarely get a call, and then only from foriegn callers who arte presumably not in the code of practice in th UK.
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>>>For the regular mail. Every Wednesday, my mailbox is stuffed full of store advertisements from stores not even in my area. But for some strange reason, the stores I do shop at do not send me theirs. (?)
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>>Ideal to send back to them. Or send them ALL back to just one of them. You've got to use their freepost envelope though. Throw some fish and vegetable scraps in with it, for good measure - nice and smelly by the time it arrives, or some Play-Do (the marzipan smell will get their sphincters twitching when they come to open it! :-)
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>I like it. Perhaps I will send the ones back after the cat gets done with in it litter box. No since in not letting some of it go to good use first.

At least you know where to send it back. I live in a very highly Chinese populated area, and I receive a lot of spam snail mail printed only in Chinese which, of course, is Greek to me.

On the bright side though, there are lots of Chinese bakeries, so the price for pork buns, egg tarts and sesame lotus balls is very low.