Posted on 12/06/2009 6:04:45 AM PST by blueyon
Thanks to a reader for this idea.
Do you still get mailings from the DNC or AARP that include a “No Postage Required” envelope intended for you to send a check back to them? Instead of giving the DNC or AARP — two entities we abhor because of their recent behavior — any money, why not start costing them money with those mailings?
Since the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee met on May 31st, 2008 to take delegates away from Hillary Clinton that she won in Florida and Michigan, we’ve sent back every contribution envelope we’ve received from the DNC filled with as many flat rocks as we could fit into the envelopes, hoping to cost the DNC a lot in postage.
Well, SSmith has an even better idea: start sending the DNC and AARP your phone books.
You don’t use them anymore, because most likely you just look numbers up online these days. So, here’s what you do:
(1) Get a box
(2) Put your phone book (and maybe some rocks, too) in the box
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No phonebooks???....send bricks....
It’s a humorous idea, one that ought to be run past a lawyer before anybody tries to do it.
My layman’s reading of this is that it would probably qualify under the strict definition of “fraud” — causing somebody (the DNC) to do something (pay postage) that, but for your fraudulent activity (sending them phonebooks instead of cash) they would never otherwise do.
If that is true, using the USPS to do this might attract a charge of “Mail Fraud”. And using your computer and the FRee Republic to encourage others to do it might attract a charge of “Wire Fraud” as well.
That’s my uninformed layman’s view. Do any lawyers have a better informed view on this?
Plus this helps out the Postal Service which is having hard times...been doing this for years...Sierra Club, ACLU, Green party..it’s alot of fun
You could include a note, saying “I think you could enlarge your donor base if you send a letter to everyone in the attached list.” And include the phone books of the largest town in your state. Nothing fraudulent there.
That’s why you shouldn’t include a return address.
Who said anything about supplying a Return Address???
Why would I get mailings from the DNC? I already do this with the RNC and Newt though.
I responded to Republican requests for funds with notes stating that my donations would resume when President Bush and our Republican congress made a meaningful attampt to close the borders and reduce the size of government. But I didn't send rocks; I wated to straighten out the party, not break it!
With AARP and the RATs, I'll change that!
I would certainly not use my real name. I’d sign it Isabell Ringing or maybe Pussy Galore. I have a few Arab sounding names from SNL that I can’t use here on FR but I would NEVER use my real name.
The postal service treats these articles as waste. All you are doing is increasing the workload of the postage due sections.
Actually you should put the same address in the return address.In other words both addresses would be the same. That way AARP is going to get it no matter what the Post Office does.
This is why the Brady Center no longer uses postage paid envelops. </large evil grin>
We on the gun boards were mailing them boxes of empty steel cased cartridges picked up from the gun ranges.
Be sure to lick it and affix it to the note explaining that it is your 'donation.'
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Phone books are a new, and pretty obvious come to think about it, twist on this old tactic.
Bricks were the classic one. However I’ve heard of manhole covers being shipped back as well.
> Include a postage stamp as a donation. This should get around the fraud.
It might if it were to the full amount of the postage due. I imagine a phone book by First Class Post would be a pretty expensive package. Not the sort of “gesture” many folk could afford to make often.
Like I said before, it’s a cute idea, but I can see potential legal issues that ought to discourage anyone from doing it for real.
Just my $0.02 worth...
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