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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (4503)	11/19/1997 10:33:00 AM
From: ZinMaster	Read Replies (3) of 71178

I'm still fighting a holding battle with the junk mail. Every time an uninvited catalog arrives with its teddy bears, fruit cakes, or riding crops, I call the 800-number and ask them to remove me from their mailing list. Every item that comes with a business-reply envelope gets marked "REMOVE" and stuffed into the envelope. After all, they wanted to pay the postage twice. Every time I sign my name where it might be used on a mailing list, I insert the company or product name as my middle name. Then I can tell who's selling/using my address. (Charles Schwab is the worst). I tried putting out two mailboxes: one with my name, one said "resident". The postal carrier did not sort them for me. Every year I file a "Change of Address" for for "Resident". I check the deceased box. I imagine junk mailers dead of millions of papercuts on their tongues. Is this heroism? I'm not exactly throwing myself in front of the chainsaws or chaining my body to a redwood...but I imagine that I might save a tree this way.

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