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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (4503)	11/19/1997 10:33:00 AM
From: ZinMaster	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (4503)	11/20/1997 12:11:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Up and at 'em, lazy jfred. I sincerely hope you are not the kind of postal officer who takes the mail home with him, throws it in the basement, and gets drunk while reading the best catalogues... We have many such here...