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Andy Rooney's Tips for Dealing with Junk Mail and Telemarketers - They WORK!!
(1) The three little words are: "Hold on, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. Then when you
eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's
time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed
its task. These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and
records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is
used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call
back and get someone at home. What you can do after answering, if you notice
there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the
phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that
dialed the call and kicks your number out of their system. Since doing this,
my phone calls have decreased dramatically.
(3) Another Good Idea:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these
"ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail
away. When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything
from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away
the return envelope. Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes,
right? It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage "IF" and when
they receive them back. It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The
postage was around 50 cents before the last increase, and it is according to
the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail
and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
Another of Andy Rooney's ideas: Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to
American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get
anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back! If
you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you
send them. You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just
keep them guessing! Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will
begin getting their own junk back in the mail.
Let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all
they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is
cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase
postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work---- Some have been doing
this for years, and get very little junk mail anymore.
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