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? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? #12789435 06/12/18 05:44 PM
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Discussion over the weekend Mexican Train: Those sheets of return address labels received from unsolicited sources asking for donations to support their cause. I think I get two or three a month and I have no qualms about using the return address labels they gave me. I didn't ask for the labels, they sent them in a solicitation package asking for money. I think they're mine to do with as I damm well please whether or not I decide to send them money. If there's a logo, picture or whatever on them I cut it off leaving just my return address, regardless if I'm a member or supporter of the organization.

Two of the other players (interestingly, wife and husband but not married to each other) say I'm dead wrong and grossly immoral for using the labels without sending the organization money.

What says the TFF?


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Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789442 06/12/18 05:48 PM
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it has my name on it... that means it belongs to me.


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Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789446 06/12/18 05:51 PM
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Of course you use them.

Its wasteful not too.

And when those suckers send me a dime and say "this is all it takes a day to feed a hungry child". What the what?! Then you should have mailed it to them. I take that dime and put it right in my coffee can of change you better believe dat!

Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789448 06/12/18 05:51 PM
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I don't look at that type of mail.
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Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: RATZ] #12789459 06/12/18 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted By: RATZ
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Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: UGLYSHCTICK] #12789461 06/12/18 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted By: UGLYSHCTICK
it has my name on it... that means it belongs to me.

Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789486 06/12/18 06:11 PM
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Use them unless we have too many, then toss them. Lot of $$ spent on sending this stuff so they must get contributions.

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Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789498 06/12/18 06:17 PM
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We have no need. Rarely use snail mail.


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Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789511 06/12/18 06:22 PM
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If it doesnt have a real stamp on it it never gets opened

Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789515 06/12/18 06:28 PM
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Got $2 bill in an envelope last week asking me to log onto a site to take a survey. I'm $2 richer and didn't log on to their website. Usually just throw away the obvious junk mail, but for some reason I opened it last week.

The last thing I used those free address labels for was to update the address on my blank checks. I send something thru the mail where I would need a return address label almost as much as I use my checks. Only a couple times a year. roflmao


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Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789526 06/12/18 06:37 PM
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Its not like a bonafide charity is putting you on Santas naughty list. They hired a third party to obtain mailing lists and create and send the solicitation for a large fee. This will become a thing of the past anyway. Nobody but olds actually still mail any significant amount of ground mail.

Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789580 06/12/18 07:19 PM
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Use them. Wasteful to throw them away and they don't recycle.

Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789601 06/12/18 07:32 PM
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At work, we have vendors that bring food to the office all the time. Usually breakfast tacos or the like. Sometimes it is guys that are perpetual high bidders with whom we have never spent a dime. Am I supposed to leave that guy's tacos on the counter because I've never bought his equipment?

Some folks just don't understand how marketing works.


Re: ? Using Unsolicited Return Address Labels? [Re: DCmac] #12789628 06/12/18 07:52 PM
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If they send them, I will use them with a clear conscious.


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