Comments on: No Postage Necessary http://www.rudishumpert.com/2009/08/17/no-postage-necessary/ Adventures in web development and analytics Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:53:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Mark C.http://www.rudishumpert.com/2009/08/17/no-postage-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-1988 Mark C. Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:58:22 +0000 http://codebynumbers.solutionworks.net/?p=68#comment-1988 Yes. I used to throw them away, then I evolved to sending them the application back...sans my info. As of late, I send the envelope back with some sort of papers or a photocopied (what else am I going to do at work?!?) magazine article. They get charged the postage, and some wage earner at the other end learns something about retired racing Greyhounds...or whatever magazine I am currently reading.I wish the ol' brick in a box trick worked, as many *think* it does. But according to Post Office Domestic Mail Manual code 8.4.6, "In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste." Yes. I used to throw them away, then I evolved to sending them the application back…sans my info. As of late, I send the envelope back with some sort of papers or a photocopied (what else am I going to do at work?!?) magazine article. They get charged the postage, and some wage earner at the other end learns something about retired racing Greyhounds…or whatever magazine I am currently reading.

I wish the ol’ brick in a box trick worked, as many *think* it does. But according to Post Office Domestic Mail Manual code 8.4.6, “In cases where a BRM card or letter is used improperly as a label, the USPS treats the item as waste.”

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