Forum Post: This is a way for everyone to occupy
Posted 12 years ago on Nov. 19, 2011, 12:46 p.m. EST by Teamster
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This is a good way for everyone at home to help out with the movement.
I'm reluctant to watch political videos, especially monologues, but this one is a keeper!
In case others here have been reluctant to click on the link, some ideas it suggests are:
To use the "business reply mail" envelope from a free credit card offer as a way to message a bank
Each envelope, even empty, costs them 24 cents; filling it more might drive up the price. (Note this is less than you pay!)
Sending a piece of wood, roofing shingle etc. drives up the price further as a "rigid envelope"
You can include political or personal messages to the bank, and perhaps get them to have a meeting about it, making your cause something they have to react to.
Now some potential issues I see with this are:
I'm not sure it's actually legal. I find two hits claiming it isn't ( https://www.google.com/search?q="misusing+business+reply" ). On the other hand Harris v Time Inc, 1987 ( http://luyulei.net/cases/07_02_Harris-v-Time-Inc.html ) appears to support the right to send a business reply envelope empty or with a message enclosed. I don't actually know. (of course, how it is that it can cost you 44 cents to mail a letter and them 24 cents and they can accuse you of robbing them is another issue).
The banks might have other snide retorts, like finding some way to dub you a problem customer, cancel or worsen the terms of a credit card, or get those credit reporting agencies, who are accountable to no one, to abuse you.
Sending the envelope you got the offer in certainly means there's no doubt who sent this to them, and the envelope itself may well have a code of some sort, so these are plausible risks.
Bottom line: it's cute, it's entertaining, but I prefer a protest that increases our knowledge about them, not their knowledge about us.
Vote petition on the Internet : http://wh.gov/jkl
I don't get bank offers or credit card junk mail because I told the banks and credit card companies to f*ck off a long, long time ago. I bank with a local credit union and use only an ATM card.
Vote petition on the Internet : http://wh.gov/jkl
I'm sorry, but I just don't find this petition to be coherent. The only thing I understand of it is a plan to have the government track transactions of $50,000 or more, and they already do that on $10,000 or even less, something which many people find disturbing. I see it has one (1) signature...
Hi Teamster, Thank you for link. Best Regards, Nevada