“Tired of receiving mounds of unsolicited letters and offers in the mail? Want to fight back? Want to get rid of that old tire in your garage that the garbage man won’t take?”

I heard about this trick a few years ago, and forgot about it. I just stumbled across Jason Bell’s “Postage Paid Envelope Revenge” with a step-by-step process and I thought it would belong here. Big companies often mail people unsolicited advertising letters, and they usually enclose postage-paid envelopes. The original trick I was told involved mailing back all the junk mail that didn’t contain a return-to envelope in one that had it. Jason’s original idea is to attach 20 kilos of additional junk you already have in your house and you want to get rid of.

It is free and it annoys people who usually are the ones annoying you. Plus, it is arguably 100% legal. I guess the drawback in the long run would be that they would stop sending prepaid return-envelopes altogether. But meanwhile, you can have some fun… I just wish someone came up with a way to do this with email spam…