United States Postal Service Rescue Project

  Uncle Sam Needs You!

News & Updates

We are not affiliated with the USPS, but we recognize that the Postal Service is in need of our help! Increased competition and bureaucratic waste are bankrupting this vital government service. We fear the increase in first-class postage rates will not be enough to end this crisis. We are launching a mission to rescue the Postal Service, but it will require the help of all Americans.

Your participation in this important project will cost you nothing but a few minutes of your time each week. Even better, it promises to save your community money in the years ahead. This will minimize future property and sales tax increases in your hometown. It's easy! It's fun!

How Does It Work?

If you are like me, you receive a dozen or more solicitations in your mailbox each week. Most of these are from credit card companies. Others are from magazine solicitors, insurance companies, bogus contests you've won even though you never entered, and so forth.

You can turn this junk from your mailbox into a windfall for the Postal Service. Simply start returning all of those postage-paid envelopes and postcards to the senders. The solicitors get to pay the postage coming and going!

Let's Have Some Fun!

Don't just return empty envelopes to these Pee Pee Heads. Stuff those postage-paid envelopes full of the fliers and brochures and such that arrived with them. Mix this stuff up ... put the fliers and credit disclosure statements from CapitalOne into the postage-paid envelope going back to MBNA. And vice versa.

Toss in some of those cents-off coupons that fill up your mailbox each week. Add the Seran Wrap from the tuna fish sandwich you had for lunch! Candy wrappers are fun. Rabbit turds are better. Please don't send anything dangerous or illegal. This isn't  jihad, for pity's sake!

You can even return the personalized applications themselves. Just run them through your shredder first. Sending back envelopes full of confetti is quite amusing indeed. (Have we mentioned that we are easily amused?)

Here is a typical week's mailing from our home. Notice how each envelope is crammed full of stuff!

Reduce My Property Taxes?

Landfills are precious commodities and are getting more expensive to acquire and operate each year. When you sack up all of this trash mail and set it out at your curb, you are filling up your own landfill with material you did not request in the first place. By participating in this program, you will be returning this trash to its rightful owner and putting it into their own landfills. Depending on the size of your community and the level of participation in this program, you can easily steer tons of trash away from your landfill and extend its useful life by years!

Let's Get Started!

We plan to track the results on this web site by state. Please keep track of the number of postage-paid envelopes and cards you return. Report them to us, along with your home state, using the guestbook below:

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As of Jan. 3, 2009, at least 2,669 pieces of junk mail have been returned to their rightful owners as a result of this website! Possibly 16 brazilian or so additional pieces may have been returned and not yet reported to us. Gosh!

(Nov. 1, 2003 -- revised January 2006) -- We recently read that many telemarketing executives have placed their own home phone numbers on the federal "Do Not Call" list. Seems they don't like being bothered at home during dinner any more than we do!

This gave us an idea for a new way to get back at the direct mail solicitors. Let's turn them loose on one another. It could play out something like this:

Scene 1: We find in our mailbox postage paid reply cards from ATI Technical Institute, Oreck Vacuum, Columbia House DVD Club, United Healthcare Insurance and First Lady SPA. Mixed in with those is a crudely copied form letter from a local realtor who would like to list our house.

Scene 2: We return the reply cards to ATI, Oreck, Columbia House, United Healthcare and First Lady SPA requesting everything they have to offer. We provide telephone numbers and an email address to give them even more ways to get in touch with us. Thing is, we've used the realtor's name, address, phone numbers and email.

Scene 3: A week or so later, the phone rings at our realtor's house. "Hello, Mr. Realtor, this is a follow-up call from Columbia House DVD Club ... how are you today?"

Mr. Realtor: "I'm fine, but I think you should know that I am on the National Do Not Call Registry."

Columbia House: "But, Mr. Realtor, we are simply responding to the request you sent for additional information about our offer ... "

Forgiveness is divine, but a little revenge can be sweet at times ...no?

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