[OZAPRS] A Few Tips That Might Work

[Brian Beamish]

Hi Folks
 
Normally would not send one like this out to OZAPRS but if you like me are
sick of that junk mail and phone calls when you are just sitting down
eating your evening meal etc if we all did the following whilst it may not
curtail it sure would help relieve that frustration.
 
Go for it.
 
Regards Brian VK4BBS
 
 Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers
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Three Little Words That Work !!
(1) The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off
(instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each
telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler
room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's
"beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your
handset,
which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone
soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other
end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes
phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the
phone.This technique is used to determine the best time of day
for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at
home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no
one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the
phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine
that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system.
Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system
any longer !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility
bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies
throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for
everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk,
do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes,
right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF"
and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage
was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is
according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your
other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid
return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American
Express.
Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. 
If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank
application
back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name
isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to
just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently
getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but
folks, we need to OVERWHELM them.
Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk
mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are
saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's
why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work----
I have been doing this for years, and I get very little
junk mail anymore.

THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL
WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS .
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