In response to yesterday's blog about being overwhelmed with junk mail, my west coast brother shared an idea he had toyed with many years ago. He suggested that a person could heat their house with all that mail if you happen to have a wood burning stove. He theorized that, if you just fill out and mail in all the little post cards that are stuck in magazines, the post office will deliver enough mail to heat your house. Not a bad return for the cost of a few stamps. It also works to make a donation to one national charity. They will immediately sell your mailing information to every other charity in existence. At least all those trees would be put to some good use. I do find it somewhat ironic that, while every charity I can think of has my correct mailing address, recently I was sent a receipt by a township office, and it was sent to an address I haven't lived at for seven years. Happily, the gentleman I sold the house to forwarded it to me.
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