lol never knew that site existed.
I know becuase I worked for a direct marketing printing company. We produced about 8 billion pieces of mail per year. Each piece is personalized, in that it has your name and address, etc. Most are for companies like State Farm, Caterpillar, American Family, etc. We had the post office come to our facility to weigh verify the mail, 1% tolerance or they kick the semi-load. We loaded teh semi and it would deliver to post offices across the country, that post office would unload and sort the pallets to each post office in teh surrounding area, each sub-post office would break down the pallet and distribute the trays to each letter carrier. Each letter carrier would open up the tray and the first piece was addressed to the first person on thier route, second piece to second person, etc, assuming everybody on thier route got mail from that insurance company.
Now the return address was our facillity address. Yes, the undeliverable mail would be returned to us. We would either trash it, or sort and record the address and report the address to the company who paid for the mailing. If the ocmpany paid for us to sort out the bad addresses we would, otherwise it would get trashed. Now lets put this into perspective. Imagine a 10,000,000 piece mailing. 10% return rate. Companies put money into a postal account to cover the cost of return mail. As the post office processes the mail, the account is charged. Granted its a discounted rate due to bulk, however a brick is a brick is a brick and no doubt will suck funds out of that account pretty quick.
I see the site recommends a box, screw that, just tape the prepaid return address to the brick. There is a different rate for oversized mail. Even a reply card with the prepaid return address works, again tape it to a red brick.
and yes, we received some interesting things. Some people send us all thier junk mail. All we did was dump it in the trash. The company never saw it, however they did pay for it. :mrgreen:
