Interesting solutions

THREE LITTLE WORDS....
>
> I suppose some degree of commerce would grind to a halt
> if telephone solicitors weren't able to call people at
> home during dinner hour. But that doesn't make it any
> more pleasant.
>
> Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco
> Chronicle, has proposed "Three Little Words" based on
> his brief experience in a telemarketing operation that
> would stop the nuisance for all time. 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 time-consuming that boiler rooms
> would grind to a halt. 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. This might be one of
> those articles you'll want to e-mail to your friends.
> Three little words that eliminate telephone soliciting.
>
> GOOD IDEAS:
>
> When you get ads in your phone or utility bill,
> include them with the payment - let the companies throw
> them away.
>
> When you get those pre approved letters in the mail
> for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and
> junk like that, most of them come with postage paid
> return envelopes, right? Well, why not get rid of
> some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool
> little envelopes!
>
> Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American
> Express. Send the pizza coupon to Citibank. If you
> didn't get anything else that day then just send them
> their application back! If you want to remain
> anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything
> you send them. You can send it back empty if you want
> to just to keep them guessing!
>
> Eventually, the banks and credit card companies will
> begin getting their junk back in the mail. Let's let
> them know what it's like to get junk mail, and the best
> of it is that they're paying for it! Twice!
>
> Let's help keep our postal service busy since they say
> e-mail is cutting into their business, and that's why
> they need to increase postage again!
>
> Send this to a friend or two or three...or fifty....