I’m really not much of a complainer — more of a live-and-let-live kind of person. But can I just tell you how sick to death I am of those loose, postage paid subscription cards that keep falling out of magazines?
It isn’t just the random one or two magazines that arrive in my mailbox. NO!
I work in a bookstore. My rant is about the ones falling out of the hundreds of magazines on the racks. They litter the floor. Everytime I pass by the newsstand section of the store, I pick up at least a dozen and toss them in the trash.
I think it is time to start mailing them back to the magazines. I think every employee of every bookstore, grocery store, newsstand, convenience store, gas station, discount store and anywhere else magazines are sold should start collecting those cards.
I think we should start mailing them in. From my store alone that would be maybe 200 cards a week – easy. Multiply that by the other 800 some-odd stores in our company and that’s 160,000. Then add in all the Walmarts, Targets, Walgreens, CVS, etc.
If they pay the postage for that many blank cards, at some point we might actually become a big expensive pain in the butt to those magazine companies.
Plus, we’d be recycling. We’d be using the magazines’ money to help support the USPS, and perhaps keep them from raising stamp prices for a bit.
So, here’s my call to action. If your as annoyed as me, pass this idea along to everyone you know. Start gathering cards. Let’s show them some love!