Re: Loyalty cards again

In article <Jx88JC.BG3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Dorothy J Heydt) said:

> Well, the idea [behind the complaints] is (a) that knowing you buy
> cat stuff and chocolate (an all-around rasff'er, in other words),
> they're going to send you lots of targeted advertising for those
> things; and
>
> (b) that you don't want to receive *any* advertising, and targeted
> is just as obnoxious as non-targeted.  This is the attitude of
> many of us.

There exists a process by which you can give a piece of advertising
mail to your local postmaster with a form that says "I don't want
any more advertising mail from this source," and they'll make it
happen.

Ah, here it is online:

   Linkname: PS Form 1500 (PDF)
        URL: <http://www.usps.com/forms/_pdf/ps1500.pdf>

You can't tell from that but the name of the form is:

   Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order.

I suspect that you can get paper copies at your local post office,
unless they're lame.  By filling it out and filing it you assert:

   The attached mailpiece, from the mailer identified below, offers
   for sale matter that I believe to be *****cally arousing or
   ***ually provocative and therefore is a pandering advertisement.
   Under the provisions of 39 USC 3008, I request that a Prohibitory
   Order be issued against the mailer and the mailer's agents or
   assigns.

....but there's a huge loophole in that "I believe to be" clause;
apparently there's a federal court ruling that said that the post
office *has to* accept the petitioner's claim that they believe it,
no matter how ridiculous it may be on its face.

-- wds