I hate to be a party-pooper, but the wickedly clever scheme devised by Canadian Cynic & Co. to deal with those annoying 10-percenters from the Conservatives has one teeny little flaw in it.
Pursuant to Part II, Subsection 35(4)(a), of the Canada Post Corporation Act (R.S., 1985, c. C-10), the exemption providing for free mail to or from a member of the House of Commons specifically does not apply to parcels.
The thought of thousands of angry householders mailing back cement bricks, old textbooks, last year’s phonebooks, rocks from the garden, or that broken blender they just haven’t gotten around to disposing of, was delightful — and there’s nothing to stop you from doing it — but it will have to be sent on your own dime.
Sorry boys. Back to the drawing board…
but my party… you have pooped it. oh well. i still have about a hundred and seventy 10%ers to ship back.
Sorry man.
Sorry boys. Back to the drawing board…
Holy Fuck. I never realised Red was that much of an authoritarian.
Are you serious, Red?
LOL Okay, that is actually pretty funny!
killjoy.
KEvron
Ti-Guy — Hey, I don’t make the rules, I’m just pointing them out.
“Hey, I don’t….”
i said good day, sir!
KEvron
still, drop the parcels in the mail box, Canada Post still has to pick them up and then dispose of them, after the first 10,000 brick parcels, Canada Post is going to start scream at Ottawa,…
You could still mailthat fake plastic vomit from the joke store,… or mail them a picture of a brick,… or a photocolour copy of your butt
I think forcing letter carriers to dispose of your crap deposited in mailboxes is a bit unfair to CanadaPost, but there are alternatives such as mailing back a xeroxed copy of your butt, rude pictures, or things like that might get the message across and provide some small measure of satisfaction in terms of payback.
OK, pictures of Harper’s gut it is!
If I had Photoshop skills I would have made that pic of Harper trailing Tiger woods look like Harper was the caddy and his belly was the bag.
Alright, that’s just mean. I love it!
Hmmm…..COD?
So why can’t the 10000 letters be mailed back INDIVIDUALLY? You can just dump them all into a mailbox… can’t you?
If you do send the parcels, make sure you call all the local media. It’s surprising who will show up – just to cover the story. If it makes the national news, so much the better. People have to do something about this f’n crap. I run a small restaurant in Pitt Meadows, and I get one shitpiece mailer from Randy Kamp every week. Each one is a bogus “poll” asking who will do better on a certain issue (they’re nationally exact mailers, so you all know what is being shoveled out here).
All this crap is for, is basically rule number one in marketing – any publicity is good pub, and keeping yourself in the public’s face has good consequences. I guarantee you that after dealing with all these mailers, a lot of Canadians will know who their local Con MP is, and they will mostly have recollection of SOME small part of the neoCon ideology.
I’m not quite sure that I understand how to mail these 10%er’s back. Understand about not making packages.
To do this do they have to be put into an envelope & addressed to the Party/MP? And is postage not needed? Also, can they be sent instead by writing “return to sender” on the actual pamplet?
If you just write “return to sender” on the 10-percenter itself and drop it in the mailbox, chances are they’ll simply be thrown in the garbage by CanadaPost. So, put it in an envelope, along with a snarky message or whatever and address it to the MP in question. No postage required (but it does cost you an envelope).
the mailers have the return address already printed for you. cut and fold the thing, inscribe with delicate verse and pop it in the mail box. they’ve made it ever so simple. otherwise, an envelope full of flyers for walmart, properly addressed works too.
Write letters often and frequently to the editor of your local newspaper complaining.
If they don’t put them in the paper – keep sending.
You can apply a version of this tactic to all those ^%$*&^%! credit card applications, too. Especially the bozos who offer me $70 credit if I only send them $70. cough*capital one*cough.
I get one or two a month. I remove the sheets which have my name or other ID on them, fold the rest and pop it into the postage-paid envelope provided, and mail it back with a light heart.
Postage-paid envelopes only cost the sender anything if they are used. So my tactic is a twofer — it punishes the credit card people, and gives Canada Post a little splash of income. What’s not to like?
Noni
Thankyou RT & PSA!
RuralSandi…Have done that over & over, nothing of them printed – YET. But will keep trying.
PSA — I haven’t received any yet, so I wasn’t sure about their exact layout in terms of the return address, so thanks for clearing that up.
I may send one back with a Pet Foil Hat Technology, since I can fit those into an envelope.
I pick up my neighbours’ 10%ers that are put into the trash/recycling under the mailboxes. Of 16 mailboxes, I typically get 6 or 7. Keep in mind I’m in Goodale’s riding, and have got about 8 of these mailings this year.
I think bloggers should respond to the mailings with a link to a post they’ve done on the subject so the government can track opposition to it at the very least. Writing garth.ca/blog on it would be good too.
“I remove the sheets which have my name or other ID on them, fold the rest and pop it into the postage-paid envelope provided, and mail it back with a light heart”
heh! i used to do that, too!
KEvron