Got My Chuckle for the Day
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (86585)
United States
May 31, 2018 8:00pm CST
When I worked at the post office we weren’t allowed to call junk mail “junk mail.” It’s officially “business bulk mail,” or BBM.
As in, “big bunch of malarkey.”
At least once a month I’ve been receiving junk mail (sorry, BBM) from the “good folks” at AARP. Not just recently, either: this has been going on since I was in my mid-40s. The way I have it figured, if they would just stop sending me mail they’d save enough money to fund their organization for a good ten years.
Today the weekly AARP junk/“business bulk” mail arrived. If nothing else, it gave me my chuckle for the day.
As I said, they’ve been bombarding me with ads for at least a dozen years. That’s a lot of paper.
And yet....
On the back of the envelope.....
Please recycle.
“Please” is not completely accurate. It should be more along the lines of “Oh, puh-leeze.”
If y’all cared that much about paper you wouldn’t be sending me all this mail. I think it should be obvious by now that I’m not interested in becoming a member.
Oh well. At least I got my chuckle for the day.
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9 responses
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
1 Jun 18
They used up ten full grown pine trees, to let you know that recycling is a good way, to save our trees!LOL
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@FourWalls (86585)
• United States
1 Jun 18
The way they're going, you'll be issued an AARP piece of mail with your birth certificate!1 person likes this
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
1 Jun 18
I like how financial and credit card companies push going paperless to "go green for the environment" (i.e. save them the cost of mailing statements) then bombard with junk mail trying to sell some service.
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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3 Jun 18
Seems AARP is as responsible for our thinning forests as fires and lumberjacks, lol. I take my junk mail and place it inside other junk mail that have self-addressed paid envelopes and mail them back to the companies who sent them to me.
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
1 Jun 18
That's the irony of it. They tend to promote recycling and green earth but do it with all this unnecessary waste of paper and trees. 
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@Jessabuma (31696)
• Baguio, Philippines
1 Jun 18
Hehehe!!! At least you got your chuckle for the day.
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