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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/20/packard-jennings-bus.html
Just so beautiful!
Hmm, I think you already ran this some time ago...
My high school Ethics teacher used to keep postage-paid, business-reply envelopes/offers and swap their contents around, appropriately themed. The Esso envelope would get the Shell Oil contents, and vice versa.
how do I get one?
This is pretty amazing. I don't see any way to obtain these, though.
I absolutely adore this.
Although, call me paranoid, might someone not get into trouble for sending back a comic depicting nudity and sex? Some idiot might decide it was pornography as opposed to satire (or, constructive criticism)...
So where's the printable version?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure BB has done this before. I remember thinking, "Hey, someone else has seen Fight Club! What are the odds?"
love that
This has been floating around the internet for many years, but this is the first time I'd heard of its supposed usage. :) I likes.
These comics were featured in issue #5 of Rolling Thunder, about the best anarchist journal around: http://www.crimethinc.com/rt/
Man, there is a lot of awesome on this Centennial Society site.
I'd love to do this, but being paranoid, I'm afraid they'd trace it back to me using some obscure code on the return envelope.
I think it is saying something about our culture that depictions of destroying property and overthrowing the capitalist system aren't seen as the dangerous part, it's that we might get into trouble sending around drawings where some of the people aren't wearing pants.
I converted the first nine panels into a b/w (easy to print at the office) one-pager here: http://img21.yfrog.com/i/businessreply.jpg/
-- MrJM
We've only ever made it as far as panel eight. Darn.
"Throw off the shackles of oppression! Refuse to submit to stuffing envelopes! Overturn the status quo! And, by the way - start fires, take off your clothes, and have sex - it's the only way to be sure."
re @2
> My high school Ethics teacher used to keep postage-paid, business-reply envelopes/offers and swap their contents around, appropriately themed.
As a small business owner who has a Bus Reply permit, and who pays the postage on each package mailed to us (AND an extra handling fee AND an extra annual accounting fee), every fake Bus Reply envelope mailed to us is money out of my own pocket.
That's money that can (and otherwise would) do a lot of things - support local bookstores, buy T-shirts, rent movies, get a snack at a coffeehouse.
...but, instead, that money gets burned to power a fraction of a USPS truck, a fraction of a USPS jet, a fraction of a USPS mail sorting machine.
I'd be interested in hearing your Ethics teacher's justification for burning up another person's money for a prank.
#11:
If your business reply permit is used for junk mail, you only have yourself to blame for not having enough money left to purchase over-priced coffee at "the local coffeehouse", and I have no sympathy for you.
Remember, all those "fractions" you spoke of go both ways. You used a fraction of a USPS jet to SEND the junk, you used a fraction of a USPS truck...
If you're NOT using your BRP to send junk mail, then this will be the type of correspondence that will not result in irate can't-take-it-anymore people sending you garbage right back.
The choice is ultimately yours.
re@12
if you send out unsolicited, junk mail that includes a postage prepaid return envelope, then you had better budget for paying the return postage on any/all of those envelopes. I didn't ask to get your junk in my mailbox, and I am certainly under no obligation to not put your return envelope back in the mail - if you're lucky, I might even include a clever cartoon like this for you to enjoy!
@12 TJIC
"As a small business owner who has a Bus Reply permit, and who pays the postage on each package mailed to us (AND an extra handling fee AND an extra annual accounting fee), every fake Bus Reply envelope mailed to us is money out of my own pocket."
It depends what you are using your postage-paid envelopes for. If they are arriving in my mailbox as part of an unsolicited sales pitch, well, cry me a river. You deserve what you get.
If you are including them in communications to your existing customers for them to use to remit payments or re-order, and sending them for similar purposes to individuals who have contacted you for information, then you have a very legitimate gripe.
If you do both, you'll have to stop the spamming before you can beef about it.
TJIC, before you use up all of your righteous indignation, Esso and Shell (and, indeed, the majority of bulk reply mail envelopes I've ever seen) are anything BUT small corporations, and they continued to dump their mail in my mailbox, long after I gave up trying to be taken off their mailing lists. I grew up in a small family business, so yes, I acknowledge what you're saying is valid.
But.
A small company would probably take me off their mailing list if so requested.
A big company? I'll ask a time or two, but after that...I don't much care anymore.
i agree with MAA, if you're carpet bombing with spam, you deserve to get worked over for it. maybe you'll be more discriminatory in selecting your prospective customers if you know that more than 1/1000 are going to actually cost you that postage with a reply.
Harlan Ellison always suggested taping the envelope to a brick and dropping it in a mail box.
thanks for posting the one pager! I just printed a dozen for my friendly credit card co.
@16
I always wanted to try that, but was afraid he'd sue me for stealing his idea.
Can anyone provide a credit for the artist who produced this work of staggering genius? It's nice to see it in continued circulation after all these years, but I'd really like to know who made it.
I'm not sure how much better this is than a slice of deli ham...
That's artist Packard Jennings who does absolutely brilliant work.
This is one of the best solutions I've seen for this kind of thing.
I used to send them back with random bits of newspaper or other detritus stuffed inside, until I realized I wasn't so much sticking it to the Man as sticking it to the minimum wage saps who have to open the mail and sort it out.
At that point I started sending them back with a dollar stuck inside. That way I'm simultaneously wasting the Man's postage, and also brightening the day of his wage slave.
You'd think they'd at least slap a PDF up on lulu.com.
Artists, eh? Notaclue.
Beneath the cubicles...a firepit!
The artist is the great culture jammer Packard Jennings.
OMG! It's Office Space meets Fight Club!! I love it!
I somehow feel like I've seen this before.
On BoingBoing.
I know a guy who used to send business-reply letters back with a sheet exhorting the low-paid envelope openers to unionize. I don't think it was a comic, though.
I have to ask, how feasible is stage six? Isn't most glass used in windows that comprise a whole wall right down to the floor pretty extra-strong?
It might take superhuman strength to get a copier to break through...
@1 - bah, you timetravellers are destroying teh internets.
Well I don't know about the legality of it, but you can capture the page with the Scrapbook extension for Firefox. All of the panels are there in all of their clicky glory.