A Mailbox Full of Crap

[MLP88]

Learn to think. Then make videos.

[BlakeMason2]

Who the F is harry and david?? Man I have my head up my *ss. I have purposely for years avoided at all costs getting put on mailing lists. I guess harry and hooterville missed me, along with crap in a barrel. ;)

[xy262]

how long has it been since you've seen your cock....20-35 years?

[hartnell114]

if you hate that,wait untill you see what crappola i send you! haha

[FantasticBabblings]

That's different. Your crappola is welcome :)

[RadinMcGyver]

GAY PEOPLE ARE GAYYYYYY

[jonsalvator]

I absolutely love this video.

[TandEeesDad]

LOL...poor Harry and David....I loved that line Phil. I too make a point of not buying anything from companies that send me crap in the mail...or worse yet solicit by phone...they never fail to fuck up suppertime.

Thx for the vid.

[FantasticBabblings]

I no longer have a land line, so I don't have much problem with the phone calls. Now if I could just opt out of Uncle Sam's postal racket.

[FantasticBabblings]

Same here. I shop at KMart and King Size direct.

[AVDJ]

There should be a national "do not crap in my mailbox" registry.

[FantasticBabblings]

Let's all bring our junk mail to the next Beer Summit and burn it as a protest!

[AVDJ]

YES! I am sure we would all go to jail, but there is a kernel of a great idea there. I wonder, could we make an environmental impact by showing the need to create the do not crap initiative. :) nice work!

[CountryComesToTown]

Phil I like that last little bit. Now that's the paper that talks.

[FantasticBabblings]

And Bloomberg has plenty of it. He doesn't even have to drop it off. I'll come pick it up.

[nightladymagic]

lol I get alot of junk mail also and I agree why not send it through my email instead of the mail .save more trees that way

[FantasticBabblings]

It's really irresponsible. Thanks for watching.

[fehquig]

I don't get a lot of crap mail... Except bills.

[FantasticBabblings]

Since my bills are all electronic, all of my mail is crap.

[ShortbusMooner]

LOL! I still get alot of crap in the snail-mail, too. I was thinking about opting out, since you can do that, now.

Have a good week, sugar! *hugs*

[FantasticBabblings]

Hugs back to you, darlin.

[jrsnyderjr]

"very pretentious looking models" hahaha!

It's taken me years, but that stuff has gone down to almost nothing and any day now I'm expecting whatever mail stop I'm unaware of, to be removed and release a flood!

perfect ending!

[FantasticBabblings]

Did you see that guy's picture. He was trying so hard to look like Johnny Depp.

[Castaa]

Ha, nice.

[FantasticBabblings]

Hi Jon.

[VoxTheory]

Phil you always succeed in giving me a laugh! Great video.

[FantasticBabblings]

If I can make you laugh, I am happy.

[0nyxBlackman]

I love youtube videos that have a punchline...5 stars.

[FantasticBabblings]

Cash is the best punch line.

[kenrg]

Hey! Telling Harry & David to screw each other is fine, but the poor Riviera Pears are just innocent victims in all this!

I pay just about everything online (the only checks I write are to the IRS - let them wait for the mail), but while I've saved on envelopes and stamps, it hasn't slowed the flow of crap to my mailbox either.

[FantasticBabblings]

Hey, it's either the pears or the poor gerbils.

[andymooseman]

LOL Great video Phil.

We have that very same problem over here in the UK.

I recycle as much as i can. But, it really pisses me off to see the amount of money & paper that's wasted on junk mail :)

[FantasticBabblings]

We need an international uprising against junk mail. Are you in?

[andymooseman]

Count me in Phil.

I'll send my confirmation in the mail ;)

[sinrboy]

OMG, I freaking love the end:P

[FantasticBabblings]

Show me the money, Mike!

[sunsetlover]

Fantastic, love it!

[FantasticBabblings]

Thanks.

[3CoolKats]

LOL, GREAT ending!!! I feel your pain. I take every measure humanly possible to minimize the amount of junk mail I get but It of course still comes. Just today I received a jury summons, (Gasp!!!).

[FantasticBabblings]

Jury summons! That is the junkiest mail of all :)

[socialmedianinja]

yeah it saves THEM everything, but do they pass the discount to you? no damn bastards!!!

[FantasticBabblings]

Of course not. No savings for us.

[Skeezy727]

"FAIL!"

haha, best part.

[FantasticBabblings]

It only works when you throw the catalog across the room :)

[TemperaMagenta]

This reminds me of the recent election in Norway. There was this political party that handed out large and nearly empty plastic bags during their campaign. It only contained two fliers and a bottle of water with their logo on it. They just stuffed this useless bag into my hand just as I walked off the bus and it pissed me off. The grocery stores are trying all sorts of methods to reduce the usage of plastic bags, and these politicians throws them around everywhere. It did cost them my vote.

[FantasticBabblings]

I wouldn't vote for anyone who did that.

[mwest1234]

I agree, too much junk mail, and I've tried to go paperless as much as possible. The one I really hate is the newspaper-looking grocery ads. There's no option to remove those and they take the most space in the box.

[kenrg]

That stuff doesn't even make it into my house - I go straight from the mailbox to the recycling bin - I only take in what I need to read (or shred).

[mwest1234]

I wonder if anyone knows of a national opt out of junkmail list that we can sign up for?

[FantasticBabblings]

Same here, but NY has a backlog of recycling, so they still cart off lots of stuff in the recycling bin and put in the landfill in Staten Island. Poor Staten Island.

[Eyepix65]

Does the Mayor have a vested interest in any landfills on Staten Island??

[FantasticBabblings]

It wouldn't surprise me. He has so much money, thought, that $100 million is like tip money for him.

[rickslate]

@Eyepix65 he probably owns recycling and print companies

[lovasip]

You should see our IKEA catalog. They send an entire book annually. To everyone in the area.

I also got cheesee-papers every day from someone who wants to buy my flat (not on sale), change my windows, fix the water-pipes, deliver pizza, not to mention the cosmetitians (I am a man, and not even metrosexual)

The good thing is that we have a box outside so that they do not put the really big garbage into the private mailboxes (mostly)

[thebigfatlamp]

all the useless shit that gets sent to me makes me feel important. lol. at least someone cares enough to advertise to me. :P

[kmi187]

Hmm, seems like the situation in the US isn't any different. I've been trying to go paperless for the better part of the last 2 years now. I even have an official sticker approved by our postal service that says "no advertising or junk mail" on my mailbox. Still ... i have to empty my mailbox about every day, although it has gotten a lot better. Opting out of snail mail isn't as easy as you'd think.

[FantasticBabblings]

They won't honor the stickers here.

[gllafc]

Does anyone actually read those election flyers? I have been more bothered this time with the phone calls.

btw What is behind you? A wall? A shower curtain? Whatever it is, I like it!

[FantasticBabblings]

I never read them either. Anyone who makes their decision based on a flyer or TV commercial shouldn't vote.

It is a piece of fabric (spandex, actually) backdrop. I bought it at Spandex World in the Garment District. There is every color of spandex you could imagine and more. Plus some sequins.

[Zublime75]

Yikes!! I guess living in the middle of nowhere, we only get the very poor quality supermarket pamphlet with the sales of the week and 2 other junk stuff every now and then :)

[FantasticBabblings]

Wait until you have lived there a few more years. It will start.

[Dadalama]

out of all of my mail maybe 1/8th of it isn't junkmail.

[FantasticBabblings]

My ratio is probably 1/20th.

[maynardcat]

For some reason I don't get much junk mail anymore. Some days I get no mail a at all, which is good. I have not received any credit card offers for years until yesterday. It was a so called prestige Visa black card, which had an annual fee of 500.00. Now why would anyone pay 500.00 a year for a stupid credit card, when Discover pays you money back when using theirs. I agree with Beachmama 57, I hate getting credit card checks. I pay credit cards in full each mo., I do not need checks.

[FantasticBabblings]

I love the days when I don't get mail.

[RoulinBrooks]

Hilarious! We're all in the same boat. I get a mountain of garbage in my mailbox every week. It all goes straight into recycling. I'm very environmentally conscious. I have 2 rain barrels, 2 composters, 2 clothes lines, a push lawn mower and I don't own a car. But sometimes I think "What's the point?" when I get 87 pounds of unwanted glossy paper in my mailbox every week. Ever try to contact them and get off the mailing list? Slamming your head against a brick wall is more effective.

[FantasticBabblings]

It defies common sense. Today I rode home on a hybrid bus (saves energy, right?) The air conditioner was blasting although it was a chilly evening. It must have been 60 degrees in there. Wasting energy on the hybrid bus.

It is an uphill battle.

[thedefendingchamp]

Haha. This was great. You can always make a collage with the underwear models.

[FantasticBabblings]

Let me find that glue.

[waterlogged22]

Oh, me too, me too. Catalogs and circulars from you name it. We have paper recycling here and I can barely roll the container down the driveway to the street. Thank God for it though. Most of the junk mail I receive goes from my hand to the recycle bag. The only thing these people do not make a customer out of me.

[FantasticBabblings]

I wonder what the ratio of actual purchasers to catalogs is?

[PappyStu]

I never look at mail... I never answer the phone... Fortunately MrsDigiot does... Life is too short...

[FantasticBabblings]

I wonder if I stopped getting the mail they would stop delivering it?

[PappyStu]

It might work when the box gets totally stuffed... But you might miss your reply from Santa...

[FantasticBabblings]

That fat SOB can deliver things down my chimney. He don't need no mailbox :)

[Grandpageech]

Very well said! I get all that kind of crap as well, and I have no idea why. I don't order anything from anybody, mostly because I am flat broke all the time.

GG

P.S. I think your idea for the Harry & David pears is the best. I got them as a gift once and they certainly are not good for anything else. They tasted horrid.

[FantasticBabblings]

Some of these places I have never bought anything from, like Restoration Hardware and West Elm.

[thatgaybloke]

I make a point of refusing to give my address in shops that ask for it so that I avoid going on these mailing lists.

For me, even worse than the junk mail is packaging. I buy chicken from the supermarket which comes in a polystyrene tray with some kind of absorbent sheet in the bottom, is wrapped in plastic film which in turn sits inside a cardboard sleeve. Invariably the cashier will put it in a thin plastic bag before it goes into the main shopping bag. Madness.

[FantasticBabblings]

Overpackaging is another irritant. When I buy fruit at the greengrocer, I put loose items in the basket. The checkout always puts each item in plastic before putting all the plastic bags in another plastic bag. I ask them not to, but they ignore me.

[MisterWeed]

Is it not possible to put "no advertisements" sticker on your mailbox in the US? Or Rather will they not adhere to it? My Parents always had that so you get only mail no commercial stuff.

[FantasticBabblings]

They won't adhere to it. Nowadays junk is the only business the Post Office gets.

[PrincessDiana161]

I notice now when I go shopping in certain stores they ask for my zip code... I always tell them NO and to put in their own. They use it to send those crappy things to me too.

Pear Fucking FTW!!!

[FantasticBabblings]

I don't give them the info, but if you use a credit card, they get it anyway. I'm going to start using cash only (after Bloomberg gives me some.)

Those pears are fucking hot!

[Beachmama57]

I have the same mailbox full of crap. The waste astounds me. Also I hate the fact that my credit card companies send blank checks with my name and acct # in the mail for anyone to steal and use. IT'S GOTTA STOP!

[thatgaybloke]

The credit card company blank cheques are an abomination. Especially since they are a trick to charge you interest.

I'm sure I read somewhere that consumer groups are trying to get them outlawed here in the UK.

[FantasticBabblings]

They are also dangerous. If somebody takes them from your mailbox and uses them you have a world of worry.

[FantasticBabblings]

I hate the blank checks. I can't just toss them; I have to shred them. More extra work, more waste.

[angryislander56]

I bought a 40.00 ring from Birk's ( the Canadian

Tiffany's) 10 years ago and I get the huge glossy

catalogue every year. Average cost of contents

5 grand.

A similar avalanche of crap awaits me at the post

office every day. Great vid!

[FantasticBabblings]

Seems like they could refine their databases to figure out who isn't buying and stop sending.

[freitasex]

I agree with you so much.

I ordered (online) from some Big & Tall XL company and they just keep sending and sending stuff from them and their subsidiaries.

I also wish the paper that they send was small and green.

Lately (just a note to you) I have been clicking on the popups and hope that it give you some green.

[FantasticBabblings]

I get the big and tall catalogs too. And I never order from them. I always order online. I asked them to stop sending the catalog, but I not only get the one in the mail, they stuff one in every order.

[NEOjsg]

This video is even better than sending all your mail back. (I don't open anything without a NAME in the return address).

Imagine a viral chain video of everyone 'advertising' their junk email on youtube, for everyone to see? Priceless!

[FantasticBabblings]

I don't open it, but I have to take it out of the box and dispose of it.

[MGABBYB]

Agreed. I can't stand junk mail. So many times, I get catalogs that say something like 'you haven't ordered from us in a while, place your order now, or this may be your last issue'. I do the happy dance because I don't want to receive their catalog anymore, but the following month, I get it again.

[FantasticBabblings]

I got that threat from Harry and David more than ten years ago. And they still keep coming.

[1938superman]

People ought to be able to opt out of junk mail from their various distributors, like we do online and like we're supposed to be able to with telemarketers. And if they continue, it should be considered harassment. Congress should pass a law. People being subjected to advertisements in public is fine, but they should have the right to say, "I don't want to be getting this shit at home." :-)

[FantasticBabblings]

Right on, man of steel!

[SydTheSkeptic]

Aw man....that glossy paper doesn't even cut it as toilet paper. That makes it a waste of waste.

[FantasticBabblings]

You're telling me. Of course folks used to use the Sears catalog in the outhouse. Guess it wasn't glossy then.

[laptopanimal]

I usually put them all back in the letter box marked PLEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR MAILING LIST. THANK YOU

[FantasticBabblings]

Does that work?

[laptopanimal]

I do believe it has helped. Of course it is only possible to do it if they have their address showing to return it to.

[FTLNewsFeed]

Time Warner Cable/Road Runner needs to increase their upload and download speeds, they're pathetic for the price you pay!

[FantasticBabblings]

I know! For a few years speeds were increasing, but they have been static for a long time.

[FullOfFail]

caller id on your tv? yeah, even if i was rich as hell I wouldnt take that deal.

[FantasticBabblings]

It is the ultimate couch potato laziness.

[strangeparty]

The thing that really irks me is getting glossy, expensive mailings from charities.

[FantasticBabblings]

It makes you wonder where the money really goes.

[LastNickNameOnEarth]

I'm straight, but suddenly I want to have sex with you. Stop talking sense, I may abandon my sexual proclivities.

[FantasticBabblings]

That's the most interesting comment I've had in a while :)

[Largo64]

Great video! The ones that annoy me most are the appeals for money. I used to stuff all of their crap into their self-addressed machine-stamped envelope and send it back to them, but the bastards have gotten smart. Now they don't stamp the return envelope. I know it didn't do any good anyway, but it made me feel better.

[FantasticBabblings]

I know what you mean. And if you contribute something, all they do is spend your entire contribution on mailings asking you for more.

[dancingsprite]

I think we should just shut down the post office, all I ever get is stupid marketing crap that I dont want. Wastes my time :P

[FantasticBabblings]

I wouldn't have a problem with shutting it down.

[TamHickey67]

I, too get sick of all of the junk mail products which are so expensively made which tend to have little to reccommend them in the first place. It gets worse though as we also get it through buying our newspapers. We open the pages to find glossy magazines and glossy fliers all over the place. It's indecently expensive to create these things too. Think premises, models, photographers, products and printers to name but a few. Advertisers seem to be stuck in the past, sadly.

[FantasticBabblings]

It is obsolete. I wonder how profitable it is.

[OhCurt]

Amen.

...and if Harry & David employ the use of those pears, I WANNA SEE IT!

(I promise I didn't write a rough draft of this comment on actual paper before posting it here)

[FantasticBabblings]

I've always suspected those two were just a couple of fruit baskets. And talk about your Tower of Treats!

No trees were harmed in the making of this comment.

[ubuibiok]

★★★★★

[canucktunes]

I usually call them up on their toll free number and ask them to remove me from their mailing list. It works most of the time.

[FantasticBabblings]

It's such a pain in the ass to have to do. It will stop the catalogs, but not the pols.

[canucktunes]

Yeah, all we can do is reduce the amount of mailings.

I'm registered with the Canadian Marketing Association's no mailing service but like the DMAchoice service in the states it only stops mailings from the association's members.

[CCF01]

You tell 'em FB!

[FantasticBabblings]

Wind me up and point me at 'em.

[nightpotato]

I loled QUITE heartily at the pear catalog part.

[FantasticBabblings]

Those pears look suspiciously like butt plugs.

[denivish]

Well said.

[FantasticBabblings]

Thank you.

[Ranblv]

Here we have the automated voice calls that come during dinner, and we don't have a registry where you can chose to unlist from them.

Advertising has gone from a useful service 30 years ago to the great source of annoyance.

[FantasticBabblings]

I got rid of my land line partly for that very reason. Even though I was on the registry here, I still got robocalls - especially from politicians. When Hillary ran for Senate first time, every day I could count on a voice mail from her or Bill.

[JesusSavesAtCitibank]

HA! I loved it! I do everything [important] online as well, and it's gotten to the point I hate opening my mailbox because I know it's become just a cornucopia of trash.

I didn't know Bloomingdales was gay. Huh.

[FantasticBabblings]

Bloomingdales is very very gay. Believe me.

[NEOjsg]

Remember in the movie Splash when the mermaid lands on the NY shore, find the guy she was looking for but doesn't know any English?

He leaves her alone, she watches tv and the first word she learned was "Bl-bl-Bloomingdales?"

[achampag]

"now i am gay but i'm not rich" LOLOL

hey now, why cant they send ME pics of half naked hotties? hmm...i might have to work on that =)

great vid phil.

[FantasticBabblings]

You want half naked hotties, I can send you some links =0

[Wilberbeest]

Are you even capable of making a shitty video? Five stars, Mr. Babblings.

[FantasticBabblings]

Thanks, but I have made a few that aren't so good. I'm not saying which ones, but...

[achampag]

i looked into not being sent all that crap. the post office told me that i had to come down there, fill something out, and then pay a FEE. A FUCKING FEE to stop the junk mail..

[FantasticBabblings]

That sucks. My guess is even if you paid the fee after a couple of months they would start up again.

[ProfMTH]

I *love* Crate & Barrel and I *love* getting their catalogue. (I love getting the CB2 catalogue, too.) Same for a few others. But I agree with your overall point: too much paper and too much junk in the mailbox.

And the political mail here in NYC has been outrageous this year. Horrible waste. One would be tempted to think Bloomberg has serious competititon.

[FantasticBabblings]

Crate and Barrel has a lovely website, which is where I bought my lamps. It is so much more efficient.

I wish Bloomberg had some competition, but he just spends the money because he can. I think as of last week it was $36 million so far. And he doesn't even notice it.

[ProfMTH]

"Crate and Barrel has a lovely website...."

I know. But it's sort of like reading the newspapaer online: it seems one doesn't stumble acorss things that one might not otherwise have found. I guess I'm just an old fashioned "gal." ;-)

"I wish Bloomberg had some competition...."

You and me both. I've grown weary of hearing his voice.

[wildheart5]

Amen!

[FantasticBabblings]

Hallelujah!

[qiranger]

"Dear Harry and David: Go fuck yourselves. Better yet, go fuck each other with your Riviera pears."

I love that line!!!!

[FantasticBabblings]

I have had those pears and they are good. But after I made that comment I'm not sure I could eat another one.

[myohomojo]

I send all the free business reply envelopes back empty, or better yet, with other adverstisers' stuff in it. They still have to pay postage. I wonder if we all did that would direct mailing become too expensive to be effective?

[FantasticBabblings]

It's too much work, but maybe if we could coordinate everybody doing that for a week.... I'm putting you in charge.

[keytoothed]

You could make your own pulp. make handmade paper.

[FantasticBabblings]

But what would I do with it? I don't use much paper anyway. Well, except for the obvious uses :)

[keytoothed]

Like, arts and crafts, make your own books. (If you're into to that thing.) I wouldn't wipe your ass with it, though. Who knows what you'd get.

[Cloudff7yaoi]

rofl I love the end. I wonder how big of a pile it would be if we all took one days worth of mail and put it in one huge pile. It would be like a f*%$#@! mountian.

[FantasticBabblings]

I think it should be a crime.

[FabioCrow07770]

"Dear harry and David...Go fuck yourselves* lol

[FantasticBabblings]

And record it and put it on Xtube.

[thizizliz]

Excellent rant! Well said. Crate & Barrel will respond to a call to remove you; just know that any purchase restarts it. Silly wasteful practice. I wish I knew of a way to stop the political snail mail spam. In my neighborhood there are throw away papers, ads and lots of trash thrown into our yard on a daily basis. Luckily our community recycles and so they go straight from the yard to the recycle bin without ever coming indoors.

[FantasticBabblings]

I have had a couple of them stopped, but the eventually start back. There should be a registry where you can sign up and have them all blocked. I signed up on a site that was supposed to do that a year ago. Didn't work.

[thizizliz]

Yes, I've signed up at those sites too. It's so much more than an annoyance - as you say, it's a blight upon the planet and for no one's benefit. I make a point of not ordering from anyone who annoys me with paper. Except for Crate & Barrel because that's where my daughter's wish lists always are! :) Perhaps we need to write to them and mention that.....

[trboh]

I try to take advantage of online billing whenever possible to reduce all the "paper". The catalogs are really going to pick up now for Christmas. I do my best to intercept all the catalogs and get them in the trash before my wife sees them an gets any ideas.

[FantasticBabblings]

That's another thing. I don't look at them because I am afraid I'll be tempted :)

[GeeKayKayGee]

Yup, gotta hate that junk mail along with clam shell packaging, excess packaging and on and on.

Candidates buying elections, here's a thought (yes I know a very imperfect thought but...) how about candidates can solicit to fund their campaign but all the money the get goes into a common pot that both candidates draw from. Mr. A puts in a million, Mr. B puts in 2 million. Mr.A can spend 1.5 mil and Mr.B can spend 1.5 mil. Open up political office to the poor.

[FantasticBabblings]

Mr. Bloomberg can spend 1.5 million on lunch.

[OneoftheImmortals]

You do know it's all my family's fault; before Lillian Vernon . . . there was only Sears Roebuck.

Everyone wants to be Lillian.

[FantasticBabblings]

Do not put me on that mailing list, or you'll come face to face with a yellow formica table (arcane reference alert).

[nadiaTeeze]

Our local paper comes in my mailbox.. never asked for it.. A month ago they did an editors article on how people in my county don't recycle as much as the national average... They are part of the problem.. gotta love hypocrites

[FantasticBabblings]

New York city requires recycling but cannot keep up, so some of the paper they make you separate and put in the bins goes in the landfill anyway.

[lucydr62]

Direct mail is USPS biggest customer. I also pay most of my bills online too.

[FantasticBabblings]

I certainly believe they are the biggest customer as that is about the only snail mail I get.