tracts of local origin

[Stacey Melissa]

A couple days ago, I received in the mail what I thought at first was a Chick tract. It was a tract, alright, but it was from a local non-profit, The Only Hope, Inc. (http://www.theonlyhope.com/) It was a mass-mailing type of thing, addressed to the "Resident" at my address. It was a least a little friendlier than the typical Chick tract, but I still find it rather annoying that there is a local publisher of this crap. I also find it annoying that I just moved into my own place a few months ago, and already I'm getting Jebus propaganda.

Is it a pretty normal occurence to get tracts or other religious mailers in your mailbox? Is it common to find local publishers of tract drivel?

[jafosei]

Personally, I've never gotten a tract in the mail. At least, not that I've noticed; I filter my mail nearly automatically, and a lot of it goes into the recycling box without a really close inspection. I do get other religious stuff, leftovers from my time in the church.

The church I belonged to many years ago would occasionally try to "reach out to the community" by sticking flyers into the mailboxes of every house within walking distance. Normally these were "come to our special event"-type flyers, but I wouldn't be surprised if a local church did the same kind of thing with custom-printed tracts.

When I get annoying things in the mail, I like to save them and insert them into those return-postage-paid envelopes that a lot of junk mail contains these days. They mail me junk, I mail them back someone else's junk. It's the circle of life.

[Stacey Melissa]

The church I belonged to many years ago would occasionally try to "reach out to the community" by sticking flyers into the mailboxes of every house within walking distance. Normally these were "come to our special event"-type flyers, but I wouldn't be surprised if a local church did the same kind of thing with custom-printed tracts.
The group that sent the tract to me actually paid postage to have it delivered. Groups don't get to stuff things in my mailbox, since it is locked and only I and the postman have access. That's probably a good thing.


When I get annoying things in the mail, I like to save them and insert them into those return-postage-paid envelopes that a lot of junk mail contains these days. They mail me junk, I mail them back someone else's junk. It's the circle of life.
Interesting idea.

[Swishy McJackass]

Mailing crap back to the source of the crap is one of the few joys in life.

[GaryP]

I got a letter in the mail a couple of years ago from my local, most popular far-right church.

I sent a letter to the minister asking for them to take my address off thier mailing list and I supplied him with some atheist "evangelism". He wrote back and told me that they didn't mean to offend.

Haven't heard from them since.

[WhyBeNormal]

Besides the Bible Camp stuff we get every summer, ("de-sissify your homo boy!" *) the only jebus propaganda I get are some baptist tracts once a year. I was gonna send them some nontracts :sneaky: ( http://ffrf.org/nontracts/ )
but, I'm lazy :rolleyes:





* Just joking- not what they say ;)

[EverLastingGodStopper]

Many people have received the infamous St Matthew's "prayer rug" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=St+Matthew+prayer+rug&btnG=Google+Search). I rip up religious junk mail and return the pieces back to the sender with a note asking them to remove me from their lists.

Well, once I kept a mini-bible that was sent to me, it was too cute.

In my area, the local Jehova's Witnesses send out bulk postal mailings, and there is one evangelical church locally which used to send me stuff, but they stopped, probably because I returned their mailings as described above.

[wonkothesane]

{snip}When I get annoying things in the mail, I like to save them and insert them into those return-postage-paid envelopes that a lot of junk mail contains these days. They mail me junk, I mail them back someone else's junk. It's the circle of life.

I like to send them back filled with baking powder... ;)

(JUST KIDDING!!!)

- wonko

[wonkothesane]

I like to send them back filled with baking powder... ;)

(JUST KIDDING!!!)

- wonko

See...it's a "mysterious white powder"...anthrax, you see...oh, just nevermind...(*I* though that it was funny...but I guess nobody here did...I suppose that the Dept. of Homeland Security wouldn't either, huh...???)

- wonko

[EverLastingGodStopper]

Dude, don't make me lock this thread.

jk.

[Bright Life]

The church I belonged to many years ago would occasionally try to "reach out to the community" by sticking flyers into the mailboxes of every house within walking distance. Normally these were "come to our special event"-type flyers, but I wouldn't be surprised if a local church did the same kind of thing with custom-printed tracts.

FYI, this is illegal. If an organization is doing this and is caught by the postmaster, they can be fined in excess of the postage that would have been necessary to mail all of those flyers. Of course, a little birdie needs to tell the postmaster about these transgressions.

BL