You cannot trust a business not to sell off a list of all the addresses they have OR to 'help out a friend' OR to start another business and use those addresses. A list of FFL holders would appeal to quite a number of vendors.
It happens all the time, your local phone company sells it's list of names and addresses on a regular basis, also your cable company, video store, department store, grocery store and others. There are some companies that seem to think that your buying from them also gives them some license to send you junk mail or spam.
I used to add a different suite number, apartment number, mail drop number or mail stop number etc . to my address. Then when the junk mail comes in I know who to shriek at.
That FFL list would be even sweeter as you can't tag the address to thwart the junk mailers.
For spam prevention I use disposable addresses for new companies and just wait for anything resembling spam to show up. If one does I put them in my blacklist, send them one email, delete the address and don't deal with them for a while. If they don't I then change my email with them to my 'buy online' one.
I don't any longer get as hot as I used to about junk mail. The sender had to waste money to do it and it almost totally funds a lot of rural post offices.
Spammers need to be drained penniless to the point of living in boxes and drinking cheap wine to kill the pain.
losangeles said:
I read in an informational site that vendors will find you when you get your C&R license and you will be come a "nightmare for your mailman".
Is this true? Is there a way to get a license and not get the junk mail?
