How To Have Fun With Mailorder And Maybe Make Some Money

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First off, you can have a lot of fun with mail order even if
you don't make a lot of money. It is something that can be done
at home, by anyone regardless of their physical condition as
long as they can read and write. I don't mean that you have to
be an intellectual. Most of mail order is conducted in simple
easy to understand language.

Let's take the example of a bed ridden person, still at home
with his or her family. This example has very little money to
spend, is bored to tears with television, either does not want
to or cannot read novels or non-fiction.

...Or, it could be the person taking care of an invalid who
cannot leave the house just anytime they want to and who also is
not loaded with cash to spare..

...Or it could be the housewife with little kids who needs an
interest in life.

...Or it could be the retired person with too much time on
his or her hands.

...Or it could be the shy bashful person who has difficulty
in dealing with people face to face.

...Or it could be the physically repulsive person, or
handicapped person who dreads facing the public.

The one thing you can do is make your daily mail an event to
look forward to. You can do this cheaply.

One way is to just order something by mail. In your newspaper,
usually on Sunday there are often inserts from companies like
Sunset House, Walter Drake Co. etc. that offer inexpensive
items. Order something from them even if it barely meets their
minimum order.

These companies eventually sell their Address Lists to other
companies and you will start receiving catalogs and offers. I
ordered some inexpensive address labels in September. It is
November now and so far I have received catalogs for clothing,
cheese, fruit cakes, five mail order houses like Walter Drake
Co., office supplies, and several others.

Place magazine subscriptions, as many as you can afford and for
things that interest you. They too sell their subscription
lists.

Just these two things will get you pounds and pounds of what
some people call junk mail and what I call fun mail. You don't
have to order any of the things you get offers for. Just when
your fun mail slows down, order something cheap or place
another magazine subscription and your fun mail will speed up
again.

There is another way to make your mailbox more interesting.
There are thousands of mail order dealers who publish
newsletters or small ad sheets and sell information by mail.
Many of them offer classified ads for anywhere from 5 cents to
10 cents a word. Many of them offer to publish your camera
ready ad 1 inch size for $1.00. Placing an ad in any one of
them will flood your mailbox with mail. Some of them have a
"BIG MAIL WANTED" column. For $1.00 or $2.00 they will list
your name and address as a "BIG MAIL WANTED". The flood of mail
will become a torrent.

Most of this mail will be offers of ways to make money, and
copies of other newsletters and ad sheets sent in the hope that
you will place an ad in their publication too. You do not have
to respond to any of this flood of offers. Once again for a
$1.00 bill and a postage stamp, you have increased your daily
mail ten fold or more. Later we will discuss how you can use
this flood of mail to make money yourself. Right now we are
just discussing the FUN of mail order.

Once again, when the flood slows down, palace an ad in any of
the sample copies of newsletters or ad sheets and the flood will
start up again.

For the purpose of fun mail it does not matter what your ad is
trying to sell. Your intent is just to get on people's mailing
lists so that your daily mail is the receipt of something
besides bills from creditors.

Following is some sample ads you might place that do not
require you to send them anything back.

BIG MAIL WANTED. Send me your best offers. (your name and
address)

Opportunities Wanted! All offers welcome. (your name and
address)

Following are three people who will run your ad for only $1.00:

B.L. Cooper, 2150 So. 1st St. #92, San Jose, CA 95112.
Elizabeth Lowery, P.O. Box 481, Soddy Daisy, TN 37379. Roy &
Ruth Schultz, 13901 S.E. Bush,, Portland, OR 97236-2941.

It takes a while for the flood of mail to start but when it
does you are going to receive so many offers of ways to make
money that your head will spin. You never have to respond to any
of these offers. If your purpose is just to have fun mail, the
only thing you ever need to do is:

Order something by mail like a magazine subscription or from
anyone's mail order catalog

Place another $1.00 ad in someone's newsletter or ad sheet.