Direct Mail companies I
have worked for in the past who would send out millions of pieces a year
would never pay even $1 per piece for someone to process their direct mail
campaigns. No one could pay that much to stuff envelopes. Direct Mail
campaigns that produced a profit of $30,000 would have quickly shrunk to
$0. For a 100,000 piece direct mail campaign they would have to spend
$100,000 for people to stuff the envelopes then another $150,000 for the
postage/sales materials/envelopes costing them a total of $250,000.
Meanwhile using automated systems for there direct mail campaigns, that
same campaign would cost roughly $152,000. If you where the company that
was paying for the direct mail piece which would you prefer to spend
$250,000 or $152,000? Plus with automated systems you don't have to worry
about any unreliable mail stuffers who never complete their work.
As the Direct Mail company
you have a choice of faster, cheaper, and better or more expensive, having
to recruit people to stuff mail, hoping your mail stuffers are reliable
and human error. Which one would you choose?
Let me explain how every every envelope
stuffing "opportunity" works. You see an ad that states they will pay you
$1 for every envelope that you stuff (payment ranges anywhere from $.50 to
$5 per stuffed envelope). You pay between $29.95 to $39.95 for a start up
kit, training manual, membership fee or whatever they decide to call it.
Your "Start Up Kit" arrives a few days later which is actually a very thin
envelope. You open the envelope you received and it outlines how you are
to take out ads (just like the one you saw) and get other people to send
in $1 for information. When the $1 arrives you mail out the info and
receive a commission off of the $29.95 to $39.95 for the "Start Up Kit"
that a hopeful prospective "Mail Stuffer" sent in. Sounds like a great
idea to make extra money stuffing envelopes until you realized what
happened, SCAM!!!!
You (including myself) fell for one of the
oldest scams in the book; Envelope Stuffing. There is one major problem
with envelope stuffing, it doesn't work . A few years ago you would be
able to get a few people to mail you a $1 for information regarding mail
stuffing opportunities. But nowadays people won't spend a single cent for
information. The internet is filled with completely free sales literature.
The bottom line is that envelop stuffing is a
complete scam.
