# Frellin' Labels
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 20, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390 "2005-12-20T01:46:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/1 "2005-12-20T01:46:40Z")
I hereby _pit_ the frellin’ non-profits who have taken to sending me masses of heavy plastic mailing labels with my name and address on them. You morons! I do **not** want your labels! Sending them to me is **not** making points with me for your organization! You’re simply producing more non-recyclable junk that I have to laboriously shred so that someone doesn’t try to steal my identity.
And I’m not talking about the merely obnoxious junk mailers, folks, I’m talking about non-profits that I _used to_ respect. My pit list includes The Nature Conservancy, fer chrissakes!
TANJ! :smack:
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### Author:  [@lonesome\_loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lonesome_loser)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/2 "2005-12-20T03:02:06Z")
Throw them away.
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### Author:  [@633squadron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/633squadron)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/3 "2005-12-20T03:31:37Z")
> [@lonesome loser](#):
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> Throw them away.
Of course! But I have to shred them first. It’s a pain in the butt, but better than giving away my identity.
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/4 "2005-12-20T04:00:20Z")
> [@633squadron](#):
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> Of course! But I have to shred them first. It’s a pain in the butt, but better than giving away my identity.
Did they print your name, address, and SS# on these labels? I’d be pissed too!
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### Author:  [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/5 "2005-12-20T08:53:35Z")
It’s a plot by Scorpius. Just give him the wormhole technology and he’ll leave you alone.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/6 "2005-12-20T13:18:22Z")
> [@lonesome loser](#):
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> Throw them away.
Use them.
The more labels I get from them, the fewer I have to print.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/7 "2005-12-20T13:39:18Z")
Look, I work for a not-for-profit and I say use them! It’s a horrible horrible ploy and I agree, you should not only use them but call back and ask for more. I’m really not kidding here…the portion of our organization that does the telemarketing is mean and surly and gives the rest of us a bad name. And we get the labels dirt-cheap. So use away - if they start spending too much money maybe they’ll quit it!
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### Author:  [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/8 "2005-12-20T14:45:11Z")
And here I was pissed because we’ve used all of ours, and my Lady wife had to hand-write our address on all of our holiday correspondence.
Anybody know who I can hit up for some more?
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### Author:  [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/9 "2005-12-20T14:56:28Z")
> [@633squadron](#):
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> Of course! But I have to shred them first. It’s a pain in the butt, but better than giving away my identity.
Everything on an address label is readily available in the phone book. Quick - go shred that!
Susan
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frellin-labels/336390/10 "2005-12-21T04:52:07Z")
> [@susan\_foster](#):
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> Everything on an address label is readily available in the phone book. Quick - go shred that!
If there weren’t people who were concerned about showing up in the phone book, the phone companies wouldn’t offer unlisted numbers for a price…