Return To Sender Campaign
14 years ago, a biblical video of the Life of Jesus was sent to over 450,000 residents in Palm Beach, FL. Problem: at the time, 255,000 residents were Jewish.
St. Petersburg Times
"... the mass mailing demonstrates the arrogance and
insensitivity of Christian evangelicals who, as Bishop O'Connell suggested,
believe that God is theirs and theirs alone, that only they will pass through
the pearly gate and sit on the right-hand side of St. Peter. The Rev. Harris
Campbell, a local preacher, exemplifies such intolerance.
Speaking to the Post about the mailing, he said: "We're doing this because
it's our fundamental belief that unless a person trusts in Christ, they will
not be saved."
The mailing cost $1.2-million, but South Florida fought back with thousands of "return-to-senders" flooding the post office. Some of them were attached to bricks in the hopes that the Jesus Video Project would have to pay additional shipping charges.
Perhaps we should organize against future mailings of The Great
Controversy!
In The End
The SDA mass mailing is only one of many proselytizing mailings that go out every year. In a great article - How To Stop The Charity Junk Mail Monster, Mary Hunt tackles those pesky "gift"-mail pleas for donations. It doesn't touch on the kind of proselytizing mail problem the SDA mailing presents, but it does focus on the sheer volume that religious/non-profit mailings burden us and the USPS with every day. Vast, unsolicited, blanket mailings are not only irritating, insulting (in some cases) and virtually fruitless, they are costing everyone else in postage rates and USPS services.
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