Show HN: my friday night project - F Junk Mail

I despise junk mail and last night I decided to surrender to my emotions. I built an emotional app that retaliates against junk mail. It is a usable experiment in appealing to people's emotions and using an API for real world interaction.<p>Introducting F Junk Mail! - <a href="http://fjunkmail.com/" rel="nofollow">http://fjunkmail.com/</a>. It sends real world postcards to junk mail senders. Currently, it has Charter listed. More companies/addresses are on the way, but you can also enter your own address in.

I think this is a fabulous idea. Can you do me a favor? Can you make it so that I can enter my name and address and then it will send a postcard to my choice of 'congressional representative (state or federal)', senate representative (state or federal), governor or president ? My experience is that getting paper mail from people is more effective at communicating than email, and knowing that someone paid $2 to send this comment is a clear sign to a representative that the person really really means it. I would love you long time if you could do that.

How about just registering at dmachoice.org or similar? Would save some energy and recycled paper cycles...

I really like the site - good job! I think the cover page example should be related to a Nigerian bank scam though - everyone recognizes those "A prince passed away, you are 20th in line...collect your millions!" and I think it'd be a lot funnier/relatable than Charter :)

Or you can use <a href="https://www.paperkarma.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.paperkarma.com/</a> which is less passive-aggressive and more free.

So I just received my Saturday mail. Of the 3 items, 2 were junk mail.<p><a href="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/190299/junk-mail.JPG" rel="nofollow">https://dl.dropbox.com/u/190299/junk-mail.JPG</a><p>One is direct tv with a low trick of a $200 'prepaid card'. This is why I really like companies like <a href="http://simple.com" rel="nofollow">http://simple.com</a>. If you guys haven't signed up for simple definitely do. I've been really impressed.<p>Anyways, I think I will add direct tv on my list next for F Junk Mail.

Really nice idea, nice work man. There's just one thing though that worries me unless I misunderstand how it's all setup. But I noticed your popup where you enter credit card details is being displayed on a non-https encrypted page. Are credit card details safe to enter, are they encrypted in any way? I could be wrong and you could be using something like Stripe or a 3rd party payment API, I wanted to enter my credit card details to test it all out but was worried.

Interesting idea. Out of curiosity - are you printing and mailing all these by hand or is there some cunning automation there?

"I think this is a fair price for the joy of retaliating against junk mail. Plus, it costs me time and money to deliver these postcards."<p>What work is on your end? It appears that Sincerely prints/ships it, and the $2 charge is to pay for that.

fire with fire? i like the post card art! two criticisms; the whole idea is a bit hypocritical (sending more spam) and doesn't address the underlying issue of spam mail. Have a place to sign up for a "do not spam" list on your website and give users the option to "F JUNK MAIL" for $2.00. Also, I think you should make the price $1 because sending a post card has a known price and it's quite easy to do so offline. Why should they use your service and pay more?

Retaliate is misspelt in the subheader.

lots more of these sites can pop up with <a href="https://github.com/niftylettuce/node-sincerely" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/niftylettuce/node-sincerely</a>