Can You Really Earn Money Stuffing Envelopes?

You might be surprised to learn that many people feel this might be the ideal job to help them earn some extra cash at home. So it begs the question: can you really earn money stuffing envelopes?

I am sorry to disappoint many of you but, almost all envelope stuffing opportunities are an out and out scam. Many of them, if not most of them are nothing more than selling you an opportunity to join a pyramid scheme although of course, this won’t be immediately apparent.

The truth is, real envelope stuffing is fully automated and carried out by machines and the technology to do this has been around for years. Admittedly, before this technology was available it was done in a ‘factory production line’ type setting by manual workers, but those days are well and truly gone.

Earn money from stuffing envelopes? I don’t think so, these work at home opportunities are nothing more than a pyramid scheme which you can pay typically $30 to join and you will be sent some envelopes and instructed to place classified ads similar to the one that perhaps enticed you to look at an envelope stuffing job. To draw others in to the scheme, they will be encouraged to send a self-addressed, stamped envelope for more information. You send them a copy of the ad and then you have stuffed your envelope! If they sign up and pay $30 you might be sent $1 of their sign up fee, the operator of this ‘pyramid scam’ taking the rest. Also, it’s worth noting that your typical response rate to this kind of advertising will be around half a percent, so you will be lucky to get one person to sign up from 200 enquiries.

They make promises of earning $100’s perhaps even as much as $4 or $5 per envelope! What could possibly be worth paying somebody that much to process a single envelope manually? After all, a fully automated envelope stuffing machine can be bought for a few hundred dollars! No I’m afraid it really is a case of ‘if it sounds to good to be true, then it definitely is to good to be true‘.

Basically, you are doing all the advertising for the operator of this scheme and receiving a pittance for it (if you get sent anything at all). The operators of such schemes are the only ones making money for sure.

Other schemes might send you envelopes to stuff after you have paid your registration fee and require very precise and exacting standards that must be achieved to get paid. Chances are, they will find fault with your workmanship and you will be lucky to get paid at all.

Envelope stuffing schemes are not worth you time and money and you would be much better off investing your time and money in obtaining the knowledge and information you will need to start a legitimate home based business which is entirely possible if you look in the right place.

Author: Mark Graham - copyright 2007