I have seen a lot on the internet about working from home stuffing envelopes.  This seems like an easy and a great opportunity.  Just sit around in your pyjamas watching TV and getting paid to stuff envelopes.  In fact the idea seems plausible as many advertising companies need a lot of envelopes stuffed so it would seem logical that such a business opportunity exists.

What you will find though is that whatever ad you are reading about this opportunity has a lot of hype.  What is worse is they will likely ask you for some sort of up front fee.  They will justify it by saying they need to weed out the time wasters and only want people who are really serious about the opportunity.  Or perhaps they will say something like they need the money for postage and packaging of the info pack with the instructions of how to get started in this “home business”.

If you do pay that fee because your curiousity is killing you, what you will likely get is a kit telling you how to promote the same business you just bought into.  It’s essentially another pyramid scheme where you earn commissions by “tricking” others into paying the same fee you did.  Where does the “envelope stuffing” come in you may ask ?  Well the company can easily justify it’s claim by saying you need to “stuff envelopes” with ads about the “envelope stuffing business” and then mail those out to as many people as possible in hopes of hooking someone else into the dodgy business opportunity.

Further, there are many machines that do this type of work much faster and cheaper than any human can do it.  I should know because I used to fix them.  Companies like Pitney Bowes and Francotyp Postalia make  folding and inserting machines that do this work.  So why would any company pay a human to do a job that they could get a machine to do ?

Further, there are many companies that specialize in these services that have these machines.  They can do the work very cheaply.  I am sure it works out to less than $5 per hour, so why would any company in their right mind pay a human big money to do this tedious task ?

The answer is obvious.  The ad you have read or stumbled upon is just another scheme trying to prey on the desperate and needy.  Unfortunately it works well, but hopefully you have stumbled upon my site before sending off for your “info pack”.

If you have any experiences with this type of scheme please post them below for others to learn from.