There is something in my mailbox almost everyday. Most often it is a stack of advertisements. They come in many sizes shapes and colors and I have no use for any of them. There is a trash can by the mailboxes and sometimes I just throw the advertisements in there. I started to recycle them now.
I don't think of it as junk mail but more as trash mail. It is mail that goes straight to the trash. I think it should be illegal for people to send me trash through the mail. I'm afraid that my real mail might get lost in it. But I realize that if the Post Office didn't deliver all those adds they would probably go out of business.
Pedal for a Purpose Day 1
10 years ago
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ForestEthics has a petition calling for a Do Not Mail Registry at donotmail.org, and their campaign calls on the Postal Service to reorient its business toward providing the service that it's customers actually want.
The USPS has a business model based around filling our mailboxes with waste. According to their own statistics, 30% of all the mail delivered in the world(!) is US junk mail. Why are we receiving nearly a third of the world's mail when we don't it and never asked for it?
We need to government services that make sense. Currently, the business model of the USPS makes none. And it isn't even keeping them in the black.
Sign the petition at donotmail.org!
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