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> It's a fucking nuisance It's also a monumental waste of resources: process trees for paper, process inks, print the spam, ship spam to distribution center, s
by dingus 7y ago
> It's a fucking nuisance
It's also a monumental waste of resources: process trees for paper, process inks, print the spam, ship spam to distribution center, ship spam to local dispatch, drive spam to mailbox, recipient puts spam directly into trash, garbage collector drives to collect spam, dump spam into a hole in the ground, bury the spam.
While I'm sure it's inaccurate, that's about the gist of it, isn't it? You can substitute trash for recycling to get an equally pointless loop of wasting resources.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> While I'm sure it's inaccurate, that's about the gist of it, isn't it? You forgot the waste of electricity and people-hours that is designing the spam. Otherwise, that's about it for the primary waste. There undoubtedly are second-order effects as well. What's worst, this waste is practically unbounded. The answer to your competitor acquiring customers through sending out spam is to send out even more spam.
- yonaguska 7y agoIt's incredibly wasteful, especially when you realize how much mail doesn't get to you. I cleaned post offices in the past and the sorters were throwing away tons of mail that was being sent to old occupants. Fortunately, it was easy to recycle.