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I wonder how much of that subsidy practically goes to spam.

• Alupis 6y ago
  I actually tried to stop the spam mail to my house. I took a mailbox full, just 2 days of mail, 99% spam, and took it into my local post office. Plopped the mail on the counter and told the clerk I no longer wanted to receive mail from any of these advertisers. Of course the clerk couldn't help me. USPS makes too much money delivering junk right to your mailbox. What a great system we're engineered here, where our national carrier service primarily slups junk mail around the country, and won't stop because it's one of their most profitable side-hustles.
  • Scoundreller 6y ago
    Seems like they could have been more helpful: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remove-name-from-mailing-lists https://faq.usps.com/s/article/Refuse-unwanted-mail-and-remo...
  • notJim 6y ago
    Why would you assume that a random clerk has the ability to opt you out of junk mail? If you want them to do that, you're going to have to lobby your representatives to ban them from doing so, and offer another source of revenue that makes the USPS sustainable. I agree that this would be a good thing, but you already see how politically difficult it is to keep the USPS running at all. Providing it more funding so it can stop relying on bulk mail seems basically impossible.
• missedthecue 6y ago
  52% of USPS volume is junk mail, while it only contributes to ~30% of revenue. So quite a lot.