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But think of all the jobs and money involved in moving those trees.
by SilverRed 5y ago
But think of all the jobs and money involved in moving those trees.
- maxwell 5y agoHow does the energy usage compare to digital advertising and cloud computing?
- Ekaros 5y agoOne starts to wonder should we just make advertising illegal. As it seems, it is waste in both paper form and as online adds with all the tracking involved...
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agowhat's the line between advertising and protected speech? trick question: there is no line.
- maxwell 5y agoBillboards aren't banned in your state? https://movia.media/moving-billboard-blog/why-is-billboard-advertising-not-allowed-in-maine-vermont-hawaii-and-alaska https://movia.media/moving-billboard-blog/why-is-billboard-a...
- sio8ohPi 5y agoThe supreme court, unanimously, in Rowan v United States Post Office Department, "categorically reject[ed] the argument that a vendor has a right under the Constitution or otherwise to send unwanted material into the home of another."
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago"Consequently, a mailer’s right to communicate ceased at the mailbox of an unwilling addressee." I would be very suprised if SCOTUS would agree this ruling supports any legislative attempt to preemptively block "communication".
- TchoBeer 5y ago"jobs" and "money" don't do anything for society. Junk mail is a drain on resources that doesn't produce anything useful. If the problem is that too many people are unemployed and there aren't enough jobs to go around, that shouldn't be an excuse to not put an end to an incredibly wasteful and annoying practice.
- pavel_lishin 5y agoI think SilverRed was being sarcastic.
- TchoBeer 5y agoOops.
- CamelCaseName 5y agoJunk mail is "useful" because it distributes information. It's much less effective than, say, books, because there's a lot of overhead and waste in sending junk mail to people who don't care for them. Beyond that, it also subsidizes other mail deliveries. If mail wasn't being delivered to every address, having someone drop off a parcel just for you would be much more expensive.
- msla 5y ago> Beyond that, it also subsidizes other mail deliveries. If mail wasn't being delivered to every address, having someone drop off a parcel just for you would be much more expensive. This is a political decision which indicts the political regime the USPS operates under.
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y agoDo you mean the American political system in general?
- msla 5y ago