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"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
by 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 agoNot entirely, just the part that refuses to fund the USPS directly.
- SilverRed 5y agoI'm not trying to say otherwise. I'm more pointing out that solving this problem will be hard because a lot of people depend on creating the problem.