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As someone else pointed out, the USPS has a monopoly on non-urgent mail. As for spam, you must be fortunate that you have not managed to wind up on spammers' l
by grandalf 15y ago
As someone else pointed out, the USPS has a monopoly on non-urgent mail.
As for spam, you must be fortunate that you have not managed to wind up on spammers' lists. If you donate to charity that's an easy way to get on the lists, and some of the spam is just unnecessary garbage sent by business I use b/c sending it to everyone (via the USPS) is cheaper than implementing an opt-out policy.
- SageRaven 15y agoI forget the URL, but I opted out of junk mail years ago via the Direct Marketers Association web page. I think that's the name. After a couple of months, my dead tree spam fell to a trickle. It's not perfect. I still get local grocery and retail circulars that I could do without. But at least the daily credit card offers stopped, which cut down the volume dramatically. If someone would drop a bomb on Geico's direct marketing arm, I'd be a happy camper.
- grandalf 15y agoI did this too, as well as a couple of extra precautions, and I did not notice any decline in the junk mail at all.