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Well yea I’m not not criticizing those models either, but since the OP was about the USPS I was mainly commenting on that. I wish I could just turn off the spam

Well yea I’m not not criticizing those models either, but since the OP was about the USPS I was mainly commenting on that. I wish I could just turn off the spam deliveries. I don’t care if the USPS makes money or not or paying taxes for it or whatever - just let me out of receiving any spam whatsoever.

dc396 5y ago
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail
- ericmay 5y ago
  Thanks. I wish it was actually enforced. Previously signed up and have reported offenders and no change. It relies on processing a paper form (who knows if that actually occurs) and only reduces spam mail if the offender is registered on DMAChoice (and why am I paying $2 for this anyway?) and wants to comply. There's no real mechanism to opt-out of spam mail because that's one of the ways that the USPS makes money, so there's no real incentive to stop. Can't teach a person something that their job depends on them not knowing about, etc. etc. Right now actually the thing you should know is that no matter how official a piece of mail looks if it says something like PRSRT or Presort Standard you can immediately dump it in the trash. Though sometimes I like to open these to see if there is a prepaid business reply envelope which I'll just send back empty with no return address to inflict a postage stamp cost on whoever sent it to me. Though of course most companies have stopped including those because people were doing what I do. Similar to what I think we should do with phone calls and email, we should require nationwide opt-in and whitelisting. Nobody can send you mail without your consent. Nobody can send you an email or call you or text you without you adding their number to your whitelist. Etc.

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Well yea I’m not not criticizing those models either, but since the OP was about the USPS I was mainly commenting on that. I wish I could just turn off the spam

by ericmay 5y ago

dc396 5y ago
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/how-stop-junk-mail
- ericmay 5y ago
  Thanks. I wish it was actually enforced. Previously signed up and have reported offenders and no change. It relies on processing a paper form (who knows if that actually occurs) and only reduces spam mail if the offender is registered on DMAChoice (and why am I paying $2 for this anyway?) and wants to comply. There's no real mechanism to opt-out of spam mail because that's one of the ways that the USPS makes money, so there's no real incentive to stop. Can't teach a person something that their job depends on them not knowing about, etc. etc. Right now actually the thing you should know is that no matter how official a piece of mail looks if it says something like PRSRT or Presort Standard you can immediately dump it in the trash. Though sometimes I like to open these to see if there is a prepaid business reply envelope which I'll just send back empty with no return address to inflict a postage stamp cost on whoever sent it to me. Though of course most companies have stopped including those because people were doing what I do. Similar to what I think we should do with phone calls and email, we should require nationwide opt-in and whitelisting. Nobody can send you mail without your consent. Nobody can send you an email or call you or text you without you adding their number to your whitelist. Etc.