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This is one of my environmental bug-bears. How much non-recyclable, glossy paper is wasted on marketing bumf that gets distributed across a whole country only t
by ljm 5y ago
This is one of my environmental bug-bears. How much non-recyclable, glossy paper is wasted on marketing bumf that gets distributed across a whole country only to land directly into the trash, possibly landfill? Even if it was recyclable, it's still serves no functional purpose except to be disposed of.
In the UK politicians also send out these kinds of flyers in bulk (never mind the inundation of flyers for takeaway food, Domino's Pizza, Papa John's, etc.)
For any single piece of legitimate mail (which is vanishingly small as most stuff is paperless now), there are perhaps 20 or 30 pieces of junk that come with it over the course of a few weeks.
I honestly wish it got legislated against. Junk mailers aren't entitled to offload their waste through my letterbox. I don't understand why they have the right to shove advertisements into my own home.
- rolph 5y agoin my area, they [junkmailers] actually interfere with delivery of mail, as a postie is not allowed to put anything in a mailbox that cant be closed [for privacy/security] so when the junk carrier shoves it full, your real mail cant be delivered. [adndm] no posties cant [as in not allowed] remove anything, even if they just put it in there and realized its the wrong address
- xxpor 5y agoIn the US, no one except actual USPS mail carriers are allowed to deliver anything into a mailbox. Everyone except the tiniest operations take that pretty seriously, since the US postal inspectors (mail cops) are extremely serious.