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the fcc should not have put robocall abatement policies on hold for 4 years. for me, that ruined voice calls.

• yamtaddle 3y ago
  Can we talk about junk mail, while we're at it? I back-of-the-enveloped the numbers once, and we'd need a $5-10/month tax (or service fee or however they want to frame it) to pay the postal service what it gets from bulk mailing, per household—and probably on the lower end of that, because there'd be some savings from not processing all that bulk mail anymore. Easily worth it IMO. Throwing away literally 95%, by weight, of the mail I receive is tedious and wasteful. I think the "tax" it imposes on time and attention is well in excess of $5/month, even for low earners, and losing one piece of actually-important mail in the mess can far outstrip the annual cost of such hypothetical payments.
  • jerrysievert 3y ago
    while I agree that junk mail is an issue, there are some differences. 1. junk mail is sent either to a recipient or an address, the mailer is paying some fee for it. 2. while it is a nuisance, they aren't going out of their way to hide who sent it or breaking a bunch of laws and contracts in order to send it. 3. we don't have government agencies ignoring or trying to stop the implementation of laws that pertain to junk mail, we'd need to get laws passed to stop it before that could occur. so, yeah, horrific waste, but not the same.
    • yamtaddle 3y ago
      > they aren't going out of their way to hide who sent it I see an awful lot of bulk mail that's trying really hard to look like something it's not. Some of it's so bad that I'm surprised it doesn't fall afoul of various laws (and maybe it does, but enforcement is so poor that it's still profitable to do it).