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maybe you should instead fuck your legislators so they can make that practice illegal (getting adverts per mail without consent). Where I live it's opt out, so

maybe you should instead fuck your legislators so they can make that practice illegal (getting adverts per mail without consent). Where I live it's opt out, so not ideal either but at least I don't have to put up with the trash after adding a sticker to my post box.

pc86 3y ago
You clearly haven't seen my legislators.
lupire 3y ago
Why not both? USPS is most prolific and polluting spam purveyor in the world.
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  Yeah one of the biggest (if not the biggest) sources of paper that I throw away is junk mail. I throw away bags of it every month, 98% of it unopened. The environmental impact of the paper, the printing, the fuel burned to deliver it, must dwarf the impact of the single-use plastic bags I get at the supermarket.
  - gosub100 3y ago
    They get to send each house 30 lbs of crap per year at tremendous discount, but if you want to send a Christmas card to Grandma, you have to pay full price.
    - lupire 3y ago
      That's not true at all. It's class mail is delivered at extreme discount, subsidized by spam.
  - Forbo 3y ago
    I wish they would ban mixed media envelopes. So sick of ripping off the plastic windows on junk mail so I can recycle it, it's a such a waste of time and resources.
- master-lincoln 3y ago
  because you don't shoot the messenger... I don't think it should be the task of the mail delivery service to decide what you should receive
  - aendruk 3y ago
    Sadly USPS is frequently the perpetrator. https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm I’ve tried every opt-out I can find and it still doesn’t stop.
    - gosub100 3y ago
      It's been 20 years now, but I tried opting out of a prolific grocery coupon mass mailer. But the carrier was so used to everyone getting them that I just got the ones addressed to my neighbor.
- gosub100 3y ago
  What I despise is the old marketing materials that portrayed the letter carriers as American heroes because they deliver stuff. Yet the vast majority of what they deliver is ads.

pc86 3y ago

You clearly haven't seen my legislators.

lupire 3y ago

Why not both? USPS is most prolific and polluting spam purveyor in the world.

SoftTalker 3y ago
Yeah one of the biggest (if not the biggest) sources of paper that I throw away is junk mail. I throw away bags of it every month, 98% of it unopened. The environmental impact of the paper, the printing, the fuel burned to deliver it, must dwarf the impact of the single-use plastic bags I get at the supermarket.
- gosub100 3y ago
  They get to send each house 30 lbs of crap per year at tremendous discount, but if you want to send a Christmas card to Grandma, you have to pay full price.
  - lupire 3y ago
    That's not true at all. It's class mail is delivered at extreme discount, subsidized by spam.
- Forbo 3y ago
  I wish they would ban mixed media envelopes. So sick of ripping off the plastic windows on junk mail so I can recycle it, it's a such a waste of time and resources.
master-lincoln 3y ago
because you don't shoot the messenger... I don't think it should be the task of the mail delivery service to decide what you should receive
- aendruk 3y ago
  Sadly USPS is frequently the perpetrator. https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm I’ve tried every opt-out I can find and it still doesn’t stop.
  - gosub100 3y ago
    It's been 20 years now, but I tried opting out of a prolific grocery coupon mass mailer. But the carrier was so used to everyone getting them that I just got the ones addressed to my neighbor.
gosub100 3y ago
What I despise is the old marketing materials that portrayed the letter carriers as American heroes because they deliver stuff. Yet the vast majority of what they deliver is ads.