I found a small trick that much of the most junky mail doesn't get delivered to business addresses, and so I forwarded all my mail to my business address. This

I found a small trick that much of the most junky mail doesn't get delivered to business addresses, and so I forwarded all my mail to my business address. This worked for a little while, and greatly reduced the amount of junk mail I received. But the US post office only lets you forward for a limited amount of time (or makes you pay a ridiculously high price to keep doing it). At that point, I just took down my mailbox and changed my address on all my bills and such to my work address. This lead to the USPS reporting to HUD that my house was abandoned. That got forwarded to the bank that holds my mortgage, who freaked out. I got them calmed down, but then went through a period of having to explain to quite a few people why I don't have a mailbox. I got accused of being selfish and of being a luddite. I got told it was illegal. I basically was shamed about it endlessly. After ten years, I finally just put a mailbox back up at my house because my son, who just turned eighteen and was applying for credit cards and such, ran into issues where he couldn't receive them because he had no residential mailbox and the banks told him "tough luck".