I tend to agree, it is a net negative for me too. My weekly tour of the mail room is to discard junk mail that I ceaselessly try to opt out of. When I asked for

I tend to agree, it is a net negative for me too. My weekly tour of the mail room is to discard junk mail that I ceaselessly try to opt out of. When I asked for them to stop delivering the magazine subscriptions of a previous tenant addressed to "or Current Resident", they told me they are not allowed to do so. Once I chose to send a package through them, and I watched the tracking as the package rerouted to their lost mail center in Atlanta ("Mail Recovery Center", a misnomer if there ever was one). How could it be lost if they were still updating the tracking information? (Naturally, it was never "found".) I briefly forwarded my mail to a relative's address while I was out of the country for an extended period, and they sold that to numerous institutions without my permission, creating a headache to unwind. To this day knowledge-based authentication systems quiz me about an address I never lived at. I don't get a warm and fuzzy patriotic feeling from having a national postal service. If anything it feels like an anachronism. Paper mail has been virtually irrelevant to me my entire life.