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It's the same damn crap here in Australia and it's making me furious. It's stupid that there's more sensitivity on the online spam issue than the physical spam
by borplk 14y ago
It's the same damn crap here in Australia and it's making me furious.
It's stupid that there's more sensitivity on the online spam issue than the physical spam.
The mail box is a part of my property, why aren't I entitled to choosing who can use it and who can't?
It's not legal to just dump a bunch of ads on someone's lawn every day, why is it legal to dump it in their mailbox?
Just imagine the waste. I get ads that are not even remotely relevant to me. Really weird specific stuff that you'd think that maybe 1 out of every 500 person would be interested in.
Here's an idea,
Build a customer base of people with their interests, then print a custom catalog with deals and ads and everything specifically for their interests and send it to them. So my neighbour gets sweet fishing deals and I get the nerdy deals and my wife gets the clothing ads.
Conversions will be a lot higher.
- joshAg 14y agodoes australia not have "return to sender"? That seems to work well for the little amount of junk mail that I get.
- borplk 14y agoHow does that work? As in, you return it to the sender, as a request for unsubscribing? If that's the case I don't think it would work because the postman doesn't care which box he's dumping the ads in.
- joshAg 14y agoyou write "Return to Sender" on the outside of the envelope and stick it back in the mailbox (really). or, if you live in a complex with a separate outgoing mailbox, then put it there.
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- DanBC 14y agoSome junk mail (in the UK) is addressed to a real person at a real address. Some is addressed to "The Occupier". Some is just unaddressed leaflets. You can opt out (over here) but it's not as easy as it could be. Keeping a recycling bin by the door relieves some guilt I feel about trashing so much stuff. I wish they'd use more eco-friendly paper - recycled, not glossy, better inks, etc. There have been people who've collected all their junk mail over a year. Perhaps we need to see the results for some streets to be shocked at the sheer quantity. Or maybe some international comparisons?
- chris_wot 14y agoBecause that would be a pretty severe violation of my privacy. I really don't want some big company advertising something to me that I might not want. Lets say I'm a smoker, I don't want them advertising it to me because cigarettes will kill me. Or let's say I like some weird sort of porn, I don't want them sending me that literature in case it gets opened by someone else in my family. I note this is the Facebook model of advertising. I find it intrusive. I also worry that organisations will use their data irresponsibly. Not all uses of information are to your benefit.