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I can't think of too many things that would make me happier than the Post Office shutting down service. Dumping piles of junk in my mailbox 6 days/week? No th

I can't think of too many things that would make me happier than the Post Office shutting down service. Dumping piles of junk in my mailbox 6 days/week? No thanks. Oh how I loath going through piles of coupons and other physical spam to make sure I haven't missed some vital bill. Which, as an added benefit, would be delivered to me by a much more manageable method if the post office quit offering their service. Note: The Pony Express was pretty cool, though.

devicenull 14y ago
At least they put it in the mailbox. I wish the people that drop crappy "newspapers" on my doorstep would stop.
- dmiladinov 14y ago
  Unless it has paid postage on it, it's illegal to put it in the mailbox: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/83/1725 http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/83/1725
johnpowell 14y ago
So are you ditching your ISP since you get spam? About two years ago I had to send a iPod Touch from Portland, OR to Akron. I stopped by Fedex and they wanted 11 bucks to ship it. USPS was a block away and they did it for under 3 bucks. And it arrived in two days. Blame the people that sent you unwanted shit.
- kevingadd 14y ago
  The USPS are the people who send you unwanted shit. It's how they subsidize the cost of their service. They explicitly offer to third parties the ability to spam huge swathes of US taxpayers with unsolicited mail; this would NOT be possible without the USPS encouraging and enabling such behavior. See https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm for example.
- baddox 14y ago
  > So are you ditching your ISP since you get spam? I don't get spam in my inbox more than once every couple of months.
ChrisNorstrom 14y ago
Are you serious? Do you have any idea how much cheaper USPS is? Domestically AND internationally. How important it is to e-commerce? Online stores. Small businesses. My online store (http://www.dayonepp.com http://www.dayonepp.com) shameless plug. Do you realize that without it your ass would still be driving to Best Buy to pay for an overpriced TV? You'd have to pay $20 to mail your brother his PS2 that he forgot while visiting you. Without the postal service UPS and Fedex would probably do backdoor deals to inflate the cost of shipping since they wouldn't have to compete with the USPS. It's not even costing you anything other than throwing away junk mail. Recycle it. But don't wish death on something so important.
- learc83 14y ago
  >Do you realize that without it your ass would still be driving to Best Buy to pay for an overpriced TV? What? Since when does the USPS deliver TVs? >You'd have to pay $20 to mail your brother his PS2 that he forgot while visiting you. Going by the original PS2 dimensions (apparently 12"x7"x3") their respective rate calculators show that the price for shipping with about the same delivery time was ~$12 for the post office and ~$13 for UPS (from Atlanta to LA).

devicenull 14y ago

At least they put it in the mailbox. I wish the people that drop crappy "newspapers" on my doorstep would stop.

dmiladinov 14y ago
Unless it has paid postage on it, it's illegal to put it in the mailbox: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/83/1725 http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/83/1725

johnpowell 14y ago

So are you ditching your ISP since you get spam? About two years ago I had to send a iPod Touch from Portland, OR to Akron. I stopped by Fedex and they wanted 11 bucks to ship it. USPS was a block away and they did it for under 3 bucks. And it arrived in two days. Blame the people that sent you unwanted shit.

kevingadd 14y ago
The USPS are the people who send you unwanted shit. It's how they subsidize the cost of their service. They explicitly offer to third parties the ability to spam huge swathes of US taxpayers with unsolicited mail; this would NOT be possible without the USPS encouraging and enabling such behavior. See https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm for example.
baddox 14y ago
> So are you ditching your ISP since you get spam? I don't get spam in my inbox more than once every couple of months.

ChrisNorstrom 14y ago

Are you serious? Do you have any idea how much cheaper USPS is? Domestically AND internationally. How important it is to e-commerce? Online stores. Small businesses. My online store (http://www.dayonepp.com http://www.dayonepp.com) shameless plug. Do you realize that without it your ass would still be driving to Best Buy to pay for an overpriced TV? You'd have to pay $20 to mail your brother his PS2 that he forgot while visiting you. Without the postal service UPS and Fedex would probably do backdoor deals to inflate the cost of shipping since they wouldn't have to compete with the USPS. It's not even costing you anything other than throwing away junk mail. Recycle it. But don't wish death on something so important.

learc83 14y ago
>Do you realize that without it your ass would still be driving to Best Buy to pay for an overpriced TV? What? Since when does the USPS deliver TVs? >You'd have to pay $20 to mail your brother his PS2 that he forgot while visiting you. Going by the original PS2 dimensions (apparently 12"x7"x3") their respective rate calculators show that the price for shipping with about the same delivery time was ~$12 for the post office and ~$13 for UPS (from Atlanta to LA).