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Keyword there is "snail mail." You're saying you really want this stuff in your mailbox every week? I don't want any snail mail(of any kind), any week but it'

Keyword there is "snail mail." You're saying you really want this stuff in your mailbox every week? I don't want any snail mail(of any kind), any week but it's something I still have to live with.

tomp 12y ago
In contrast, I've been refusing to opt-in to my banks online statements for a long time now, simply because I want to have important stuff (e.g. my money) printed black-on-white. Email can be easily faked.
- sejje 12y ago
  Would it not be easy to print a fake? I don't really understand why "can be easily faked" is how you're justifying this.
  - tomp 12y ago
    That's right... I will need to check if there are any hard-to-fake signs on my bank statements (e.g. company stamps/special kind of paper/watermarks).
  - mynameisvlad 12y ago
    Some banks do have custom security envelopes with their company's name on the inside, although they'd also be easy to fake.
  - unprepare 12y ago
    It is less likely that someone would send a falsified bank document through the mail, as mail fraud is a federal crime with harsher sentences than most online versions of spam/phishing. Also records are kept for mail regarding where it was received by the post office (which likely has security cameras), when, who is on the return address and the recipient. There is physical evidence of who has touched a piece of mail such as fingerprints, hair, DNA etc. This is part of why you don't get 50 letters from nigerian princes each day
mynameisvlad 12y ago
Yes, is it really that hard to take 5 seconds out of your day and check snail mail? I get that people don't like it, but let's be real, it's not that big of an inconvenience.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago
  Well, if this is opt-in mail, it's all cool. Where I live I, along with all my neighbours, have something like half a kilogram of spam mail weekly, all of it (except maybe first flyer from a newly-opened pizza place) goes straight to thrash. Scale this up to 1-million city or 30-million country and think of all this wasted paper, paint, electricity, fuel and labour.
  - blumkvist 12y ago
    They are obviously generating revenue, if they keep sending mail.
    - TeMPOraL 12y ago
      Now are they? I sometimes wonder about leaflets (and some form of Internet marketing) that maybe it doesn't really work, but it's so hard to tell that they just keep throwing money at it because everyone else does.

Keyword there is "snail mail." You're saying you really want this stuff in your mailbox every week? I don't want any snail mail(of any kind), any week but it's something I still have to live with.

tomp 12y ago

In contrast, I've been refusing to opt-in to my banks online statements for a long time now, simply because I want to have important stuff (e.g. my money) printed black-on-white. Email can be easily faked.

sejje 12y ago
Would it not be easy to print a fake? I don't really understand why "can be easily faked" is how you're justifying this.
- tomp 12y ago
  That's right... I will need to check if there are any hard-to-fake signs on my bank statements (e.g. company stamps/special kind of paper/watermarks).
- mynameisvlad 12y ago
  Some banks do have custom security envelopes with their company's name on the inside, although they'd also be easy to fake.
- unprepare 12y ago
  It is less likely that someone would send a falsified bank document through the mail, as mail fraud is a federal crime with harsher sentences than most online versions of spam/phishing. Also records are kept for mail regarding where it was received by the post office (which likely has security cameras), when, who is on the return address and the recipient. There is physical evidence of who has touched a piece of mail such as fingerprints, hair, DNA etc. This is part of why you don't get 50 letters from nigerian princes each day

mynameisvlad 12y ago

Yes, is it really that hard to take 5 seconds out of your day and check snail mail? I get that people don't like it, but let's be real, it's not that big of an inconvenience.

TeMPOraL 12y ago
Well, if this is opt-in mail, it's all cool. Where I live I, along with all my neighbours, have something like half a kilogram of spam mail weekly, all of it (except maybe first flyer from a newly-opened pizza place) goes straight to thrash. Scale this up to 1-million city or 30-million country and think of all this wasted paper, paint, electricity, fuel and labour.
- blumkvist 12y ago
  They are obviously generating revenue, if they keep sending mail.
  - TeMPOraL 12y ago
    Now are they? I sometimes wonder about leaflets (and some form of Internet marketing) that maybe it doesn't really work, but it's so hard to tell that they just keep throwing money at it because everyone else does.