I picked up my mail the other day and it was just all shit ads. Just 100% garbage paper shipped around the country. Then I thought about how people are complaining the Post Office isn't making enough money to be self sufficient. Makes sense. Post Office workers are paid money to shove trash in a box for me to come move to the garbage can. Currently it's "too expensive" to ship trash to our mail boxes. The solution is the post office needs to send us more trash so they can get better equipment and staff to support the increasing cost of shipping trash to metal boxes that then get moved to trash cans.
It's insanity why are we moving trash around, why am I getting trash delivered to me. Why can't we just send each other love letters and seasons greetings. Nope gotta get a plastic sheet with the latest version of SUV #6, debt consolidation services, and tons of brilliantly financially engineered products to get more debt, or a fuckin bill. Why does the post office need to operate at the mercy of marketing - top 10 most damaging corp jobs.
It goes into detail about some individual junk mail companies later in the guide (Valpak was the one I needed) and returning to sender and whatnot, but just doing the DMAchoice opt-out and the credit/insurance offer opt-out nearly eliminated the junk mail I get. All the other stuff is for cleaning up the few stragglers that remain.
I picked up my mail the other day and it was just all shit ads. Just 100% garbage paper shipped around the country. Then I thought about how people are complaining the Post Office isn't making enough money to be self sufficient. Makes sense. Post Office workers are paid money to shove trash in a box for me to come move to the garbage can. Currently it's "too expensive" to ship trash to our mail boxes. The solution is the post office needs to send us more trash so they can get better equipment and staff to support the increasing cost of shipping trash to metal boxes that then get moved to trash cans.
It's insanity why are we moving trash around, why am I getting trash delivered to me. Why can't we just send each other love letters and seasons greetings. Nope gotta get a plastic sheet with the latest version of SUV #6, debt consolidation services, and tons of brilliantly financially engineered products to get more debt, or a fuckin bill. Why does the post office need to operate at the mercy of marketing - top 10 most damaging corp jobs.
This isn't a societal-level solution, but if you want to greatly reduce the amount of junk mail you get I can personally recommend this guide:
https://ecocycle.org/eco-living/refuse-and-reduce/stop-junk-mail/
It goes into detail about some individual junk mail companies later in the guide (Valpak was the one I needed) and returning to sender and whatnot, but just doing the DMAchoice opt-out and the credit/insurance offer opt-out nearly eliminated the junk mail I get. All the other stuff is for cleaning up the few stragglers that remain.
I came here to rant not for solutions
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Thanks if this gets rid of any of the spam it's a great way to free a couple bucks