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Married2Allis

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Getting tired of this. Opening the mailbox every day and dragging out a dozen catalogs, flyers, and other crap they call mail. It's been crazy for the last month. I'd like to save all of it, tear-off my address and dump a year's worth at the front door of the post office where it comes from!
 
Like you, I wish junk mail would go away, not just during the holidays but year-around. Show some mercy for the trees that had to die to help me fill my recycling bin! (But it's not the post office's fault. As long as the sender pays the postage, the PO has an obligation to deliver it.)
 
I do not like this junk mail either, whether it be in the form of unrequested catalogs or political mail. Yet, if the P O did not have the 3rd class commercial mail, it wouod be broke or a letter going across the nation would cost 20 bucks. So I just put up with it and thank the Lord my friends have jobs
 
if you have time, take all the offers and send them to each other, in other words take k marts's stuff and send it to the lows offer you got,or sent home depot the free pizza offers most times they have a free mail in offer, that way they pay postage both ways and dont sell anything
 
Paper companies grow trees for paper, just like farmers grow corn soybeans hay wheat etc. If they did not, we would be in a paperless society before long. just sayin gobble
 
First off its not the PO fault they are just doing there job. Second there is a junk mail thing you can go on (similar to do not call) and will cut a lot of it down. I am getting very little junk mail now a days. If you do business with a company they will send a catalog. Last much of it you can tell the post man to return to sender.
 
Take a minute to think about it and really, what difference does it make to you?

You are not paying to print it.
You are not paying to have it delivered.

The sum total of your involvement in the whole thing is carrying it from the mailbox to the house. You know what it is without even looking at it so you don't have to waste that effort.

They're the fools that wasted their money sending it to you, thinking you might buy something. The joke is on them. Why are you getting upset?

Seems a lot of people are spending a lot of energy getting upset about things for absolutely no reason.
 
Not the post offices fault, it's the senders, I walk
from my mail box up my driveway right to the
recycling can, it never comes in the house!
 
OK, here's just a thought. But with the money spent on printing,postage,paper,handling
maybe they could reduce the price of the product.......
 
(quoted from post at 08:12:21 12/13/16) Not the post offices fault, it's the senders, I walk
from my mail box up my driveway right to the
recycling can, it never comes in the house!
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f it cost the same per oz. that regular mail cost it would end very fast. I have heard all the arguments that it supports the post office and keeps it alive. I am not so sure. Post offices could be open every other day adding in Saturday as a convenience. Mail delivery/pickup could be every other day and yes skip Saturday as a cost cutting measure. I see this a common sense approach to a long standing problem in the operating cost of the Post office and the tons and tons of paper that fills our land fills. I have also heard of recycling this paper. If you eliminate it in the first place then there is no cost to the community to recycle something that does not exist. Looks like a win for all to me.
 
Same here. The walk gives me time to see what was mailed to me. An awful lot of medicare schemes this time of year, non of which are worthy of answering.
 
I know a fellow who said to do that. I did it a few times but got to lazy to bother. I just burn it or recycle it.
 
Actually you are paying for to have it delivered by subsidising the rates that are way to low on all that bulk mail junk mail.
 
If not for the junk mail, the PO would be even broker than it is, and we kind of need it for the "real" mail we need to send from time to time. Just put it in the recycle bin and don't fret about it. There's several people making a living at putting the junk mail together- don't begrudge them their job. Its all a part of commerce.
 
If they would have to pay the same as you or I would to send that envelope that costs the post office the same to handle it would make people feel better about it but still not like it as we are now paying to get it sent to us.
 
I don't get a whole lot of junk mail. I guess my address hasn't made it's way to the companies that distribute it.

But thinking about it, a hand full of junk mail carried to the recycle is about the least invasive way I get advertising.

It's better than having my TV (that I pay for) interrupted by commercials.

It's better than having my computer screen covered by a pop up that won't go away.

It's better than someone at the door at dinner time.

And it's a whole lot better than having a machine or someone I can't understand call my cell phone when I'm elbow deep in grease! LOL
 
In my case the cause is the wife ordering catalog items and when one gets your name they sell it to all the others. Personally I like to see some of the catalogs and maybe get Christmas gifts mail order. Easy enough to recycle paper.
 
It does not come from the post office, the post office just deliver it. You can contact each sender and ask them to take your name off their mailing lists, or you can just dump all the junk mail in the trash or recycling like everyone else does. Check with your Post Master if you can still write "Refused" on an item and ask if it will be sent back to the sender or if the post office just disposes of the refused items as a cost saving measure.

FYI, now-a-days your name and address will also be listed in several places and bar codes inside every envelop, every ad, and every catalog, so unless you check every page your post master would have an easy time tracking down whoever dumped all that stuff at a federal site.
 
Most annoying thing is separating out the junk. Not hard to loose bills that somehow got stuffed inside a catalog.
 
Does anyone remember the late 1960's song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" by Arlo Guthrie? Being a litterbug had a downside in that story.
 
You have to make a commitment to getting off
their lists but it can be done.
I hate junk mail and go to great lengths to
get removed.
Everytime you get something with a return
envelope send it back with a hand written
note to remove your address.
If no envelope, use your own and spend a
stamp.
I write the following:
"The pox on you junk mailers! Remove this
address from all future marketing schemes."
Sometimes it takes a couple of trys.
If I don't get results I google the CEO and
address of the company and send him a
letter. I tell him I want to be removed and
will take legal action if they continue. I
also suggest he make it easier to get
removed.
I have been doing this for at least 15 years
and might get one piece of junk mail per
month. Yes, I have probably spent $100 on
stamps over the years.
Of course the best way is never give your
address out. I needed to get a haircut on
Sunday and of course all the barber shops
were closed. So I went to Great Clips as
they are open. The girl asked for my phone
#. I said none.
She asked for my name. I said none. She
asked for my address. I just laughed.
While I was in the chair another guy came in
and gave her all that info.
Dumb!
No magazines, no subscriptions either.
Anything I order online I have sent to my
wife's work address.
 
Anyone with a wood stove has a use for the junk mail paper. Good for the fire starter just under rough cut kindling. Those without wood burning stoves have a minor problem-- but may have friends with wood burners in shop or secondary heat in house, then a large paper bag with weeks junk mail is handy for the shop stove that gets intermittent use. Wood cook stoves may dispose of the handy 'light the fire' bundles for breakfast cooking. One guy I know is complaining about lack of starter material and another says paper seems to be getting some fireproofing- goes out soon after lighting. Gripes come from both sides of issue. RN.
 
I have done similar when they want address, phone etc (like buying small item at the mall) just give them a fake one!!! Best one was paying in cash, lady started in with all that and do you want to sing up for credit card. I started talking in French she rang me up made change and was awful quiet!!!!
 
Same here wife orders from catalogs and now we get some days as many as 10 plus catalogs. Can't burn it all but thank god for recycle bin.
 
My wife has taken the time to request they take our name off the list. We get very little now.
Richard in NW SC
 
My advice is to not let it bother you.
The nearest post office to me (as the crow flies, this post office's zip code is not MY zip code) is in a town with a population of about 15 people. It's open six days a week, even if it's less than two hours a day. Yet you can do just about anything you want at this post office as you can in any other big city post office....except wait in line. Matter-of-fact, some days there it does absolutely no business at all. But I'd hate to see it close and all that junk mail helps keep it open.
 
I go to Great Clips and they use the phone number to keep track of how the customers want it cut, that way if you get a different person they know right off just what you want. Only one time got any mail from them and it was a coupon for a cheap cut next time I was in.
 
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