Trash, DAMNED trash, and )%^&*#&$@$&*%^$! junkmail

[unixronin]

I have decided that I want junkmail to be a crime.  Conservation violation.  $1 per offense.

Each separate item mailed to each separate address to be considered a separate offense.

...Well, OK, no.  I'm not really serious about making it a crime.  But I DO want junk mail to be tariffed at a surcharged rate, not a discounted rate, and I want the US Post Office to be required to set up a means for any postal recipient to file a preference that says "Do not EVER deliver any mail to this address that is not individually addressed by name to a current resident", and then abide by it.  We just came within one semi-chance comment of losing a $450 unemployment check that got accidentally trashed because it was interleaved with a sheaf of ()%*)(@*&$(*&^()#%*&@%_)*@$^%$!! grocery-store circulars and advertising postcards.

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[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i lost a couple live paychecks that way. for 8 years :) oiy. got it back though.

some folx have these gadgets that roll the paper into logs, and they burn that. not TOO clean but cleaner these days, and it works well. heck, people with those SIGN UP for junk mail ;)

i've asked my mailman about the idea of putting everything into a nearby "delivery bucket", and he says that by law, since someone paid for it to be delivered, it has to be, and they can't NOT do it.

about the only way to really knock it off, is to have important things sent to a PO BOX, and assume everything in the driveway mailbox is trash - i don't think you can get away with NOT having a mailbox. drat.

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