i dunno if there’s any truth to it, but somebody once told me that the revenue collected for junk mail “pays” for USPS. personally, i think even if that’s true, that it’s bullshit and we should just fund the postal service but ban unsolicited ads, scams, and bullshit. it’s such a waste of effort and materials.

like just have less mail moving through the system. the thousandth offer from the company i hate is not going to get my business. the ad for a financial service disguised as an official government letter only pisses me off. i don’t need the buy 5 bags of candy, get 1 free coupons for the grocery store. i have a recycling bin just for the place where i open the mail. i even keep the big rolling bin right by the mailbox so i can huck stuff right in if i have the time to sort it there.

i bet that, on average, of every single communication channel that exists to reach me (email, chat, physical mail, voice/phone), probably more than half of the pieces of communication coming at me each week are unsolicited advertisements.