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But.. But… What About the Trees????
U.S. Government is killing trees.
is this sustainable???!!!?????
Eighty-four billion pieces of junk mail were delivered to our doors last year – music to the ears of the U.S. Postal Service.
“We certainly have to fill in the void when it comes to revenue,” says the agency’s Tad Kelley
There’s been a huge recession-related decline in the volume of first class mail. The postal service hasn’t relied directly on taxpayer dollars since the early 80′s.
Cutting costs only goes so far in easing serious budget deficits, so the USPS is looking to junk mail as a rescue remedy to add more revenues.
Jorel Lives!
September 22nd, 2012
We’re going to need bigger shredders.
LadyGun12
September 22nd, 2012
Junk mail goes straight to the trash at my house.
BigFurHat
September 23rd, 2012
I have a garbage can between my mailbox and my house.
Junk mail doesn’t make it past the can.
Bad Brad
September 23rd, 2012
Big surprise. It’s their retirement fund. They need to pre pay it.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-u-s-postal-service/11433/
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Moe Tom
September 23rd, 2012
I go through all my junk mail. I have this belief that some day I’ll get a 10 million dollar check from Publishers Clearing House.
Bad Brad
September 23rd, 2012
That will buy a shit load of Viagra. LOL They’ll be calling you kick stand.
Moe Tom
September 23rd, 2012
Hey Bad Brad. What do (does) Tom Mac Ann Shoes and the US Postal Service have in common?
Give up?
Ans. Two hundred thousand pair of huh loafers.
Bad Brad
September 23rd, 2012
And a bunch of Ak47′s. I swear, our mail lady at work is packing. I’m always extremely polite. They are next to the DMV for loafers, no question.
Troy
September 23rd, 2012
13K at Ruth Chris, bidness as usual…
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/business_thebottomline/2008/04/postal-service.html
Stranded in Sonoma
September 23rd, 2012
Congress should pass a law that all unsolicited mail should have the word UNSOLICITED in big red letters on the front of the item. No exceptions. I’ve seen unsolicited mail that looks like it’s from the IRS and even had Revenue Service as part of the return address. Stuff like that should have the big red letters on them. Problem solved.
By the way, all of my junk mail goes straight into the recycle bin. (CA you see. We’re more environmentally sensitive here.) Except for the credit card offers which are introduced to the shredder. I recommend you all do that. And check the return envelopes; they have a bar code that is labeled Customer Identifier. You don’t want that in the garbage or the recycles.
And all unsolicited email should have to start each subject with UNSOLICITED: — nothing else. This way you can filter it straight to the delete bucket. If any “request” for junk mail is part of an installer or something similar and the “request” is checked by default, it is unsolicited. If it is unchecked by default, it is not unsolicited. If some junk mail spammer doesn’t follow the rules (that is, he’s in a foreign country), we find out where his servers are, send over a few folks with flame throwers, and burn his servers to the ground. Then find out where his backups are and burn them to the ground too.
Wanna bet the junk mail, both email and snail mail, is reduced to a trickle?
Snowball the Sourpuss
September 23rd, 2012
“The postal service hasn’t relied directly on taxpayer dollars since the early 80′s.”
That idiotic quote reminds of leftards that claim the USPS isn’t a government funded entity. They say this with a straight, smug-riddled face.
I’ve seen it before. These people also vote.
spymyeyes
September 23rd, 2012
I guess im the only one here who has a useful purpose for all that junk mail….
Once I tear out my shipping info and shred it (which later makes EXCELLENT fire-starter) I keep it to use as a second source of fire-starter on top of the shreddings.
As a bonus it makes you feel really good inside to see anything with Obumbles or his wookies face on it go up in flames!
dba_ vagabond_ trader
September 23rd, 2012
What a perfect visual of this entire regime; garbage in garbage out to save the USPS.
FreeMan & Sarah on Vacation
September 23rd, 2012
I don’t like junk mail but I do like the USPS. It is like a Mcdonald’s, you always see it, almost never use it, but would miss it if it were gone.
Maybe they should deliver burgers. Getting rid of the drive thru would save me a ton of gas.
harbqll
September 23rd, 2012
Typical lib-tardism: in order to keep wasting money on a service that is obsolete, inefficient, and already has several civilian counter-parts which do a much better job…they plan to increase delivery of something nobody wants, and which their own secular religion claims is “destroying the environment”
no-mo-obamy
September 23rd, 2012
Stranded in Sonoma
I save credit card offers, and insert all the contents from one company into the return address envelope of another.
If that doesn’t get their attention, a small piece of steel that will just fit in their envelope cost them about $5. I’ve found that they don’t send me any more shit after a couple of those nuggets reach them.
NoLikeO
September 24th, 2012
Speaking of the USPS, which does a worthless job in my city, I had an interesting thing happen. I had ordered something and it was shown delivered. I called the people I placed the order with and they were adament I call my post office. This is not a small town. So I called the PO for my zip code. I started calling in them in the a.m. and got a busy signal. This went on all day. I finally got pissed and called the operator and asked if they could find out if the number was out of order. They checked, it was not. She said it would be $6.00 if they went in and listened for voices, I said go ahead, as I wanted to see. Well….guess what the assholes had the phone off the hook all day!! As a matter of fact, I think I’ll call and report them. But it won’t help;)