Saving the Planet - Your Mail-Your Trash

[66PonyCar]

Not just junk mail; once a year they dump several different yellow page type phone directories on my porch. They go directly to the recycling bin (right after I remove the plastic bag they're in of course)!

 

[Lilhigbee]

I may or may not know of someone who took a prepaid envelope from the Oregonian and taped it to the biggest box of rocks that would fit in the mailbox for outgoing mail.

Picture of Australian mail box block. Saw lots of these signs in the Adelaide area.

 

[JeremyK]

The NRA is the worst offender...

 

[flashpan]

L84
Bullseye on your assessment of the USPS!

 

[MannyGlocks]

Jeremy,

I must be the one and only one who doesn't get NRA junk mail or phone solicitation and I'm a long standing member.

Makes me wonder......?

Could it be because I only pay $10.00 annually to stay a member?

 

[CountryGent]

We use the junk mail to start the woodstove, as we do most of our heating in the winter months with said. Other than that, it is worthless.

According to the latest data, 48% of the mail volume is junk mail. But, we keep an unsustainable system in place, that is hemorrhaging funds every year, to keep the unwanted crap flowing.

 

[MannyGlocks]

It's simply an inefficient jobs program.

 

[Certaindeaf]

OK...my first Off-Topic thread. So as a baby boomer, I went from watching folks throw trash out car windows to having 3 seperate recycling bins. I think it's a PITA but I do my part now...even collected some cash for ammo for taking cans to the bottle drop.
So here is the question: Can someone tell me why we take 95% of what's in our mail boxes now and put it in the paper recylcing bin. So we pay someone to bring us paper and pay someone else to take it away...or am I missing something? What happened to saving the tress, planet etc? Would the US post office survive if bulk mail was eliminated?
And a better question...how do we stop this? Tell me someone is working on this and I'm just out of touch. Think I'll cut down the mail box this afternoon.

Guess what? I ordered a box from Amazon and it was packed in five boxes.. then the recycling guys just put it in a landfill.




Maybe

 

[awshoot]

Write "return to sender" on it, put it back in the mailbox. They'll get the message...eventually...maybe.

There was time maybe ten or so year ago, when I was extra annoyed by junkmail, I'd take the ad materials from one piece of junkmail and place that in the prepaid return envelope of a different junkmailer, and mail it off.