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Re:Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman t... by mythrwy on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:20AM (#20002429)
(US resident). I haven't gotten one piece of junk mail in nearly 15 years (except for a few generics addressed to "resident", but even they are uncommon). Before that it was weekly shiny newspaper type ads and letter spam by the pound with a tiny bit of real mail.

It was an accident but here is how I did it.

I had a temporary job back in early 2000's so I got a short term lease in a different city and opened a PO box at post office. Then I unexpectedly got called back and was slated to return but didn't and neglected to close the PO box and forward mail. I was a road warrior for next 5 or 6 years and seldom at permanent address, so I didn't bother putting in address change back to permanent residence. Instead I got an online mail service (I don't know if was this, but something like this https://www.postscanmail.com/) that opened and scanned mail and I'd read it in browser, download scans, and have important stuff physically forwarded to wherever I was at the time.

Finally that all ended and I got a real address and stopped the online mail receiving. For whatever reason something in that process completely stopped the junk mail to this day and it's wonderful.

Re:Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman t... by mixmastamyk on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:45AM (#20002719)
So is the solution going off-grid for several years, or using the scanning service?