Re:One person's war on junk mail (1996)
by TchoBeer on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:07PM
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"jobs" and "money" don't do anything for society. Junk mail is a drain on resources that doesn't produce anything useful. If the problem is that too many people are unemployed and there aren't enough jobs to go around, that shouldn't be an excuse to not put an end to an incredibly wasteful and annoying practice.
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Re:One person's war on junk mail (1996)
by pavel_lishin on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:20PM
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I think SilverRed was being sarcastic.
Oops.
Re:One person's war on junk mail (1996)
by CamelCaseName on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:39PM
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Junk mail is "useful" because it distributes information.
It's much less effective than, say, books, because there's a lot of overhead and waste in sending junk mail to people who don't care for them.
Beyond that, it also subsidizes other mail deliveries. If mail wasn't being delivered to every address, having someone drop off a parcel just for you would be much more expensive.
> Beyond that, it also subsidizes other mail deliveries. If mail wasn't being delivered to every address, having someone drop off a parcel just for you would be much more expensive.
This is a political decision which indicts the political regime the USPS operates under.
Re:One person's war on junk mail (1996)
by omgwtfbyobbq on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:24AM
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Do you mean the American political system in general?
Not entirely, just the part that refuses to fund the USPS directly.