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Re:One person's war on junk mail (1996) by CamelCaseName on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @09:39PM (#27137478)
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.

Re:One person's war on junk mail (1996) by msla on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:26PM (#27138066)
> 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 (#27138391)
Do you mean the American political system in general?
Re:One person's war on junk mail (1996) by msla on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:52AM (#27138888)
Not entirely, just the part that refuses to fund the USPS directly.