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Re:Brave’s use of direct mailers by boucher on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:16PM (#31623514)
Yeah, I don't get it either. Is there anybody who doesn't get this kind of mail at home addressed to them by name all the time?
Re:Brave’s use of direct mailers by smeej on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:02PM (#31625027)
Not from companies I've never interacted with, no.

I haven't done any of the extreme privacy things, but I do use a PO box for almost everything, and thus I really don't ever get anything addressed to my name sent to my actual residence.

Re:Brave’s use of direct mailers by Firehawke on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:12PM (#31625125)
Really? Because every time a new dentist office, grocery store, etc. opens up I get unsolicited mail from them to let me know they're now a thing in my neighborhood.

Does it bother me? Not in the slightest. It's a community notice, and the Brave thing would only annoy me if it hit the levels that AOL CDs were at in the 90s.

Re:Brave’s use of direct mailers by drusepth on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:23PM (#31626621)
This is probably a very location-dependent experience. I had literal stacks of spam mail every single mail day when I lived in Springfield and Kansas City, almost zero spam mail over entire years when I lived in smaller Missouri cities, and nowadays get maybe ~1-2 spam pamphlets per month at most here in Portland.

Probably based on a mix of local laws and/or how profitable each city is to market to.

Re:Brave’s use of direct mailers by smeej on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:17PM (#31701621)
I get plenty of things like this addressed to the current resident of my house.

None of them are addressed to me personally by name.