Tired of junkmail........?

[Frank Elder]

Hide your mailbox in your car, seriously.......

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=644128

[Robert Horne]

I seen on the news today, that first class mail will be delivered slower next year.

There was nothing said about junk mail being any slower..

[Frank Elder]

In about 15 years or so when the last of the noncomputer people die off, there won't really be any reason for a post office other than package delivery

telegraph killed the pony express

telephone killed the telegraph

pager augmented the home phone

cell phone crippled the pager and home phone

email killed the pager, home phone and written prose[nobody writes on paper anymore]

cell phone texting has crippled email

electronic bill paying has killed mailing a check

Thus leaving only junk mail and flyers in your mailbox.

They could deliver the mail once a week at my house if they wanted to, all I get is junk mail on tuesdays and a paper on fridays.

All my others needs are taken care of electronically.

[Dennis_MN]

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They could deliver the mail once a week at my house if they wanted to, all I get is junk mail on tuesdays and a paper on fridays.

The post office has talked about eliminating Saturday deliveries for years,

With Frankie's plan, they could just deliver on Saturdays.

[Frank Elder]

The post office has talked about eliminating Saturday deliveries for years,

With Frankie's plan, they could just deliver on Saturdays.

lol......never happen:D

[greg g]

In about 15 years or so when the last of the noncomputer people die off, there won't really be any reason for a post office other than package delivery

telegraph killed the pony express

telephone killed the telegraph

pager augmented the home phone

cell phone crippled the pager and home phone

email killed the pager, home phone and written prose[nobody writes on paper anymore]

cell phone texting has crippled email

electronic bill paying has killed mailing a check

Thus leaving only junk mail and flyers in your mailbox.

They could deliver the mail once a week at my house if they wanted to, all I get is junk mail on tuesdays and a paper on fridays.

All my others needs are taken care of electronically.

All of which killed personal face to face communication, and rendered written english to a pattern of jargon based acronyms and glyphs.

[Frank Elder]

Yes....sad isn't it, to me, the early 80's started the death knell of proper behavior and well written communication. The me, whatta about me decade.

Edited December 6, 2011 by FRANKIE47

[Robert Horne]

The telephone system has a "do not call list" for telemarketers.

The postal service needs a "do not send junk mail list".

With advertisers not wishing to pay first class postage, do not send

junk.

[randroid]

Gents,

When I was in high school the father of a friend came up with what I always thought to be the ideal solution to junk mail. Whenever he got one of those postage-paid cards he'd fill a box with forty pounds of dirt and glue the card to the outside. The people who sent the card had to pay for the postage and it was amazing how quickly he stopped receiving them.

I don't like junk mail either but I tolerate it because it's about the only thing keeping the PO afloat.

-Randy

[JohnTeee]

All my others needs are taken care of electronically.

I tried computer sex, once.

I kept falling off the computer!

Cheers!

John

[Frank Elder]

I tried computer sex, once.

I kept falling off the computer!

Cheers!

John

Ouch...I'm kinda old fashioned JT, I gotta wife for that.

[Robert Horne]

I tried computer sex, once.

I kept falling off the computer!

Cheers!

John

Maybe you should buy a laptop...

[Robert Horne]

Gents,

When I was in high school the father of a friend came up with what I always thought to be the ideal solution to junk mail. Whenever he got one of those postage-paid cards he'd fill a box with forty pounds of dirt and glue the card to the outside. The people who sent the card had to pay for the postage and it was amazing how quickly he stopped receiving them.

I don't like junk mail either but I tolerate it because it's about the only thing keeping the PO afloat.

-Randy

I believe the junk mail is what is bringing the postal service down. All that junk mail is being delivered at a cut rate.

[Paul Beard]

Bulk mail is weighed at the post office and the sender is billed per pound for mailing. I found out about this when I deliverd a load of bulk mail and was told to place each plastic post office pallet on to the scale after weoghing told to place along wall. Whwn finnished I asked why weigh the mail they said all pallets weigh the same they total the weigh then deduct x amount for

the pallets and they bill by weight.

[Californian]

Gents,

When I was in high school the father of a friend came up with what I always thought to be the ideal solution to junk mail. Whenever he got one of those postage-paid cards he'd fill a box with forty pounds of dirt and glue the card to the outside. The people who sent the card had to pay for the postage and it was amazing how quickly he stopped receiving them.

I don't like junk mail either but I tolerate it because it's about the only thing keeping the PO afloat.

-Randy

Thats great and is what i used to do on a smaller scale, take return postage paid envolopes and put them in one box and what was in these letters in another box and stuff the envlopes with other than their own mailed advertisements, and after a while my junk mail droped real low...

Tom (11)