I am sick and tired of spam and junk mail, as I am sure you are. Do you know just how bad it is? Let me give you some facts. 5.6 million tons of junk mail are deposited in landfills each year. 44% of junk mail is un-opened and thrown away. It costs $370 million a year to dispose of just the un-opened junk mail. The F.T.C. (Federal Trade Commission) receives 130,000 complaints per year about junk mail. I checked on Google, and there are many sites which, for a fee, will attempt to rid you of junk mail. I won’t pay, but it is ridiculous to have to put up with it day after day, month after month. I could find no site which would attack the problem in a sensible way. So I have to elucidate. Here it is:
As everyone knows, I am totally against governmental subsidizing of anything, including churches, American Legions, or anything at all. So why does the U.S. Postal Service subsidize business by taking heavy mail for anywhere from six cents up to about thirteen cents, when I have to pay 39 cents for an ounce? Why fill the dumps with junk mail? Why waste all the trees cut to print it? If someone wants to advertise to me, let them pay full price! For crying out loud, let’s stop this abuse of the public, trees, and of course the poor mailman who has to carry this stuff. I never open a letter if it doesn’t carry full postage. I don’t want to receive it either, and if the sender knew I wouldn’t open it, he wouldn’t send it, even at six cents. Why allow it then? What stupid law requires the U.S. Postal Service, which is authorized by the Constitution, to subsidize businesses and charities? The Constitution does not authorize the Postal Service to subsidize anything, and if they didn’t, I am certain that first class mail would go down to about a quarter. Will the D.C. Gang stop this? Of course not, but I need to mention it, as perhaps a movement can be started which will not be thwarted by the moneybags who are being subsidized. We once had such a grand nation before FDR. Now look at us with an un-winnable war going on, trillions of bucks rolling off the presses, bureaucracy growing by leaps and bounds, and not nearly enough citizens saying STOP, and starting petitions, getting involved, screaming as in “A Thousand Clowns,” “I am not going to take this any longer!” Great play and great movie!
I found a neat web site. It is apfn.org. Lots of good stuff