After they both get out of the hoosegow, this guy should team up with Penis Man and work together as superheroes. They are the heroes we need!
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In the Bukowski book Factotum, Henry Chinaski just throws it into the bushes & goes off to the bar.
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Also more staff to deliver the mail, and accepting that services like the mail should never be run to maximise profit for shareholders (even when there aren’t any shareholders).
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AMEN! The law that requires the Post Office to give free delivery of advertisements should be repealed, or at least significantly changed. Every year they spend hundreds of millions in fuel costs, maintenance on vehicles, salaries, maintaining the sorting equipment, to handle gigatons of useless crap that nets the advertisers some kind of reaction from customers maybe 0.0000001% of the time.
You want to help the environment? Prevent trees from being cut down uselessly - prevent the floods of junk advertising the Post Office has to handle.
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Yep. My carrier does this all the time to game my Amazon Prime delivery, and that doesn’t require a signature. It’s a total pain in the ass because then I have to go pick up my stuff at the PO. When I said something to the guy working at the PO he just threw up his hands, shrugged and said, “Dude, happens to me too.”
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So is that David Brin’s The Postman?
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I wish that was something we could opt into. Of course, that leaves it to their discretion what counts as those categories.
I too would find it hard to work up the energy to deliver 4700 pieces of mail that nobody wanted in the first place.
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Actually, it’s not free, it’s ‘bulk rate’, as explained by an employee who used to work at a local post office.
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I wonder what a removal of “bulk rate” would do to the system?
We’re already being advertised at from every direction. A reduction in physical advertisements that end up in landfills would be a good thing.
Then the advertisers would have to decide if paying the full rate would be worth it to get their message out.
And the post office would se a jump in revenue if they decided to, and a drop if they didn’t, but the amount of time and energy spent sorting and delivering that crap – as @Snork said above – may balance it, and make the system more efficient.
It won’t happen, but I’m enjoying the thought.
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Make the same exceptions for bulk rate as for robocalling; only charities and political ads (I don’t think there’s any easy way to flag ‘people you’ve had business with in the past’ as being vetted for bulk rate) get a free pass, and they have to provide their bona fides; all others pay cash - er, full rate. Alternately, just double the cost of bulk rate, or other appropriate raise. I can’t think of the last time we heard of that happening (eta: I looked it up: 1996!)
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i know a few people ( friends of various friends ) who are carriers. their schedules are monitored and set to be unrealistically high paced. people are always behind, and always moving.
better maybe than the scheduling for gas meter reading, where a good friend of mine literally had to run for half the day to keep on schedule.
it’d be worse if it weren’t for the postal unions, but it’s still a very physically demanding job
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There are a lot of places to opt out of junk mail:
Valpak Unsubscribe Request (Coupons)
Home | Save.com (Coupons)
https://dmachoice.thedma.org (Catalogs - $2 processing fee for 10 years)
https://isapps.acxiom.com/optout/optout.aspx (data broker that sells to direct mailers)
http://content.moneymailer.com/company-info/contact-us (Coupons)
Remove from Mailing List (Publishers Clearing House)
http://optoutprescreen.com/ - (credit card offers)
Delivery Options | Save.com (coupons)
https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf (sexually oriented advertising)
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This is begging for a meta opt-out page.
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Agreed. It is not a job for the faint of heart. At least the guy in this story had a benign way of “going postal”.
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He faces up to 5 years in prison, and as he has pleaded guilty to a felony, will lose all benefits, and future ability to receive assistance. This is a shame.
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Came for this, but it’s not just carriers. I’ve seen similar stories about workers in mail order pharmaceutical companies who throw people’s prescriptions away because they cannot meet processing quotas. With the USPS, there are systemic problems that make these stories seem like small potatoes:
