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NEW YORK (AP) It's the kind of holiday mail that might have been tossed aside, discarded like any other piece of junk mail: a special gift offer for a facial at a local spa. Only the address on the letter no longer exists. And the woman the letter is addressed to died more than five years ago in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Hundreds of pieces of mail destined for the former World Trade Center still arrive every day at a post office facing ground zero the relics of the unfinished lives of Sept. 11 victims. Telephone...

Junk mail postman 'still in job'   Roger Annies advised people how to reduce their junk mail A postman suspended for telling people how to stop receiving junk mail says he remains a Royal Mail employee, but will know if he is to be sacked in a week. Roger Annies, 45, attended a disciplinary hearing after circulating his own leaflet on his round in Barry, south Wales, about unsolicited mail. Royal Mail said their "door to door" service was vital to its business and keeping costs to customers down. Some residents in Barry said they may start a petition...

Guys, I've stumbled upon a DVD that I'd like to show you. I'm into motivational speakers like Bob Proctor and achieving everything I want in life. This movie is a little liberal, dramatic, and slightly paranoid. However its message is one I've been into for a while, and have never seen it presented so clearly and powerful. http://www.whatisthesecret.tv/ "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." -- Matthew 7:7 --

[SCOTUS] Justices Allow Postal Customers to Sue By Gina Holland, February 22, 2006 Associated Press The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Postal Service can be sued by a woman who tripped over mail left on her porch. The 7-1 decision revived a Pennsylvania woman's claim that she was entitled to damages after suffering wrist and back injuries during the 2001 fall at her home in suburban Philadelphia. The letters, packages and periodicals were put on Barbara Dolan's porch instead of in her mailbox. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, dismissed government concerns of costly litigation. "The government...

"You are bidding on the exclusive license to send this letter to any or all of the contacts in any or all of your email address books, any number of times. This license is unlimited, and also includes all rights in all markets and media. Copyright will be transferred to the successful bidder. "As we all know, if you forward any “pass along” email to people in your address book, then they pass it on to people in theirs, within 36 hours it reaches everyone in the world. Then it starts over. Most people are terminally sick of this trash...

Over the course of the last few months I have received unsolicited facsimile transmissions from one particular fax blaster. The number for removal and the number to fax back the advertisements for health insurance, mortgages, hot leads, selling my business and so on is also in my area code. The telephone number is not serviced by the local exchange carrier (Verizon) but a competing local exchange carrier (CLEC) After the first fax on August 7th I called the ‘removal’ number on the fax but it was busy. I tried about six times but it was always busy. I used nanpa.com...

Subject: Yukos Oil. From: "Mr. Alexei Zakharenko" Date: Thu, August 4, 2005 4:10 pm Priority: Normal Options: View Full Header | View Printable Version Dear friend, I am Mr. Alexei Zakharenko a personal treasurer to Mikhail Khodorkovsky the Richest man in Russia and owner of the following companies: Chairman CEO: YUKOS OIL (Russian Largest Oil Company) Chairman CEO: Menatep SBP Bank (A well reputable financial institution with it’s Branches all over the world) SOURCE OF FUNDS:I have a profiling amount in an excess of US$100.5M, which I seek your Partnership in accommodating for me. You will be rewarded with 4%...

AOL (America On-Line): You could pave the nation with the free discs these people send out, call 1-800-605-4297 (24 hours a day) to get off the list. Tell them your first name is "current", last name "resident". Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes: You can get the Clearinghouse to stop clogging your mailbox by contacting customer service at 1-800-645-9242 (8:30 am to 8:30 EST), sending a fax to 1-800-453-0272, mailing to 101 Channel Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050, or you can send email to pch@ant.net. PCH will remove any number of names from a specific address, but you have to list each name...

Email is getting unreliable everywhere. The reason: Too much junk email. To deal with all the junk, internet service providers are filtering email, even ones that you want if they look like junk email to the ISP. And individual users are are unwittingly setting their junk email filters too high, not realizing that mail they want is getting blocked by their own hand. When they don't get a response to an email inquiry they send out, they write, "Why don't you respond to me?" not realizing someone had. The solution: Email service providers must start charging for email. Under this...

Junk Fax Prevention Bill of 2005 will actually LEGALIZE junk faxes. This bill passed out of committee on April 14, 2005 and now goes to the Senate floor for a vote which can happen at any time. It's being positioned as just "restoring" the status quo when in reality the EBR exemption is totally new. Please call both your Senators to object to this bill immediately (instructions on the link).

Guess Who WANTS Junk Mail? Feb. 2, 2005 - Some Americans might think of junk mail as cruel and unusual punishment, but a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday that prison officials may not stop bulk mail and catalogs from reaching prisoners. The case stems from a lawsuit against Washington state's Department of Corrections, which had barred its inmates from receiving such mailed materials. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling and rejected arguments that banning bulk mail makes it easier to run a prison and reduces the risk of fire. "Publishers have a First...

The United States was the 800-pound spam-spewing gorilla throughout 2004, a spot it held from wire to wire throughout the year, an anti-virus firm announced Monday. According to researchers at U.K.-headquartered Sophos, the U.S. accounted for 42.1 percent of the world's spam, more than three times the next-guiltiest nation, South Korea, which launched 13.4 percent of the globe's junk mail. China, Canada, and Brazil rounded out the top five. "When we first reported on the top spamming countries back in February 2004, the U.S. had the excuse that the CAN-SPAM Act had been in existence for a couple of months,"...

Dave Barry is a very funny man. Except when he gets junk phone calls. Then, the syndicated columnist becomes a very angry man. So angry, in fact, that he has twice published the phone number of a powerful telemarketing lobby, the American Teleservices Association, in his weekly humor column. His advice to readers: "Tell them what you think." Did they ever. So many angry calls came in after that the ATA shut down the number. Last Sunday, he gave out their new one. It's no wonder the group was bombarded. Consumers are fed up with the increasingly audacious gang of...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Posted by Jim Sparkman Sunday, June 01, 2003 ChronWatch received this item by anonymous e-mail. We thought it good enough to post, even though we don't know the origin. If anyone knows the proper credits, we'll gladly add them. Subject: The Ant and the Grasshopper CLASSIC VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so...

Every person on the net has one thing in common. They all hate spam. E-mails offering Viagra via the net Anyone who has an e-mail account will have received these unsolicited commercial messages that offer you things you do not want, at prices you will not pay, from companies you will never call. 2002 was a bumper year for these messages and now 30% of all mail flying around the net is thought to be spam. Filtering firm Surf Control has compiled a list of the top 10 most annoying spam messages sent across the net in the last 12...

Was it fair for anti-spam groups to arrange for tons of junk mail to be sent to the home of Spam King Alan Ralsky? - No, that was not fair. I think I'll send him a letter of support. 23% - Yes. Turn about is fair play. Serves him right! 44% - I don't know. Maybe I will send him a letter and see what he thinks. 33% Poll Link Here

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sick of being inundated with get-rich-quick schemes and Viagra ads in your e-mail? Well, get used to it because, despite concerted efforts to fight it, "spam" is expected to get worse before it gets better, analysts say. The average American will get more than 2,200 spam, or unsolicited bulk e-mail, messages this year and 3,600 by 2007, Jupiter Research forecasts. "It's getting easier to send spam messages. You can buy a CD-ROM with millions of e-mail addresses for next to nothing and send it out for next...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO — Two California men rebelling against a sea of America Online promotional compact discs have got mail like never before.</p> <p>People around the world have sent Jim McKenna and John Lieberman more than 80,000 CDs offering trial subscriptions to AOL's Internet services. They say when they collect a million, they'll go to the company's front door in Virginia to say, "You've got mail."</p>

AOL: Stop Sending Wasteful Metal Junk Mail Center for a New American Dream America Online's aluminum junk mail is in a class all its own. The company's newest gimmick is to package its disks advertising free hours of online access in a metal box. This ''metal mail'' is a central part of the company's $3.8 billion annual ad budget and really takes a toll on our nation's energy security and on our environment. The boxes require an extremely energy-intensive manufacturing process that exacerbates climate change as well as our dependence on coal and oil. And, this junk mail is filling...