[Patriot777]

Let's face it---junk mail is just that: Junk Mail. Let's stop the menace.

[smokingfrog]

The USPS doesn’t want it to stop, otherwise they would loose a major source of income.

[Star Traveler]

Good grief! LOL ... with all the rest of what is going on in this country ... I don’t put “junk mail” as too high a priority right now ... :-)

[mountainlion]

Junk mail is what is keeping the US PO afloat. I use junk mail to light my fires at night. I keep it all summer and make fuel out of it in the winter.

[randog]

Or you could do what I do—place a trash can next to the mail box and take 10 seconds to sort the mail.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Get rid of bulk mail rates, get rid of junk mail. But that would also gut the finances of the U.S. Postal Service.

Hmmmm, two birds with one stone.

[earlJam]

Postal Employee: "May I help you?"

Kramer: "Yeah, I'd like to cancel my mail."

Postal Employee: "Certainly. How long would you like us to hold it?"

Kramer: "Oh, no, no. I don't think you get me. I want out, permanently."

Newman: "I'll handle this, Violet. Why don't you take your three hour break? Oh, calm down, everyone. No one's canceling any mail."

Kramer: "Oh, yes, I am."

Newman: "What about your bills?"

Kramer: "The bank can pay 'em."

Newman: "The bank. What about your cards and letters?"

Kramer: "E-mail, telephones, fax machines. Fedex, telex, telegrams, holograms."

Newman: "All right, it 's true! Of course nobody needs mail. What do youthink, you're so clever for figuring that out? But you don't know the half of what goes on here. So just walk away, Kramer. I beg of you."

Supervisor: "Is everything all right here, Postal Employee Newman?"

[gunsequalfreedom]

Are you willing to have your postal rates increase to have junk mail stopped?

I get as irritated by it as you do. But each time I look at it I realize it helps pay the way for all other postage.

[ClearCase_guy]

Nearly half of the junk mail received annually (44 percent) ends up in a landfill.

I've heard that it takes 10,000 years for a piece of paper to decompose in a landfill. ;)

[easternsky]

I open it Stuff it full of whatever is handy paper, Gospel tracts, other junk mail make it real heavy and return it and they have to pay extra postage.Learned that years ago right here on FR.

[DBrow]

“Nearly half of the junk mail received annually (44 percent) ends up in a landfill.”

OK, where does the rest wind up? Gotta be a pretty big pile somewhere.

[TankerKC]

...nearly $320 million in local tax money is used to dispose of junk mail...

I wonder where that figure came from...

[KarlInOhio]

Open up all of your junk mail and look for toll free phone numbers. Use those numbers to call them often, preferably from pay phones.

(Can you still make toll free calls for free from pay phones and stick the person you called with the extra surcharge? You used to be able too, but it has been three years since I used a pay phone and that was just to call my cell phone company about a lost phone)

[KTM rider]

USPS says the junk mail keeps postal rates lower because junk mail is low cost to deliver and the income it generates creates a steady revenue base. If junk mail were to halt, postal rates would have to spike in order for the USPS to make budget

[Jack Hydrazine]

I stop my junk mail by sending writing on the piece of paper that has my name on “Please remove me from your mailing list.” I place it in the postage-paid return envelope or spend the money and put it in my own envelope and send it back. It works about 99 percent of the time.

[mbynack]

44% of junk mail ends up in the trash? That’s shocking. I mean it’s shocking to know that 56% isn’t thrown away. What happens to it? Do people eat it? Does it get flushed down the toilet?

[Rodamala]

I had an ebay seller leave me negative feedback when I left positive feedback for him but mentioned that the music CD i bought for $0.05 (+5.95 S&H) had a manufacturing defect and track 10 skipped. This A-hole's big red negative feedback is my only ebay feedback blemish... over a $0.05 CD.

So... I took his return address and while in the doctor's office shortly thereafter I pulled out EVERY SINGLE business reply mail insert. Needless to say that jackass got a LOT of magazine subscriptions, embroidered towels, Franklin Mint plates and figurines.

BILL "ME" LATER!