I have come to the point where I only give cash and don’t worry about a deduction. It’s not worth it to go through what you have to go through for years after donating to what you think is a worthy cause. They will hound you to death.
Why is it littering the house instead of being in the trash?
The old man sounds like a pack-rat.
Postmaster General: “Kramer, I’ve been, uh, reading some of your material here. I gotta be honest with you: you make a pretty strong case. I mean, just imagine. An army of men in wool pants running through the neighborhood handing out pottery catalogs, door to door.”
Kramer: “Yeah! Ha ha.”
Postmaster General: “Well, it’s my job. And I’m pretty damn serious about it.”
I rollup all junk mail and bind it and burn it
Big problem with seniors, don’t let them give any money to anybody, or your house will fill up & phone never stop ringing from beggers, industrial strength beggars.
I remember a story of some guy who wanted all the junk mail he could get.......he had this process where he mixed it into this slurry, then into drying molds, for logs for his fireplace. Somehow he removed all the harmful stuff from the paper....
At least the pile of mail will slow the Jehovah Witnesses down from preying on the elderly...
Junk mail is indeed a scourge, but I also despise having to clean trash flyers off of our porch every single day, dropped off by some less than reputable looking characters. They tie ads on the front door handle, drop them onh the porch, and shove them in the crack of the door. The ones on the porch blow around the yard.
I don’t see why residents can’t opt out of both types of junk, in the mail box and on the property.
Somewhere in that house is a lost post-it-note that says :
Buy trashbags
When I was in college we had one professor that everyone hated with a passion. So as the years went by about 30 of us would sign him up, his university mail box for as much junk as we could find.
Anything from those give away boxes in the liquor stores, credit card offers at the airport to magazine adds for information on everything from parenting guides to cook books.
I know that I alone must have signed him up for over a 100 different things.
Another guy claimed about 200 and God only knows just how many more folks got wind of the scheme and joined in.
I can only imagine how many mailing lists his name and address is on.
That’s why I don’t send donations. They put you on “sucker” mailing lists.
I gave to a Christian charity once and I told them I want a minimal amount of mailings from them, soliciting money from me. They listened to me and I rarely if ever hear from them. I like it when an organization responds according to my wishes. Makes me thinks highly of them.
If the post office actually just delivered "mail" it would be broke in a week
I hate junk mail with a passion. My wife loves it and if she got her hands on it, it will sit all over the house. I am the one that gets the mail and the junk doesn’t even make it inside ! It gets filed away in the trash can at work.
One junk mailer in particular is Advo out of Connecticut. Their mail is a “pile of trash” that goes into the box and I hate the stuff since I have to look through it in order to find legitimate mail. I actually had them stop sending it to me. Also every 5 years, you have to “remind” them not to send it as well. Recently, the same company started sending their newspaper trash through the mail on a different day in lieu of putting it in the Sunday paper. It is sent under a different name. What pissed me off, I was already on their do not mail list and they still send it to me under the different name.
Just like the spammers, these people insist on dumping junk into your mailbox that you don’t want and it is frustrating and a waste of my time having to deal with it.
Now when I was growing up, there was a kid down the street (John) that used to torment me. Not being the violent type - but devious - I used to go into bookstores and collect all those "blow-in" subscription cards that they insert in magazines by the score. I'd then fill them out and mail them using this kids name and address and he had to spend the next few months explaining to his parents why he had subscribed to Playgirl, bridal and body-building magazines. I then had an older cousin call the house where he would leave voicemails in a lisping voice about what a great time he had the other night with Johnny and if he could see him again some time real soon.
Also want to add, it is interesting the tree huggers don’t say a word on the scrooge of junk mail. Their silence on it is deafening ! But also junk mail attacks the quality of life, therefore they are silent on it.
Get on a “suckers’ list and you’ll never be lonely again.
And we are all paying for this wasteful offensive annoyance.
No.