[The Shrew]

I wonder how many absentee ballots were in the stacks of discarded mail.

Regards,

TS

[SlapHappyPappy]

I really don’t want anyone deciding for me what counts as junk mail.

[DemonDeac]

[freebilly]

As someone who’s paid very good money to have my “junk” mail delivered directly to people’s homes and mailboxes, I’d love to smack this jerk in his dumb face. Don’t want to do the job I paid you to do? Quit and find something else @$$hat!

[BipolarBob]

A jury of his peers would have acquitted. If the mail ain’t worth spit, you must acquit.

[Wiseghy]

I’ve heard plenty of carriers complain about this. Despite the abysmal response levels (nearly beyond measure at this point), mail loads increase on some routes to nearly unimaginable levels.

It is amazingly physical job and not one for slackers with health problems. That the PO allowed someone to continue this way is a statement on government managed services. I found carriers as a whole to be wonderful, friendly people. Also, their income and benefits are far less than is commonly believed.

[metalurgist]

Steve Padget is a thief and should be serving hard time.
The businesses that paid for the delivery of their advertising should go after this clown and bankrupt him.
How “democrat” of him to decide what the people on his mail route should receive.

[antiunion person]

Good job mailman Steve. I wish I had this guy deliver my mail. By all the comments I've read so far on this story, they neglect to mention NO ONE on this mailman's route complained to the Post Office about missing ‘important’ mail. The authorities said they found nothing but junk mail in his garage. Maybe the upper management loves junk mail companies because fewer people are using the US Mail. Many people pay their bills on line and if I need anything important delivered, I employ either UPS or FedEx. I have NEVER had a package turn up missing using them but always had a problem with the US Postal Service.
Again, great job Mailman Steve.

[anonsquared]

I WANT A CAR THAT RUNS ON JUNK MAIL!

That way I could look forward to getting it.
And I could spend my time getting on mailing lists instead of trying to get off of them.

[STONEWALLS]

....since 2003 I check the mail carefully....back then I almost tossed a letter from an unknown developer that ended up paying us $500,000 for some land options...last week I got an offer unsolicited from a land and timber buyer...a friend of ours got one from out of the blue from a cell phone tower company....now he’s getting $800/month from them....what happens is these guys go down to the court house and pull property records and do a mass mailing....it looks like a junk mail when you get it because you probably don’t recognise the sender....the first offer you get will be a low ball one...you can go up from there.

[mrmargaritaville]

heeellllloooo Newman!

[Tribune7]

Those companies were paying Mailman Steve's salary with that "junk" mail.

And let's not forget that Mailman Steve was doing a lot less work by not delivering it.

[goodnesswins]

To ALL of you who don’t like the “junk” mail....it’s called CAPITALISM!!!!! And, if you don’t like it...you CAN contact the Direct Marketing Association and get off lists....

[nobama999]

As much as I don’t like junk mail, the law is the law and he should take a fall for what he did.

Junk mail is one of the vehicles of the market economy.

[fella]

The Direct Marketing Assn., members should have to pay the same postal rates that we common citizens pay. That would cause less junk mail and raise revenue for the Post Office.

[squidward]

Here is an idea that takes on the idea of junk mail. Never tried it myself but it seems like fun.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=junk_the_junk

The guy who writes this seems like a real jerk, but the website is pretty funny.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

Isn’t that what “Harry the Mailman” did in LUCIFER’S HAMMER?

I always liked that character.

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

I was wondering what happened to all of those credit card offers.

No wonder CitiBank is in trouble. What's in your wallet?!

I wish there was a way to opt out of snail mail spam too.

[Figment]

I’ve always wondered why these guys always get caught with the stuff they didn’t deliver. Burn it, take it to the dump, whatever.But stacking it up in the garage just doesn’t make sense

[Between the Lines]

Our mailman doesn’t deliver junk mail on Saturdays ever. I do wonder if he trashes it or just delivers it on Monday, but I really don’t care enough to ask.