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Stop Junk Snail Mail I want to stop my daily Junk Snail Mail deluge from clogging up my US postal box (Not E-Mails). The FTC has a National Do Not Call Registry for telemarketing telephone calls but I am dubious about some of the Do Not Mail websites that I have found: 1. DirectMail.com National Do Not Mail List; https://www.directmail.com/directory/mail_preference/ 2. The Direct Marketing Association's DMAchoice (www.dmachoice.org) https://www.dmachoice.org/dma/member/regist.action Anyone have a silver bullet to stop this junk snail mail?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers. The U.S. Postal Service is dropping a popular national program begun in 1954 in the small Alaska town of North Pole, where volunteers open and respond to thousands of letters addressed to Santa each year. Replies come with North Pole postmarks. Last year, a postal worker in Maryland recognized an Operation Santa volunteer there as a registered sex offender.

I can get into FReep mail but when I click on the item, it does not open.

WASHINGTON – It's no surprise that Democratic lawmakers got an earful about health care legislation when they went home this summer. But Texas Republicans in the House who have already denounced the legislation have also been bombarded by correspondence from highly informed constituents. The office of Rep. Joe Barton, R-Arlington, received an unprecedented amount of mail, spokesman Sean Brown said. In the five weeks prior to the health care debate, Barton received nearly 400 e-mails. In the five weeks after it began, he got almost 2,800. "We have legislative correspondents that are tasked with returning mail, and they have been...

Yet another giant company has plunging sales, soaring debt, and is weighed down by massive labor costs. Will taxpayers have to pay for another federal bailout? Alas, it's already in the cards because this company is the U.S. Postal Service, which has estimated losses of $7 billion this year. With email grabbing ever more market share from snail mail, USPS's finances are steadily deteriorating. What should federal policymakers do? They can't give USPS the General Motors treatment and nationalize it, because it's already government-owned. And they can't reform postal markets with a "public option" because that's what the USPS already...

CHICAGO (AP) - You can find a bright spot in the recession as close as your mailbox: There are far fewer hefty catalogs, bulging coupon packets, unwanted credit card offers and glossy fliers clogging it up. Thanks to the economic downturn and rising shipping costs, junk mail volume was down 16 percent from last fall to this summer, on pace for the steepest annual decline in decades. Businesses that are still sending junk mail are sending less of it—shrinking their catalogs and using thinner paper to save money. It's a sign stores are still struggling, but it also means less...

House Republicans this week accused Democrats of censoring GOP mailings to constituents on a variety of subjects and of imposing uneven requirements on the minority party’s mail. Democrats on the franking commission — which must approve all official mail — have blocked Republicans from using politically weighted descriptions of climate change legislation, the stimulus bill and other issues, according to e-mails obtained by Roll Call. Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) said he went through seven drafts of his last newsletter, which included language about energy policy. “It’s embarrassing and unsupportable,” Culberson said, adding that requests for approval used to take a...

<p>Or maybe you've left it on top of the wooden table in your front hallway.</p> <p>Or tossed it onto the chair next to the couch in your living room.</p> <p>The Saturday mail -- the bills, magazines, promotional fliers, and maybe a few actual letters that showed up in your mailbox as always this weekend, and that you haven't quite gotten around to dealing with yet.</p>

Postage rates are increasing on Monday, May 11 for first class postage and other services. .. it's not too late to lock in the current rate by buying Forever Stamps. "If you buy them today at today's price, it doesn't matter if you use them in numerous years to come, even 100 years from now, that stamp will still be good as a first class stamp, even though you paid 42 cents for it," But time is of the essence, because the Forever Stamp rate also will increase on Monday.

"As the price to mail a letter is set to increase on Monday, mail volume at the U.S. Postal Service continues to drop. To counter the tough times, the government-run service operating 579 post offices across the state will continue to reconfigure its work force and its ability to compete for customers. Brian Watson, 37, of Lowell, said he's getting ready to make the jump from putting his bills in a mailbox to completing the transaction online because of the cost to use the postal system."

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, April 27, 2009 – Using a fleet of specialized aircraft, members of the 53rd Movement Control Battalion ensure that mail, equipment, passengers and supplies make it to their destinations across Afghanistan. The Casa 212 is a civilian-made, Air Force-owned airplane that transports passengers, equipment and mail. An eight-member crew consisting of soldiers, airmen and contractors can move the entire fleet in less than 30 minutes. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Cody A. Thompson  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. The 53rd MCB specializes in scheduling, coordinating and executing flights and can move their numerous airplanes on...

WASHINGTON, March 23, 2009 – A recent increase in mail addressed to “Any Servicemember” has prompted the Military Postal Service Agency to remind the general public not to send mail or care packages addressed in such a manner. “Mail to ‘Any Servicemember/Any Wounded-Recovering Warrior,’ deposited into a collection box and erroneously accepted at a United States Postal Service post office will not be delivered,” MPSA officials said in a news release. “This restriction applies to all classes and types of mail.” The Defense Department suspended the “Any Servicemember” and “Operation Dear Abby” programs in 2001 following the terrorist attacks....

A woman's postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally arrived in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.Insurance agent Dave Conn opened his post office box in the community of Hudson last week and found the mailing sent from Helena, Mont., in 1962. It was sent to Marion White, the previous renter of the box, who had died in 1988. U.S. Postal Service spokesman Victor Dubina says the postcard may have been stuck in equipment or lost behind a mail chute.

Say what you want about former senator and convicted felon Ted Stevens, but The Hulk did plenty for rural Alaska over his 40 years in the Senate, including establishing a complex system to subsidize air travel in the state's remote communities. Called bypass mail, the Postal Service in effect helps keep costs down for small airlines and their passengers to the villages as it regularly delivers mail to communities. But now there are concerns that rate increases, set to take effect May 11, could impact the bypass mail system. In a letter Tuesday, Gov. Sarah Palin urged Postmaster General John...

Postmaster General John Potter says the massive deficits facing the post office could force the agency to cut out one day of mail delivery per week. Potter asked for an end to the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. Faced with dwindling mail volume and rising costs, the post office was $2.8 billion in the red last year.

Is Yahoo having issues? I'm not even getting any spam in that account.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT in late August that the U.S. Postal Service planned to transfer 162 mail clerks made no sense to veteran postal worker Nick Casselli. With hundreds of overflowing unsorted mail bins blocking passageways at the Southwest Philadelphia processing plant and a yearlong ban on overtime, Caselli said, he knew there weren't enough clerks to process the daily mail. As a new shop steward, Casselli set out to find out why. Using the "eyes and ears" of co-workers, Casselli was first to uncover the Philadelphia post office's dirty little secret. "I was shocked," he said. Senior managers allegedly were ordering...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq, Dec. 12, 2008 – A team of certified mail handlers is helping to boost morale for deployed soldiers by ensuring they receive their holiday care packages from family and friends back home. Army Sgt. Charles Kowalski makes a list of mail recipients to post outside the headquarters mail room while Army Sgt. Frederick Gregory sorts mail in the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team mailroom, at Forward Operating Base Falcon, Iraq, Dec. 10, 2008. Kowalski and Gregory are certified mail handlers and infantrymen assigned to the 4th Infantry Division’s Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment,...

Government mail carriers would deliver emergency supplies of antibiotics to people in U.S. cities in the case of an anthrax attack, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said on Wednesday. The system has been tested in three large cities -- Seattle, Philadelphia and Boston -- and a pilot program is set to begin soon in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said there was no evidence any attack was imminent but that it was important for authorities to have a quick distribution system ready. The U.S. Postal Service carriers who would bring the antibiotics...

SUTTON ISLAND, Maine - This offshore island, one of five islands that make up the town of Cranberry Isles, has no year-round residents. It doesn’t even have any roads to speak of, which is one reason it has had a peculiar seasonal mail delivery system to serve the occupants of 25 or so seasonal homes. Residents say that since at least the 1950s, and perhaps longer, mail has been delivered to the island by a private passenger ferry service, leaving packages, postcards, letters, bills, and whatever else had enough postage in a specially marked trash can on the float at...