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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
It wouldn't work. I don't go there often, but you can't quit going because you may receive an "official" letter that you must respond to, such as a letter from the IRS, a jury summons, or a court order. I think people should be able to cancel their postal account, and all mail would be returned to the sender, notifying them that the recipient no longer has a Postal Service account. That would greatly reduce the junk mail problem.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your point. If you cancel your USPS account to get rid of junk mail, how will you still get “official” letters?
Much of the junk mail is presorted, so it requires little effort for the USPS to deliver it to you, so it helps subsidize the “official” mail. Without it, it would cost a lot more to mail a letter. If you want most of the junk mail to stop, we all need to get together and stop responding to it. Quit attending the free dinners. Quit clipping coupons out of the flyers. Businesses would stop doing it because they would not get enough business to pay for the junk mail fees.
So, it’s really
our fault.