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Originally Posted by Windguy
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.
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I agree that it is our fault that junk mail works. But, I don't agree that junk mail subsidies official mail. The cost to send junk mail is subsidized by the taxpayers. That is why all junk mail is sent using the USPS, and not by "for profit" companies, like UPS and FedEx. The junk mail cost is less then the actual cost to the USPS, so no one can compete with them.
My other point is that people should be allowed to cancel their USPS account entirely. So, if the IRS or a court sends you an "official" letter, the letter would be returned to them, stating that the person does not have a USPS account. Then, they would need to resend the letter using FedEx or UPS, which is how they should send official letters anyway, and not intermingled with junk mail. But, by the current law, if the IRS sends you a letter using the USPS, you are legally deemed to have received the letter. I know people who threw away their stimulus debt card because they thought it was junk mail.