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12-04-2020 10:38 AM |
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Originally Posted by thecinks1@gmail.com
(Post 1869093)
If the USPS didn't give advertisers ENORMOUS discounts, we wouldn't get so much JUNK MAIL! They pay next to nothing to send us all those unwanted brochures and catalogs. The junk clogs our trash cans; imagine what it does to our landfills!
Why aren't enviro-fanatics screaming about the trees that are cut to create all that junk and the dilemma it creates in trash management? They're so invested in getting rid of plastic straws, but never complain about the extreme amount of wasted paper in junk mail!
Of course, the reality is junk mail saved thousands of union jobs at the post office. Twenty years ago, the USPS was threatening to reduce mail delivery to 3 or 4 days a week. So what? Most messages are now sent via email or text. "Snail mail" is a relic of the past. But, any reductions in service meant the union would have less workers and less dues being paid. Can't have that! The more junk mail to be delivered, the more workers they have to employ!
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Me thinks you might draw the "haters"..... you are getting way too close to the real reasons; always look beneath the surface ! Plastic straws, BAD, junk mail, GOOD. Toilet paper, BAD (people should buy more bidets, SAVE TREES), paper towels, BAD, use terry cloth and the laundry (SAVE TREES), but junk mail, even use plastic & metal to ATTACH KEYS (???) to cardboard advertising, perfectly acceptable (100,000 metal keys or more a day going into land fills in every state ? ) It's really difficult to logically explain PEOPLE !
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