[daniel200]

I don’t like junk mail. It never gets past the trash bin near my mail box. I found this link that allows you to opt out of those ValPak mailers. No name is required to opt out. Just your postal address.

Valpak Mailing List Removal Request

[retiredguy123]

LOL. So, you opt out of one piece of junk mail. What's the point? Ever since ValPak started putting $100 checks in some of their envelopes, I have been afraid to throw them away. And, sometimes they actually have useful coupons, like Sam's Club membership discounts.

[Stu from NYC]

Watch out for the trash police who do not want you to use the trash bins by postal station for junk mail.

They want you to take it home and toss it in your own garbage.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Junk mail must work because companies keep sending it , but there is a benefit from junk mail for all of us, it keeps the prices the post office charges for other services down

[Ecuadog]

Thank you, daniel200.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

Junk mail must work because companies keep sending it , but there is a benefit from junk mail for all of us, it keeps the prices the post office charges for other services down

It also keeps people working in landfills employed

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com

Junk mail must work because companies keep sending it , but there is a benefit from junk mail for all of us, it keeps the prices the post office charges for other services down

Not logical. It doesn't benefit me because I rarely use any postal services. But, I do pay a lot of taxes that are used to pay for the Post Office, most of which goes to pay them to delivery the underpriced junk mail.

[JohnN]

Thanks Daniel. Unlike those who says it doesn't matter, etc etc. Well, it matters to me, it's one less piece of junkmail.
I don't know if that employs postal people or garbage dump people, but I don't need it and the world doesn't need it.

[Keefelane66]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Not logical. It doesn't benefit me because I rarely use any postal services. But, I do pay a lot of taxes that are used to pay for the Post Office, most of which goes to pay them to delivery the underpriced junk mail.

The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.Mar 17, 2022

[retiredguy123]

Has anyone ever heard the environmentalist view about junk mail? Tons of paper manufactured to produce junk mail. Then it is transported in planes, trains, and trucks around the country. Then, more than 95 percent of it is discarded into the trash without even being read. Then, it is picked up and hauled away in more trucks to be burned or deposited into a landfill. Without the U. S. Post Office, none of this would happen. I have never received any junk mail from UPS or FedEx.

[Papa_lecki]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

Has anyone ever heard the environmentalist view about junk mail? Tons of paper manufactured to produce junk mail. Then it is transported in planes, trains, and trucks around the country. Then, more than 95 percent of it is discarded into the trash without even being read. Then, it is picked up and hauled away in more trucks to be burned or deposited into a landfill. Without the U. S. Post Office, none of this would happen. I have never received any junk mail from UPS or FedEx.

Our trash is converted to electricity.
Most junk mail is printed locally, so not really trucked around the country. And TV mail system is a highly sustainable model, mail truck goes to one place and drops mail for a few hundred residents.

And how much to send a birthday card or a check via UPS or FedEx?

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Keefelane66

The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.Mar 17, 2022

Not true. The Post Office owes billions of dollars to the Treasury. You mentioned operating expenses, but that is only part of the cost to the taxpayers for the Post Office. For example, it doesn't include the cost for pensions and health benefits that retired postal workers receive. A postal worker who retires at age 55, will receive a generous pension and health care benefits for 30 years or longer, while performing no work at all. The Post Office does not consider this cost as part of their "operating expenses", but it is an enormous cost to the taxpayers. That is why they continue to need to borrow more money from the Treasury.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

Our trash is converted to electricity.
Most junk mail is printed locally, so not really trucked around the country. And TV mail system is a highly sustainable model, mail truck goes to one place and drops mail for a few hundred residents.

And how much to send a birthday card or a check via UPS or FedEx?

So, you think junk mail is a good deal?

[GpaVader]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Watch out for the trash police who do not want you to use the trash bins by postal station for junk mail.

They want you to take it home and toss it in your own garbage.

What you are actually supposed to do is take the prepaid postage envelopes that come with your CC applications and fill those with the junk mail and send it back. They have to pay for the weight of the envelope so fill it up.....

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by GpaVader

What you are actually supposed to do is take the prepaid postage envelopes that come with your CC applications and fill those with the junk mail and send it back. They have to pay for the weight of the envelope so fill it up.....

I have been tempted several times