I've never seen so much junk mail in my life till we moved here. It's truly a junk mail paradise. Car dealers, hearing aids, assisted living and memory care facilities, financial planning and funeral services, dental implants, and other assorted things I'll ask for when I need them.

Once a week a company offers to cremate us not sure if they mean after we are gone though. They do through in a free lunch.

Very good

Fair enough. One person’s junk is another’s treasure. As in a reply stated earlier in this thread, without commercial direct mail pumping $ into the USPS system, your postage would be much higher.

The $50B ($5B/year for 10 years) relief package is certainly an exception as well as a previous $10B loan that was forgiven. Both of which are a result of onerous financial burden imposted by the administration in 2006. (ahem).

The current bill is to offset the requirements around retirement funding that no other company (except a few federal agencies) have to do. And have resulted in the PO almost running out of money (PO Fund is/was down to $9B)

The Bill was passed by a bipartisan vote of 342 to 92. So, BOTH parties agreed this was a good thing to do.

To the "junk mail". I don't like it either, but it is a method of some small (some not so small) companies advertise. And it provides a baseline income for the post office to offset the cost of delivering those birthday and Christmas cards to us from our grandkids.

My personal opinion is we should transition to a paperless society, but until then the post office is still the least expensive and most reliable method of sending snail mail.

A free lunch for members of the family while they cremate you? How thoughtful!

Only friends and neighbors seem to get the free lunch.

Would it be possible to fold in the cremation process in order to obtain even more energy?

Well some of us seem to be filled with hot air so there might be something to your suggestion. Would you like the number of the crematory?

I tried to verify what you said but couldn't. Today, I had 6 pieces of junk mail, from The Villages, Louisiana, Alabama, Illinois, Orlando, and Washington, DC. Also, I doubt that the paper and envelopes were made locally.

Sadly, Cremation consumes fuel and doesn't produce excess heat.

On the other hand there are a few companies working on composting instead of creation or burying. There are legal and health concerns to work out, but that is a great idea. Lower pollution than cremation, lower cost that either of the others. And it enriches the land.

Great reply! I hadn't thought of that, we could hire those that are unemployed and give them a pin to poke the corpse with and point the hole with the hot air escaping towards a wind turbine. By golly, I think this may be a viable business model - at least here. LOL!

Not a problem, wedding crashing is easy, just say, " I am a friend of the bride". We could just do the same and get a free meal!

Well for some reason my favorite wife has no interest in the free lunch so you will have to proceed without us.

However please let me know how it all turns out.

Now back to our regularly scheduled discussion of the pros and cons of junk mail and whether or not it plays a part in global warming.

Sure. What do you usually order from the free lunch menu?

I won't pay for a cremation in advance for the same reason that I don't have life insurance. When I die, I want it to be a "real" tragedy.

Thank you so much!!!! I hate them too, I consider it such a waste of resources to have them continually sending me things I throw away unopened. I just applied to get off their list--Thanks Again.

The lunch special:a040:

I know this isn’t the right thing to do but if I get any junk mail & it doesn’t have a mailing address on it, I re-mail it! Problem solved.

Please have your ValPak mailers forwarded to me. I love to save money using the coupons. :)