[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

Thank you, daniel200.

For what?

[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by 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

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

Thank you, daniel200.

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

For what?

I thanked him for posting a link that I found useful.

[Keefelane66]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

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.

During the Bush2 administration Congress controls what and how the Post Office operates. A law was made for the Post Office to fund medical and pension obligation 75 years in the future this requires the Post Office to deposit between 5-6 billion dollars annually.

[Keefelane66]

Originally Posted by 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

All this for one piece of junk mail if you come up with stopping the other 100 or so mailing I’ll thank you.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Keefelane66

During the Bush2 administration Congress controls what and how the Post Office operates. A law was made for the Post Office to fund medical and pension obligation 75 years in the future this requires the Post Office to deposit between 5-6 billion dollars annually.

That funding requirement is being repealed, and the Post Office is getting a relief package of $50 billion. But, they are still deeply in debt and getting deeper. See link.

Congress passes $50 bln U.S. Postal Service relief bill | Reuters

But, none of that has anything to do with the "operating expense" deception. The Post Office promotes an untruth that they are not a burden on the taxpayer. They want people to ignore the enormous cost of retiree pensions and health care, which they don't want to count in their operating expenses. But, that is why every GAO audit reports that the Post Office loses money.

[daniel200]

Originally Posted by Keefelane66

All this for one piece of junk mail if you come up with stopping the other 100 or so mailing I’ll thank you.

Well actually, there is another site where you can “optout” of receiving prescreened credit card offers. And it has worked for me the last two years.

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Consumer Credit Reporting Companies are permitted to include your name on lists used by creditors or insurers to make firm offers of credit or insurance that are not initiated by you ("Firm Offers"). The FCRA also provides you the right to "Opt-Out", which prevents Consumer Credit Reporting Companies from providing your credit file information for Firm Offers.

OptOutPrescreen.com

However, for this site you must also provide your name. OptOutPrescreen.com is a centralized service to accept and process requests from consumers to "Opt-In" or "Opt-Out" of firm offers of credit or insurance. OptOutPrescreen.com is a joint venture among Equifax Information Services, LLC, Experian Information Solutions, Inc., Innovis Data Solutions, Inc., and TransUnion, LLC (collectively the "Consumer Credit Reporting Companies").

[billethkid]

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.

I so look forward to meeting them!!!!

[Keefelane66]

Originally Posted by daniel200

Well actually, there is another site where you can “optout” of receiving prescreened credit card offers. And it has worked for me the last two years.

Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Consumer Credit Reporting Companies are permitted to include your name on lists used by creditors or insurers to make firm offers of credit or insurance that are not initiated by you ("Firm Offers"). The FCRA also provides you the right to "Opt-Out", which prevents Consumer Credit Reporting Companies from providing your credit file information for Firm Offers.

OptOutPrescreen.com

However, for this site you must also provide your name. OptOutPrescreen.com is a centralized service to accept and process requests from consumers to "Opt-In" or "Opt-Out" of firm offers of credit or insurance. OptOutPrescreen.com is a joint venture among Equifax Information Services, LLC, Experian Information Solutions, Inc., Innovis Data Solutions, Inc., and TransUnion, LLC (collectively the "Consumer Credit Reporting Companies").

Thank You now your getting serious.
Now if I could stop the weekly hearing mailings.
Thanks Again

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by billethkid

I so look forward to meeting them!!!!

Wish they would get a uniform

[tophcfa]

Junk mail is my favorite type of mail, everything else are bills.

[Worldseries27]

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 would be their response to the fact that we all pay for trash pickup in our " amenities" bill. I see dozens of trash receptacles around the various rec centers and fields. Is postal trash any different?

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

It also keeps people working in landfills employed

What about all the trees that had to die so junk mail could be made( he says hands wringing)

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by 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

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[bowlingal]

I happen to like Valpak....good coupons to save me money. I look for it every month

[Eg_cruz]

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?

Thank you