You've got mail
How much junk mail do you get each day?
I’m not talking about Nigerian scams and other assorted bits of spam.
I mean real junk mail.
The stuff that gets slipped into your letterbox whether you want it or not.
Well it seems like we get a lot more than we probably realised.
According to US company 41-Pounds, the average person in America receives around 41 pounds of junk mail each year.
That’s more than 18kg for us folks in the metric world.
People in the US can now have 41-Pounds put an end to their junk mail problem.
And it only costs $41 for the privilege.
Nice idea I'm sure - but not as good as buying a self adhesive No Junk Mail sign from the local hardware store for $1.75.
posted by Stan Lee at 12:33 am
4 Comments:
Brand DNA,
When I was visiting Sydney a couple of years ago I noticed on a walk about that many mail boxes had a sticker requesting "No Junk Mail." When I asked a local what was up, they said the postman is obligated to not LEAVE the crap in the box.
When I asked her how the postman KNOWS what is junk and what is real, she put her hand on her hip, and replied, "Oh reeealllyyy..."
I think it's brilliant and would love to start the trend in the US -- quite frankly, can't find the stickers. Could you please send me one??
D.
Irony makes great humour. My DM agency has a No Junk Mail sign on its front door.
Do Not Mail Opt-Out Law would be fair to everyone.
The proposed recent "Do not mail" is an Opt-Out law. Only those not desiring advertising mail need opt-out. Anyone desiring advertising mail can do nothing - and continue to receive it. Why deny those wishing to avoid advertising mail the power to do so?
I do not consider handling unwanted advertising placed against my will on my personal property to be a civic obligation!
The US Supreme Court said in the Rowan case in 1970, ““In today's [1970] complex society we are inescapably captive audiences for many purposes, but a sufficient measure of individual autonomy must survive to permit every householder to exercise control over unwanted mail. To make the householder the exclusive and final judge of what will cross his threshold undoubtedly has the effect of impeding the flow of ideas, information, and arguments that, ideally, he should receive and consider. Today's merchandising methods, the plethora of mass mailings subsidized by low postal rates, and the growth of the sale of large mailing lists as an industry in itself have changed the mailman from a carrier of primarily private communications, as he was in a more leisurely day, and have made him an adjunct of the mass mailer who sends unsolicited and often unwanted mail into every home. It places no strain on the doctrine of judicial notice to observe that whether measured by pieces or pounds, Everyman's mail today is made up overwhelmingly of material he did not seek from persons he does not know. And all too often it is matter he finds offensive.”
Furthermore, the Supreme Court said, “the mailer's right to communicate is circumscribed only by an affirmative act of the addressee giving notice that he wishes no further mailings from that mailer.
To hold less would tend to license a form of trespass and would make hardly more sense than to say that a radio or television viewer may not twist the dial to cut off an offensive or boring communication and thus bar its entering his home. Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit; we see no basis for according the printed word or pictures a different or more preferred status because they are sent by mail.”
We need a nationwide “Do Not Mail” law to create a one-stop, convenient place for homeowners to give senders the aforementioned affirmative notice that we do not want certain kinds of mail sent to our homes.
http://www.newdream.org/emails/ta19.html
Signed,
Ramsey A Fahel
There is a better way! It's called greendimes.com. they do the same thing but they, unlike these two guys working from their garage, actually do something with the profits. They plant trees to help the environment. These guys 'say' they are donating 50% of profits. I'd love to see how much money to date they have donated. Trust me don't get caught by a scam and use greendimes. I've been using it and I have yet to get any junk mail!
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