Junk mail

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moosehead

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I don't know about anybody else but it seems some of the mail we receive is not very nice. Today got an advertisement about hearing loss. I read the the thing and dismissed it because it asks questions like do you have a difficult time following a conversation ? Yes I do when it is of no interest to me. And, what following a conversation has to do with hearing?

Then there's the blurbs from funeral outfits wanting to know if I would be interested in talking to them about "final arrangements"....I don't plan on telling THEM what my plans are as I'm not sure myself. Apparently planning ahead takes the burden of the worrying about such things away from you and you don't have to concern yourself about it. Well, knowing it would cost a lot I'll pass. For now.

Of course Life Insurance Companies send out flyers that tell you that you MUST have life insurance...Just in case if you're on a cruise and the ship hits an iceberg or your plane goes down over shark infested water and you can't swim....In my case, just for fun I called a life insurance company. When they asked my age THEY hung up.

It's getting to the point I ask Sue to go get the mail. She throws out the stuff we don't need. That way I don't grumble all day about the junk mail.
 

95% of my snail mail is junk. I go to the outside trash bin to glance at it, and then quickly throw it in. Trouble is, email is quickly getting into that territory, now. I'm glad I have great filters in place, for that. Also, my cellphone is catching up on the junk call rate. I block about ten numbers a day, but the scammer/spammer fiends just call from a new number.
 
My lady subtly lays the hearing aids mail near my keyboard

Then, later, she asks what I think...…probably
 

We choose to use a post office box. The postal service is kind enough to provide a nice sorting table and large blue waste basket. Only the legitimate mail ever leaves the building. :D
 
We've been getting a lot of junk mail even before we hit 50, mail for pre-paid funerals, long term care insurance, hearing aids, cremations, AARP, etc. It all goes in the trash. No shortage of spam mail even in the home mailbox, and no shortage of people wanting to sell you something. :rolleyes:
 
I would venture that 2 out of every 3 pieces of mail we get is Junk. I glance at it, and toss it in the trash. There is, however, an upside to all this junk....it helps support the USPS which has been struggling financially for the past several years. I would rather put up with all this trash than think of what it would cost if something like UPS or FedEx was placed in charge of mail delivery.
 
Don has a good point, junk mail creates jobs!

If I'm bored I open the junk mail to see if it contains a postage paid return envelope.

If it does I stuff the return envelope with the solicitation and mail it back to them.

Why should I be the only one getting junk mail! :eek:nthego:
 
The mail companies have a different name for it,
"Promotional Mail", I think and they need it since
we all us Email and Private Messaging.

Without it we will lose the snail mail.

Mike.
 
Well, I do two things for wife and I:

My wife is at work when I get the mail daily. I will either sort thru it at our mailbox in the apt. complex or sort thru it in our apartment. The "not needed" mail gets tossed in a "junk mail bag" by our desktop. I give my wife only mail that is important, aka bills or important information.

I'm the one, every couple of days, that cleans up the "junk mail" from my wife's iPhone, while she is in the shower getting ready for work. I know what to keep and what to get rid of. I do the same to my iPhone, but on a daily basis.
 
I'd say that over 90% of my snail mail is junk mail. I wouldn't miss it at all if it were done away with. Very little of our mail is anything we really want or need, other than bills, which we don't exactly
"want," but at least they serve a purpose. My building has a paper trash box next to the mailboxes, and it always gets filled up very quickly.

Worst of all is the time just before elections, when we get enormous amounts of compaign literature, often over and over again from the same candidates.
 

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