Life's Little Rants #2: Junk Mail!
How many of you out there come home from a long day of whatever it is you do, open your mailbox, and find a small tree's worth of brochures, flyers, ads and whatnot from local merchants, only to throw them straight into the garbage? If you do, you can certainly relate to this. If you can't...well, this is my rant, so deal with it. :)
Maybe this happens around bigger cities or something, because I certainly don't remember getting a barrage of this useless crap in the small town I came from. However, it's been a long time since I've gotten mail there, needless to say since I don't live there anymore, so maybe people there deal with this, too.
To keep this brief by getting to a point as quickly as possible, why do I have to put up with this? Although some might say these ads can often times provide useful information and/or valuable coupons, I couldn't care less about them! I have better things to do than sift through a stack of store flyers, only to find services I wouldn't use, can't afford, or have no need for in the first place; or coupons for food that I don't even buy to begin with, and wouldn't start buying just because I have a damn coupon!
Call the post office, you say? Oh, I tried that already. Their quick response is that they have to put them in our boxes, since the businesses pay for them to do it. Well, you know what? I pay for the rental of this mail box, and if I don't pay for the use of the box, then I pay rent for the apartment I live in, and I feel like I have a right to say what gets put into my mail box and what doesn't! Am I wrong in this? Am I completely out of line? Is it wrong to not like seeing paper wasted, considering what's going to happen to most of it anyway? Sure, I could recycle, but wouldn't it be easier to just not give me the crap? Of course that would be easier, but then the businesses that sent them out would have to worry about what to do with all the extra mailers, and they would probably have to spend more money trying to find out who wants to know about their sales and who doesn't. It's cheaper to just give them to everybody, and let them deal with the problem of discarding it. Consciences clear, and a dollar saved. Yay, Corporations! More trees destroyed? No-no-no, never mind that...they just made more money off the mindless masses who don't give a shit! Who cares what this one Infidel thinks?
Anyway...
I actually have one further step I can attempt in this matter. The post office I contacted previously was at the local level. Next, I try THE post office. The big one. The one that will hopefully tell the local branch what they can do with the wiping material they stuff my box with day after day.
It probably won't happen. We are talking about a service of our Federal government, after all...
...and that's a-whole-nother rant in itself. ;)
Maybe this happens around bigger cities or something, because I certainly don't remember getting a barrage of this useless crap in the small town I came from. However, it's been a long time since I've gotten mail there, needless to say since I don't live there anymore, so maybe people there deal with this, too.
To keep this brief by getting to a point as quickly as possible, why do I have to put up with this? Although some might say these ads can often times provide useful information and/or valuable coupons, I couldn't care less about them! I have better things to do than sift through a stack of store flyers, only to find services I wouldn't use, can't afford, or have no need for in the first place; or coupons for food that I don't even buy to begin with, and wouldn't start buying just because I have a damn coupon!
Call the post office, you say? Oh, I tried that already. Their quick response is that they have to put them in our boxes, since the businesses pay for them to do it. Well, you know what? I pay for the rental of this mail box, and if I don't pay for the use of the box, then I pay rent for the apartment I live in, and I feel like I have a right to say what gets put into my mail box and what doesn't! Am I wrong in this? Am I completely out of line? Is it wrong to not like seeing paper wasted, considering what's going to happen to most of it anyway? Sure, I could recycle, but wouldn't it be easier to just not give me the crap? Of course that would be easier, but then the businesses that sent them out would have to worry about what to do with all the extra mailers, and they would probably have to spend more money trying to find out who wants to know about their sales and who doesn't. It's cheaper to just give them to everybody, and let them deal with the problem of discarding it. Consciences clear, and a dollar saved. Yay, Corporations! More trees destroyed? No-no-no, never mind that...they just made more money off the mindless masses who don't give a shit! Who cares what this one Infidel thinks?
Anyway...
I actually have one further step I can attempt in this matter. The post office I contacted previously was at the local level. Next, I try THE post office. The big one. The one that will hopefully tell the local branch what they can do with the wiping material they stuff my box with day after day.
It probably won't happen. We are talking about a service of our Federal government, after all...
...and that's a-whole-nother rant in itself. ;)
posted by aboynamedjimmy at 3:32 AM
1 Comments:
And don't forget that the slick, glossy fliers don't recycle so easy and waste a lot to produce. Reduce, reuse, recycle: the mantra's also the order of preference. Recycling is the bronze medal, friend. If the freakin' megacorps would REDUCE the amount of crap they send, the Earth would be a MUCH healthier place! Trees, remember the Lorax people?!? Remember the Ents??? ok, druid rant finished. Thanks for letting me chime in, Infidel. ;-)
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