1Thing Denver
Stop The Junk!
February 2, 2010 - 3:34pm
Posted by: Robbie Knight
Posted by: Robbie Knight
It's like a monster that won't die. Wanna keep fighting?
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It's like a monster that won't die. Wanna keep fighting?
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Junk Mail
As I was driving to work Thursday I heard Robbie's Green report. I have carried mail in Englewood for 16 years. I try to educate people about "junk mail". It's in quotation marks because I don't think people really understand what it is. For instance, the weekly ads generate revenue for the stores that advertise, the paper mill that grows trees to make paper, the printers who but them together, the Postal Service to deliver them and the trash haulers who put collect them. ALL THOSE JOBS WOULD BE ELIMINATED. We are not going into forests and tearing down trees!
If you don't want a piece of mail - write "Refused" on it (you can't open it first and then refuse it). If it can be returned to the sender, it will. There is an address on those weekly circulars - write to it and you will be added to their opt-out list. Please don't take our jobs!
Interesting...
...I had not realized that the jobs of wood cutters, paper mill workers, paper processing workers and postal workers relied so heavily on junk mail. I assumed there were plenty of other revenues needing those products and services. Most of my mail isn't junk mail, so that's why I made that assumption.
Thanks for your comment!
Robbie
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