"Hello, this is the USPS calling…" In regard to your complaint.

Mia Taylor — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:02:21 +0000

Woke up a few days ago. A blocked caller. I hate blocked callers. To be honest, I usually don’t pick up. This time I did, and boy was that a mistake.

It was kinda like this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKlzQo3Wqo

Ok, so maybe it didn’t happen just like that but basically what they told me was this:

Well Ma’am, they pay us to deliver the bulk mail to you, so we can’t simply stop delivering it. What you can do, however, is contact each of the distributors personally and pay to be removed from their mailing list.

Well, let me give you an idea of how long this would take. In 2 days of not checking my mail, I received the following pieces of junk: (Keep in mind that most of these have multiple pages…as I’m sure you well know!)

Organize your home, ClosetWorld- Sent to Postal Customer
PennySaverUSA- Sent to Postal Customer
A Local community center pamphlet- I receive this bi-monthly at LEAST
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Faith Baptist Schools pamphlet
Henry’s Farmers Market – Sent to Postal Customer
Misc Furniture on Sale- Sent to Postal Customer
IKEA pamphlet (I do not shop here and have not given them my address)
Doit Center Sale junk- Sent to Postal Customer
Longs Drugs/ CVS coupons- Sent to Postal Customer
MoneySaver
Rite Aid pamphlets/Coupons
Molly Maid
40-page LocalValues coupons
REDPlum coupons – Sent to Postal Customer
Vons- Sent to Postal Customer
Albertsons- Sent to Postal Customer
Ralphs – Sent to Postal Customer
Pavilions– Sent to Postal Customer
Smart& Final- Sent to Postal Customer
LA Private Trainers – Sent to Postal Customer
World Wide Windows
Hometown buffet- Sent to Postal Customer

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, two days.

Case and Point. I will be switching to a private post office box.

Sifting Through Junk- Thanks USPS.

Mia Taylor — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:22:47 +0000

USPS Mail boxes should all come equipped with a headlamp and shovel for all the digging we endure just to get out bills and holiday cards. I’m serious, the junk mail problem is a big problem. It’s a problem for a number of reasons, reasons I’m sure you’ll agree with.

Ever sit in your kitchen shaking all the grocery coupons and pamphlets erratically just to make sure you didn’t lose a piece of mail in the abyss of junk mail? It’s a regularity for me. Maybe I’m getting more junk and bulk mail than most, but that’s unlikely. I’m sure I’ve accidentally tossed an important letter here and there, and for this reason I’ve decided to become a P.O. Box user. Why has getting our mail from the mailbox regressed to the days of sifting through email inbox spam folders of the 90’s ? And better yet, Why can we not opt out of receiving all the junk?

I stopped by my local USPS store to see if I could fill out a form which would (hopefully) put me on a list of others annoyed with CouponMania, MoneySaver and all the other bulk mail, but to no avail. “You mean I have no option in the matter,” I said to the postman. He looked at me and simply said…”Um…no ma’am.” Fan-tastic. Cool. Great. Thanks USPS

Yesterday, when I picked up my mail (and the endless junk mail that accumulated over just 2 days) I noted that it was time for a blog post. Not only irritating, the junk mail problem has become more and more wasteful over time. Aren’t we trying to go “green?”

Like I said. It’s a big problem. Make the switch- get a P.O. Box near your home or work.

Visit http://donotmail.org/ to sign the petition against junk mail!

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"Hello, this is the USPS calling…" In regard to your complaint.

Sifting Through Junk- Thanks USPS.