Operation

Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 12:53pm

I got a bad pork chop at Macaroni Grill once.

Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 6:01am

It's not really a "make work" project from the government. Those companies spend over $15 billion a year to send that "Advertising Mail". Of course, that doesn't make receiving all of that junk suck any less.

Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 9:16pm

I once sent back a reenforced prepaid envelope filled with metal washers. Later a friend told me that the P.O. disposes of envelopes/packages like these. No idea if that is accurate though.

Hey Manny the B, it seems like it would make a lot more work for your postman. Has he ever accidently dropped your mail in dog poo and stepped on it before putting it in your mail box?

Posted: Apr 18, 2012 - 12:26am

@manbird: libertine.....LIBERTINE!!!!

Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 11:54pm

Take a postage-paid return envelope from your most pervasive junk mailer piece (Geico maybe?) and tape it to a box with a brick in it and mail it back to them: Operation JUNK MAIL GET BACK AT! I sent back a few muddy, water logged 2 x 4s - because I didn't have any bricks. And you also help support your USPO!

Posted: Apr 17, 2012 - 10:59am

@manbird: I don't understand. Please explain.. {#Stupid}

(I don't do fb)

Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 9:10pm

This is my way of supporting the post office and getting back at junk mailers:

Operation JUNK MAIL GET BACK AT

Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 4:13pm

To PP ... Get a change of address form from the USPS and have this man's address changed to Aetna's address, whatever the return address is or 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Wash, DC or whatever. That should take care of all his mail, once and for all.

Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 12:13pm

For almost 10 years now I've been getting mail from Aetna for a man I have never heard of and never lived in this house. The house I live in was built for my grandmother. For years now I've been sending it back and my "not at this address" message is getting less polite. I even called once to try to get this guy's mail to stop coming here.......ready....they couldn't help me because I don't know where this man used to work??!!! How can I know that if I don't know him???
So today, there is a single letter on the box. " NEVER LIVED HERE....all future mail delivered here for X.XXX will be disposed of as trash.
Aetna is an insurance company usually associated with work related insurance. My dad had Aetna as a supplemental ins. I assume this man's SSN is in these envelopes. Who knows what else...???
Rant over.

Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 8:35am

Most of the time I feel like my job is not much different from the mail carriers'. Just with less walking.

Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 8:33am

There is some kind of 'no junk mail' list you sign up for. It won't eliminate the crap entirely, but it can make a difference. I'll try to find the info.

You have to do it in 3 different places:
www.dmachoice.org
www.donotcall.gov
www.optoutprescreen.com

Posted: Apr 15, 2012 - 12:39am

Our postgal (she bats for Leslie's team) is a saint. A dream. I love her. Her name is Holly.

But our community puts recycling bins right next to the gang mailboxes.

So it's all good. Until some Neanderthal uses the recycle bin for dog poop.

And yes, it happens.

Posted: Apr 14, 2012 - 7:41am

I'm with Leslie, she didnt exactly say this, but I think I'd be even more angry at the mail if I didn't have a blue bin to put it in. Of course, this IS Philly. It may still end up in a landfill. But, at least I sorted it......

Posted: Apr 14, 2012 - 6:25am

And by proxy neither would I. {#Arrowd}

Oh and yes, USPS is NOT a government agency they are a free market business hampered by government intervention. In essence they are getting screwed from both sides. {#Sad}

Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 11:10pm

You feel sorry for the postman? He probably wouldn't have a job if there weren't so much commercial mail to deliver.

Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 8:11pm

Your city doesn't pick up recycled paper? I can't imagine putting anything into the garbage that I can recycle. Maybe it's a California thing.

Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 8:02pm

We're in disagreement—I think this is a *great* time for the government to make some work—but in either case the USPS is "US" in name only. It's not a government agency. As for the junk mail, they ought to raise the rates on THAT crap to a point where the USPS budget is in the black, and also there is less of that crap. Win-win.

Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 1:11pm

@manbird...quite true. Its kind of like Sysiphus, pushing the rock up the hill for no reason. I wouldn't call it a fulfilling career choice.

I know this might not be popular right now, but I don't think the US government should be in the "make work" business.

Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 12:39pm

I'm sure they're grateful for without all that garbage they would be unemployed.

Posted: Apr 13, 2012 - 12:31pm

I know it is considered protected speech under the First Amendment, but I sometimes wonder about that interpretation from the standpoint that the speech comes in the form of this barrage of unwanted mail that is entering and intruding upon the privacy of one's home.

I often pick it up in mass and toss it, based on cursory inspection, only to find at some later point in time that I managed to throw away somethng that I actually needed.