Sat, 21 Oct 2006
I think I've figured out how to stop receiving junk snail mail. Unlike Kramer's method to
stop the intrusions into his mailbox by the Pottery Barn catalog, which required
that he fill his mailbox
with bricks, this method keeps the legitimate mail coming. In fact, you
probably will still receive Pottery Barn catalogs, but I'm mostly concerned
with stopping all of the newsprint advertisements that get shoved in my
mailbox. I don't want the ads from Ralphs, Albertsons, Vons, Jons, Food4Less
or Vallarta Supermarkets.
The trick is to leave the junk mail in the mailbox. Only take the real mail
out. Then, when the postal worker comes to deliver more mail, there's not
enough room for more junk. I've only been doing this for about a week, but it
seems to work. The junk mail is folded vertically, and the real mail is also
placed within the protective shield of junk. I simply remove the envelopes in
the center and leave the undesirable outer crust. I'm thinking about stapling
all the junk together to make for easy removal and reinsertion, and to prevent
the possibility of real mail sneaking in between.
Updates: This passive-aggressive attempt to stop junk mail was
unsuccessful, but you can join the fight to stop junk mail by
refusing delivery of it. The struggle continues.
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