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[smoochy]

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@Q-Checker wrote:

For those who want to reduce the amount of junk mail they receive, Google non-profit Catalog Choice, Years ago I signed up with them and my junk mail dropped significantly. As I recall, there is no fee but they welcome donations.

What now stuffs my mailbox are charity solicitations. Once you give, some charities send repeated solicitations adnauseum, not to mention that many sell your contact information. Very few, in my experience, give the option to opt out of solicitations after one makes an intended annual donation. Lately, thankfully, more charities are giving donors the choice to decline the passing  of their name and contact information to other charities. I am overwhelmed with solicitations and cannot afford to give to all of them.

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you are so right about the charities. It's overwhelming to the point that I don't want to give to any of them. 

The other junk mail we get by the boatload is invitations to free lunches that will include sales pitches for cremation companies, assisted living facilities, financial investing. 

No thanks.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@cjm61 wrote:

@just bee @tiny 2 

Two of my family members are retired from the USPS. I mentioned to them once about getting way too much junk mail. They said that is what keeps the USPS in business.

God help us, at least in my area, if USPS takes over delivering just packages. Our local carrier is one of the worst. I just found out yesterday a package I never received states "Delivered Neighbor as Requested". I never requested the item be delivered to a neighbor. I wouldn't even know how to do that and no neighbor has given it to me. Now we have filed a "lost" package. 

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@cjm61   @They CallMe MRWILKES 

I was talking to my mail carrier about the junk mail we get and he said that's what keeps our postage rates down. 

If all the junk mail stopped, our postage rates would triple.  

I had no idea.

[freakygirl]

i sadly had to stop donating to my favorite charities because i guess they share my information, therefore i get an unbelievable amount of solicitations from other organizations. doesn’t matter if i send in my donations by post or online. all that, coupled with junk mail, and it’s just crazy

[UpNorthGorgy]

@freakygirl. I know and all thr return address labels printed for in solicitation mailings for all the mail we send out? Not sending much postpaid stamped mail but get those return labels.

I sometimes receive money anywhere from five cents to a two dollar bill. They have money to send out but want more money?🤔

[jellyBEAN]

There is nothing better than getting a hand-written card or letter in the mail.  People don't write letters anymore, unless its an event that is out of the ordinary, such as a birth or death, etc..

When my brother was in the service he often wrote home to my parents.  They saved his letters and after they passed and I came upon them, I saved them.  I value them very much.  I wouldn't part with them for anything.

Seems like the end of civilization to stop communicating via handwriting and language.  People prefer to text, no longer call.  People walk and stare into their phones.  They film everything in the moment.  Sit at a dinner table with their phones by their side.  I'm old so it rubs me the wrong way.

[CalminHeart]

99% of my mail is junk. I prefer online so my personal info doesn't float all over the country. Having investigated fraud for 20 years, I have multiple security options in place to help protect my online info. 

[willowbark]

I will only pay bills on my laptop with an ethernet cable although a lot of computers now do not come with an ethernet port.  I had to buy an adapter to put in one of my USB ports to plug in my ethernet cable.  

Most people now seem to use their smart phones to pay their bills but I don't want to do that.  It must be very convenient as I see people using their phones to pay for their groceries.  No, to that too. 

I'm not a fan of ecards for birthdays and other occasions., prefer cards by mail but don't have much say in that. 

[wagirl]

I still get mail from the place I adopted my 15 year old cat------

[kaydee50]

We have been having our mail forwarded for the past 3 months.  In all that time we have received less then a dozen pieces of first class mail.  I expect that our mailbox at home will be stuffed with other types of mail.

I agree about the charities.  It is non stop.  I have my favorites which are set up for monthly payments.  The other stuff I just throw out--I do keep the nickels and dimes and sometimes the stamps that haven't been cancelled!  

[They CallMe MRWILKES]

My favorite "freebie" from charities are the note pads.  I constantly make lists and notes so they are welcome.  Some are extremely nice almost "stationary" with my name printed.

I have no use at all for the return address labels, and I always keep the nickel and dimes!