Physical-Mail Spam
Thanks to software like SpamAssassin, my email inbox only gets around 5-8 spam emails a day and about 99.9999% of that gets caught by Mail’s junk filter.
Unfortunately the USPS has not caught on to using any kind of “junk” filter for their service.
How is it that in the short time the internet has been around, there are already solid solutions for almost completely eliminating junk while the USPS, which has been around for over 200 years, offers no real solution for keeping my mailbox free of crap?
Over 90% of the mail that is in our physical mailbox is pure junk. Unsolicited, useless junk. Sure there are ways to opt-out of some of the things like credit card offers, but the real problem is the “local” unsolicited mail. Things like postcards advertising the new gym down the street or a brochure from the shop nearby that is having a big sale.
All these business have to do is include the line “Current Resident” in the address line and it will always get delivered to your mailbox. The USPS’s policy to allow this crap through the system without offering a way to opt-out is just as criminal as the spammers who send millions of spam email every day.
So, USPS, if the piece of mail doesn’t have my name on it, or even worse just has “Current Resident” as the recipient, don’t deliver it to my mailbox. I don’t want it.
