Five Percent: Conserve Energy

Credit again to Ideal Bite: stop junk mail! I am sure the statistics on junk mail are staggering — I know that after Thanksgiving our poor letter carrier (f.k.a “postman”) was staggering around delivering sometimes twenty or thirty catalogs to our door in a day … and down the street, and across town and over the entire country.

The horror of junk mail is far from limited to the holidays (f.k.a “Christmas”). Every day when I bring in the mail, I rifle through the scores of catalogs and flyers and cards, and letters and solicitations just to find the things I need. Easily 90% of every day’s mail goes directly into the recycle bag. (more…)

We probably get 5 or 10 catalogs every day in the mail, and several times a week an advertising newspaper. We get some magazines, most of which we actually read, but the junk is unbelievable. We make such a fuss about phone and email spam and have passed legislation in both cases to prevent it, yet both are nearly costless compared to postal spam!

I can add my phone number to the “do not call” list, and I can unsubscribe to most email spam (or at least filter it out pretty effectively). I would think it would be to everyone’s benefit to make it easy to cancel the catalogs. (more…)