Junk Mail - How many people actually like it?

Question

With all the controversy about global warming and this being earth day,
I think a small contribution to preventing it, or at least keeping the earth clean is to stop junk mail.
We have internet for those who like junk mail.
I see no need for Junk Snail Mail.

It occupies over 80% of my mail and goes straight to the trash.
I would like to do a study about how much people actually appreciate Junk mail and the landfill space it occupies.

Thanks for your support,

Answer 1

I know a guy who takes his junk mail and rolls it up into logs and then uses the logs to start fires in his wood burning furnace. His friends give him their junk mail so that he always has plenty of "logs" to get his furnace going.

Answer 2

other than the amusement of how much larger I can make my penis (do you have to have one to make it three inches larger?) or how many girls are waiting for me (just how long WILL they wait before they go home?) that I get out of my junk mail folder in my email, I see no point to junk mail in either form. Like you said, it's a waste of paper, and most people do end up trashing it. However, if you have a fireplace, it's good to have a paper grocery bag stashed somewhere nearby to keep it for kindling. It also makes good packing materials for when you move or have things shipped.

For the record, if you do not send this post to fifty people in at least three different countries in the next ten seconds, your computer will explode, your car will turn hot pink, your significant other will develop a hideous blemish above his/her left eye that will stay there for three weeks, and you will inexplicably develop a weird rash on your second knuckle of your right pinky. Oops, too late!

Answer 3

One of these days, I think I will save up a bunch of junk mail. Then send it COD back to the people that sent it out with a letter telling them to knock it off.

If I want to buy something, I am certain I can find it with out their advertisement. It apparently still pays or a business would not do it.

Answer 4

I like junk mail!
what they should do is make it mandatory for all junk mail to be printed on recycled paper.
Remember just because we have a computer that doesn't mean everyone has access to one or can use it so there is a need for paper junk mail.

Answer 5

Thank you for bringing that up. It's shameful how much paper is wasted on endless fliers--often from the same 6 or 7 companies. It drives me crazy.

I really want to say something sarcastic and possibly witty here about witches on bandwagons, but nothing is coming to me at the moment



Oh well.

Bye.

Answer 6

I am so glad you brought this up. I am with you 100%.

Junk mail is practically postage free, while real mail cost more and more every time you turn around.

Lots of them can even afford to use glossy. What a wretched waste!

Answer 7

I really don't get too much of it. Just don't give out your address anywhere on the internet, or especially don't sign up for a chance to win anything anywhere. That's mostly where it all comes from. We've asked the credit card companies to stop sending us stuff, but then never do.

Answer 8

in no way, because of the fact as quickly as you open unsolicited mail the sender thinks you're attracted to what they could desire to assert. I pull up the folder to confirm some thing wasn't sent there by mistake then "empty" the whole element.

Answer 9

we get so much junk mail that we can wall paper our living room ! youre so right,instead of keeping our resources pristene and neat we are going backwards and polluting everything from throwing empty soda cans to littering our parks with papers and dirty diapers! yuck! my sil works for the department of enviromental protection. rubberstampr

Answer 10

Ode to Junque Mail

Ahh you enter my inbox and mailbox
uninvited
Yet your presence lets me know I've loved
uninvited
And your waste of resources, time, and money tells me, ever so sweetly... I'm worth it.
...uninvited.
I shall create a special trash can for you, and buy
a shredder
So I may fit more junque mail into one container.