If we are suppose to be living in a "paperless" society" (or moving towards it), how come I still have so much

Question

paper in my house? No matter how much I shred, throw away or recycle, cut off newspaper service, etc., I still have too much paper! Do you have this problem?

Yeah William, go figure!

Answer 1

Yes, I do. The paper just accumulates in my house. I put the junk mail in the recycling and trash and it just recycles itself
right back into the mailbox. If we could eliminate junk mail, that would really help. Sometimes you do want a written record of stuff, but enough is enough. Computers don't
help with this problem much because you print out what
is online, thereby adding to the paper glut. It's like a vicious
circle.

Answer 2

I spent the entire day on Sunday filing papers that were here there and everywhere. There are still papers all around. I am afraid to throw some of the important ones out. What if I get audited for the year 2000? Then what? Yes. We get throw aways on the drive way. So we throw them away. Junk mail? It's junk so we throw it away. Too many things to waste our time.

Answer 3

Yes, I do. Although everything is computerized, you still have to have the paper work to back it up. The mail delivery keeps getting later because there is so much junk mail, I can't get rid of it all. I wish there was a 'do not mail' list like the 'do not call' one, but many of the ones I get are from charities anyway. I could never live long enough to use all the address labels I get, in a time when I rarely mail anything.

Answer 4

It's going to take a very long time to become a fully paperless society if ever. There are small things you can do in your personal life to cut down on the amount of paper you encounter. Pay your bills online and getting bank statements emailed to you are two ways to cut down your paper mail really quickly.
It's going to be a lot easier to cut paper out of your personal life than it will be to cut paper out of the business world.

Answer 5

Well we sure aren't paperless yet. I don't think we ever will be. How would they send all of those darn catalogs to me without paper? All of this junk mail? So many products are packaged in paper or cardboard. It's not going to happen. I think there are talking about paperless money. All plastic.

Answer 6

Since the computer information age, keeping track is easier, causing more paper. I had a friend that ran a trucking business that eliminated paper. Anything that came in was scanned, then networked to all of the computers. He did this in the '90's. He was ahead of his time. He linked this to all 50 states.

Answer 7

Had to laugh....read your question just after I had gone out to get the mail. Now I've got a pile again! And the Christmas catalogs are started to come already. Somehow I'm on just about everyone's list. Geesh, are you sure about this "paperless" society thing???

Answer 8

Every day when I go out to the mail box, I bring back an armload of mail. Most is junk.
I'm so glad we have recycling
bins here. Our local county dump has received orders from the state to decrease landfill by 50% by (forgot date). It's not working and soon the dump
could be fined $10,000/day.
And still most people are not
recycling.

Answer 9

Yeah, we have more paper than ever. And we all have computers which were supposed to eliminate a lot of paperwork, so we buy paper by the ream to print out stuff we see on the computer.

Answer 10

The shredded junk mail makes good mulch for the garden. It can also be composted.
And I still have enough left over for an occasional bonfire.

I don't complain because it creates a good job for my grandson, A postal carrier.