So called ‘Junk Mail’ provides the bulk of the operating revenue of the Postal Service. Without it, there would be No Postal Service. This came about in the 1970 when Congress reorganized the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the independent United States Postal Service, creating a government bureaucracy. In 1084 Congress removed the Civil Service from the Postal Service creating a work force without a decent retirement package (except for the Postmaster General and the Postal Board of Governors of course).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
stlmaddog5: And immediately thereafter threw a half million dollar retirement party for the retiring Postmaster General and required them to internally fund the retirement fund for the next 75 years, thereby insuring no cost effectiveness for the foreseeable future.
Junk mail is adverts that the US post office delivers (IIRC it is against the law for anybody else to put stuff in the mailbox). It usually consists of worthlessness from the ilk of insurance companies, vinyl siding installers, politicians and charities that put 80% of their proceeds into fundraising.With the occasional set of coupons with pictures of impossibly beautiful pizzas and burgers.
zippycats: In Canada, it is the opposite. You have free mail to your MP at their Ottawa office, but they have to buy stamps to lobby you..At one time (New Deal), the exchange of ideas was considered so important that newspapers and magazines, as well as communication between authors and publishers, got a reduced rate in their work. Now it is only bulk advertising that is considered that important. In Canada, publishers could send material to authors at reduced rates, but authors had to pay full rate. It was cheaper for me to drive from Vancouver to Blaine to mail even a magazine manuscript to a Canadian publisher.
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
The USJMPS. Wow.
Miny Boy almost 9 years ago
90’s Kid?
JayBluE almost 9 years ago
“Junk Mail”: The one time you wished they’d reconsider the whole “through rain, snow…” bit…
stlmaddog5 almost 9 years ago
So called ‘Junk Mail’ provides the bulk of the operating revenue of the Postal Service. Without it, there would be No Postal Service. This came about in the 1970 when Congress reorganized the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the independent United States Postal Service, creating a government bureaucracy. In 1084 Congress removed the Civil Service from the Postal Service creating a work force without a decent retirement package (except for the Postmaster General and the Postal Board of Governors of course).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
stlmaddog5: And immediately thereafter threw a half million dollar retirement party for the retiring Postmaster General and required them to internally fund the retirement fund for the next 75 years, thereby insuring no cost effectiveness for the foreseeable future.
tired-one almost 9 years ago
Junk mail is adverts that the US post office delivers (IIRC it is against the law for anybody else to put stuff in the mailbox). It usually consists of worthlessness from the ilk of insurance companies, vinyl siding installers, politicians and charities that put 80% of their proceeds into fundraising.With the occasional set of coupons with pictures of impossibly beautiful pizzas and burgers.
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
zippycats: In Canada, it is the opposite. You have free mail to your MP at their Ottawa office, but they have to buy stamps to lobby you..At one time (New Deal), the exchange of ideas was considered so important that newspapers and magazines, as well as communication between authors and publishers, got a reduced rate in their work. Now it is only bulk advertising that is considered that important. In Canada, publishers could send material to authors at reduced rates, but authors had to pay full rate. It was cheaper for me to drive from Vancouver to Blaine to mail even a magazine manuscript to a Canadian publisher.