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I sense some family tension there.

My sister works for the post office. I know it pays her salary. In my building, the junk mail that my neighbors get goes straight from the mailbox into the garbage can two feet away. They don't get read and they don't get recycled. They just end up in the landfill.

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Today, I received a Christmas card that was poststamped on December 26, 2007. It was from one of the security guards in my building. She mailed it in Jersey City. She could have saved herself a stamp if she just slip it under my door, and I could have received it on the same day instead of two months later.

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These are great services, but seriously, how do you think the USPS makes their money? Through regular consumers? Nope. They make their money through the companies that send junk mail. I should know, because I used to do junk mail for a living

I joined Green Dimes. (www.greendimes.com). I was just sick of shredding piles of mail, and sick of id theft. For $20 they'll do all of the mass mailing opt-outs for you, and write to eliminate specific catalogs. And they plant trees for each member who joins! Check it out. I joined about 6 months ago, and I've seen a major decrease - almost completely - of junk mail. I have a bad habit of giving out my address - signing up for sweepstakes, etc. But if I start to get junk mail again, I let Green Dimes know, and they take care of it. I think it was worth it for me. It saves me time, it's good for the environment, and as a collateral consequence, yes, I guess it stops our post offices from being overworked so they concentrate on getting the real mail to our homes. (Although I still see mail for other addresses being delivered to our house all the time. That's something Green Dimes probably can't stop.) p.s. As much as I tried to keep this post sounding like an infomercial, I know it does. I'm just enthusiastic. If you're interested in trying it out, PM me your name and I can send you some email where I get a referral bonus. But I'm not in it for the referral, I just really think it's a great service.

Get rid of junk mail, maybe our postal service will improve. If the post office has less junk mail to deliver, hopefully we will get the mail that we are supposed to get.

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