Understandable to want to shoot the messenger, I hate junk mail too. But in all fairness, it's not the fault of the post office. They're not the ones sending you the mail, and if someone pays the postage for it they are required by law to deliver it.
Oddly enough the amount of junk mail I receive seems to have dwindled since I started getting 99% of my bills, statements, and other legitimate correspondence via email only. Maybe because so much of the junk mail I got was from places I already do business with trying to upsell me on their services. Once everything went to email with those places, I had the option to opt out of their marketing stuff so I don't get it via email and I'm no longer on their snail mail list.
FWIW I'd gladly settle for a bit more junk mail every week in my mailbox if it meant no more telemarketing phone calls. I'm on the Do Not Call Registry, unfortunately that doesn't stop the cable company calling several times a week trying to sell me their crappy internet/phone service, and the people running total scams don't care about the law so it doesn't stop them either. Neither, apparently, do shady collection agencies or the "marketing survey" people. Thank heavens for Caller ID.
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