I live in an apartment building with the usual rows of locked mailboxes in the main entrance. We used to take our mail out and leave the junk on the ledge over the row of mailboxes and then when the people who clean the common areas of the building came in they would toss it in with whatever trash came out of the shared bin in the basement and out it would go.
Then we got a new mailperson who left post-its on our mailboxes with snippy little messages saying that if we took our mail out of the boxes and left it on the ledge to be thrown away, he/she would take it back to the post office and report that mail addressed to the "offender" at our address was "undeliverable" and NO MORE MAIL would be delivered to that person.
Which on the one hand I kinda understand but, sheesh, it WAS junk mail. I have heard that you can write "return to sender, addressee will not accept" or whatever the correct phrase is and the postal worker has to take the mail back - but because it's junk mail and "return delivery" or whatever it's called is not included in the reduced rate that the sender gets for bulk mailings, the post office just pitches it. I won't say I wasn't tempted, lol, especially since when there's a lot of junk on the same day - oversized flyers and "coupon magazines" and weekly store ads - the same postal worker usually just stuffs it all down in the box so that when you open the tenant access door it all falls out on the floor before you can grab it. Which is what mostly ticks me off about it, honestly. I don't mind carrying it in and disposing of it, but I do mind having to juggle everything else I'm carrying in order to bend down and collect a dozen flimsy pieces of crap advertising off the floor.
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