Greener Mail Initiative?

[GoldenRivet]

First and foremost... i do care for the environment but im NOT one of these hug a tree yuppies.

But let me start this story at the beginning.

I dont know about you guys, but every delivery day i walk to the end of the walkway to my mailbox and i collect my daily mail.

Sometimes there is a bill or two

sometimes there is an invitation to some friend's party, wedding or other event.

sometimes there might even be a letter.

but EVERY TIME there is junk

and the junk mail to relevant mail ratio is about 5:1 on a slow day.

There must be a factory somewhere churning out millions of tons of this junk anew every day. Credit card offers, cruise line offers, airline offers, coupons, advertisments. its literally enough to make me want to cement over my mail box door!

generally, this junk mail tends to be discarded to its designated place on the table until the wife and i have time to sort through it and determine what is relevant and whats not at the end of the week.

i kid you not... i just finished shredding a large garbage bag FULL of junk mail. seems like a huge waste! i know that some of you say "recycle it" but lets set that aside for a moment.

why recycle it? why not just do away with it altogether?

shouldnt we have some sort of law against this crap? shouldnt it be illegal to print millions of tons of superfluous crap and mail it... annoyingly to individual households?

we have the national DO NOT CALL registry. shouldnt we have a national DO NOT MAIL registry?

just annoying

and just my .02