Walking Papers

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Spam

While laws and technology have made giant strides in recent years to cut down on email Spam, it seems like the good ol' United States Postal Service is delivering more printed Spam than ever before.

I mean, when was the time you actually received a letter from a friend? Even most bills are electronic now. Yet every day I come home to a full mailbox. It's practically like getting the Sunday paper crammed in my mailbox on a daily basis, sans the news.

Who even needs snail mail anymore? But there's no way to turn it off. The advertisers keep sending and sending, and the USPS keeps delivering. You'd think a law would pass against this wasteful practice. But it won't. If we stop the junk mail, we'll put the USPS out of business.

Maybe I'll just pull the mailbox off my house and see what happens.