Today's Peeve Of The Day, Tuesday 15th February. (house, letter, street)

[Jezer]

Good morning posters.

Let me try this one out on you. We have our mail delivered to the house and put through a letter box but in the US we had it delivered to a mailbox along the street.

Either way my peeve is

Unsolicited mail.

I hope that didn't get lost in translation.

[bjh]

We call it junk mail.

Waste of paper and ink.

[Jezer]

Of course- junk mail! Thanks.

The term is also used over here.

[Gue]

We get a lot of junk mail from local politicians around election time.

Right in the garbage.

[country pride]

I hate having to go all the way to the end of the block just to check mail, and like the rural or doorstep mailboxes. Thankfully where we live, its a rural, not a 'community' bunch of mailboxes at the corner.
Junk mail goes into a big hole in the back yard where it gets burned and buried.

[Lucky Lady123]

We get ALOT of junk mail which gets shredded right away. What a waste of paper and money spent to print and mail out.

[ylisa7]

Shh... saying junk mail was taboo in my house growing up, lol. My father had a marketing company and businesses hired him to do the master lists for the people they wanted junk mail sent to depending on the criteria Data banks are a scary thing and that was 20 years ago. I can't imagine what information is out there about each and every one of us.

But yeah...if I didn't ask for it, I hate getting it.

[JustJoy]

We have a way of dealing with it in Panama: It's called no street addresses or mailboxes

[nan5623]

It is irritating. I give to a local organization every Tgiving and Christmas. THEN, get bombarded ALL year for this or that from them. I put return to sender on the envelopes.

[Cunucu Beach]

This is a problem with email accounts, too. I just closed a gmail account because I was getting about 1000 pieces of email junk mail into it every month.

As for the snail mail junk--if you order anything by mail, your address is sold to mass mailers. I order seeds and clothing from catalogs and get countless seed and clothing catalogs in the mail. The paper mail can be recycled. Too bad the email junk can't.