News, Post office posts $1 billion loss.

[PeterRabbit]

You can write "refused" on any mail you don't want and drop it in a mailbox. They don't return bulk rate mail to the sender and just throw it out

There is a list of ad agencies/mass mailer companies somewhere on the web and you send them an email and a ton of it stops coming. I've had no success with the PennySaver but that's about all I get now since my cease and desist emails took effect. When buying online tell the seller if you start getting new junk mail you will stop doing business with them.

I thought I heard or read several years ago that the post office was the only govt. agency to operate at a profit.

[Wild Style]

Originally Posted by John1960

WASHINGTON—The Postal Service had a net loss of more than a billion dollars in the third quarter of the fiscal year, the agency said Wednesday.

For the quarter ended June 30, the loss was $1.1 billion, which officials blamed on reduced mail volume in the slowed economy, coupled with rapidly rising transport costs because of high fuel prices.

Post office posts $1 billion loss - Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/08/06/post_office_posts_1_billion_loss/ - broken link)

they should have added scanners and emails to the list of whys

[maxinatlanta]

Thanks for the post. You can also sign do not mail petition ( like Do Not Call National Petition) I did some search online and this is the best resource so far available online ( correct me if I am wrong). I have done this 5 months ago and my mailbox is literally empty ( I have paperless billing and also opted out from various mail lists) I check my mail twice a month now. It is beautiful. ( What a freedom). I even took the letter from samples provided and wrote it to a local Chinese restaurant that keeps putting fliers in my door. They stopped too in the whole subdivision. Save the time for yourself. Awakening - Stop Junk Mail I even opted out from the yellow book. What do I need it for, since the internet is right here.

[texdav]

In the edn the post office makes alot of money on mass ads;that is why they do it. They have loss alot of the first class business and the package delivery business. There is a chance that we could lose the USPS as we know it in the future but congress would probably save it as so many depend on it stillas no po0ther will take the type they will deliver as it doiesn't make enough money.