Return To Sender

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am getting tired of opening my mailbox every day and pulling out a stack of credit card offers. Not just one or two, but a stack! It's ridiculous and unwarranted.

Think about this for a minute: We have to pay to have the junk mail recycled or hauled off as garbage. These companies are spending our money for us!

I've tried calling each company and asking them to kindly take me off their mailing lists. Companies have to take you off their mailing list if you request it.

I still get the junk mail. Of course that's because my name, along with yours is sold from one company to another. There is lots of money to be made selling mailing lists. Today you may request to have your name removed from a list, but it can show back up on another tomorrow. It's a vicious cycle.

Imagine the millions of dollars that are spent marketing this stuff. Perhaps I should buy a rubber stamp that says, "RETURN TO SENDER". Maybe if the perpetrators started getting their unwanted solicitations back in return mail they'd stop sending it to begin with and wasting their money - and mine!  But that's doubtful.

Perhaps if the post office had to deliver it back they'd take a closer look and appeal to the government for some kind of direction in the form of a law banning such garbage. That's doubtful too.

The Internet hasn't been around long at all and already there are spam controls filtering out unwanted junk mail. People are even being arrested for sending spam via the Internet! 

The post office has been around for a long, long time.  When are they going to figure out a spam control? But then there is big money to be made on the postage, so that probably isn't going to happen any time too soon either.