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DesMoinesDem

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42. If my email provider got paid by spammers to deliver spam to me

Wed May 28, 2014, 01:00 PM

May 2014

without providing a way to filter it out I would leave them. Unfortunately, I can't stop the USPS from delivering mail to my house. The USPS makes it cheaper for the junk mail spammers to send mail than it is for me to send mail. Charging the spammers the same as they charge everyone else would be a good start to reducing the junk.

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USPS may no longer deliver mail to your door. Thanks, Republicans. [View all] Skidmore May 2014 OP

Killing the postal service step by step liberal N proud May 2014 #1

How is walking to the end of your driveway going to kill the post office? Travis_0004 May 2014 #2

This alone may not seem like much for those who live in sub-divisions and never enjoyed door step liberal N proud May 2014 #5

USPS will still deliver to your door. MohRokTah May 2014 #6

Nope it will not be the same standingtall May 2014 #7

USPS And FedEx don't deliver normal mail. eom MohRokTah May 2014 #9

UPS and FedEx will deliver just about anything standingtall May 2014 #10

Key term: "Pays them." WinkyDink May 2014 #23

Exactly standingtall May 2014 #26

It's funny Lee-Lee May 2014 #25

A lot of my UPS gets transfered to USPS BarbaRosa May 2014 #35

The one thing that UPS & FedEx do not do is a daily delivery. The USPS is still the only one that jwirr May 2014 #28

Another article stated that the elderly and disabled would be exempt Lurks Often May 2014 #11

Oh, right. The three little old ladies on the block will get specialized deliveries. HAHAHA. WinkyDink May 2014 #22

Not everybody has a driveway standingtall May 2014 #12

What makes you think it's "a few"? My mother's entire neighborhood, if not town entirely, is door/ WinkyDink May 2014 #24

What driveway? Gormy Cuss May 2014 #41

I urge all concerned people to join the boycott of Staples KurtNYC May 2014 #3

I think a big part of this TBF May 2014 #4

BINGO. WinkyDink May 2014 #21

You got it~! shanti May 2014 #29

Yes, that would be a better explanation because I am sure that they will need less route walkers if jwirr May 2014 #34

Doesn't matter if it's coming TBF May 2014 #36

Personally Puzzledtraveller May 2014 #8

I understand the distaste for junk mail, but I will tolerate it only because Skidmore May 2014 #14

The junk mail that you hate subsidizes the mail that you love. Orrex May 2014 #17

I don't even understand how they intend to do this starroute May 2014 #13

We are in a very small village which had a post office until Skidmore May 2014 #15

They should make a pile of mail at the geographic center of the country Orrex May 2014 #16

This isn't new- it started years ago Lee-Lee May 2014 #18

There's a 1998 law that provides door delivery for disabled and elderly frazzled May 2014 #19

Yeah this bill is stupid standingtall May 2014 #38

They have always had to fill it out frazzled May 2014 #47

My 89-year-old mother can't make it any further than her porch. WinkyDink May 2014 #20

We have a box at the end of our driveway which means we walk to get our mail. I have seen some jwirr May 2014 #27

we haven't had home delivery for 15 years.... mike_c May 2014 #30

Our nearest post office is Skidmore May 2014 #31

Where do I sign up? DesMoinesDem May 2014 #32

Instead of throwing in the garbage standingtall May 2014 #33

to be fair, the USPS doesn't send any junk mail to you at all.... mike_c May 2014 #40

If my email provider got paid by spammers to deliver spam to me DesMoinesDem May 2014 #42

Making people in the 'burbs get mailboxes would be a great help underpants May 2014 #37

It would be a great help standingtall May 2014 #39

It helps the postman Politicalboi May 2014 #43

Again not everyone has a driveway standingtall May 2014 #46

Why do Republicans want to destroy the best of America? Baitball Blogger May 2014 #44

The ongoing nefarious incremental privatization of our government and country, against the Zorra May 2014 #45