USPS is Spamming my mail box
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 19:23Spamming is very well known word in the online world. Everybody in the world who has an email account suffered due to Email Spamming. Wikipedia describes spamming as “Spamming is the use of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages to someone in bulk. While its definition is usually limited to indiscriminate bulk mailing and not any targeted marketing, the term “spam” can refer to any commercially oriented, unsolicited bulk mailing perceived as being excessive and undesired”. And there are so many laws around it to protect innocent victims.
Well, in the plain old world, USPS, the United States Postal Service does a lot of this by dumping so many advertisements and booklets like Valpak coupon books each and everyday. Every day, every american served by USPS has to suffer because of this spamming. Why this spamming of your mail boxes is allowed?
Is there any way, I can prevent this from happenning? Any help?
Marsha Rose says:
December 15th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
I’d like to apologize for the amount of “spam” the Postal Service delivers to you-but, don’t get mad at your Post Office. We only deliver what is mailed to you-we do not create the pieces of mail, nor can we decide not deliver what is mailed.
I, too, receive many pieces of mail I don’t ask for-as I do telephone calls asking me to re-finance my home-but these calls are not the phone companies’ fault.
If you have any postal related questions, please contact me.
Marsha Rose, Postmaster, Gunnison, CO
Murali says:
December 20th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
Thank you Marsha for your response. But I can’t agree that USPS is at no fault for the spam.
If a mail is addressed to me and USPS delivers it, I don’t have any problem. Most people can deal with it. What about so many advertisements, booklets, coupons received that are addressed to “current resident at xxx”. Why USPS delivers this kind of unsolicited mails to residents?.
Yahoo does not deliver emails addressed to everyone at yahoo dot com. Not only that, Yahoo also blocks automatically mails with specific content though they are addressed to specific addresses. It allows users to mark a mail as a spam and block further emails from a given email ID.
Why USPS can’t block mails that do not have specific address with your name on it.