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Subject: Re: "Un-Mail"
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 09:47:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 09:47:08 1986
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> RE:
> >  How can this un-mail be effectively
> >  controlled?  How is this practice different from simple
> >  littering in the eyes of the law?
> 
> Ah yes, one of my favorite problems, which seem to have no easy answer.
> What bothers me is that the US PO should be able to tell me who may or may
> not use my mail-box.  Well, ok, there are a few good arguments for that
> set-up (don't anyone waste any time to follow-up or mail me with those),
> but everyone in this country seems to think that has to be that way - it
> doesn't and works well diffently in other countries.
> 
> One solution to avoid wet newspapers and clutter in my yard was a second
> mail-box *NOT UNDER P.O. RESTRICTIONS* - now the only problem is how to get
> those folks to use them!!  The newspaperboy, of course, would have to spend
> a lot more time to put the paper into my box, rather than just throwing it in
> the yard .... and I sympathize with the *little man* at the end of the
> distribution channel.  I guess, maybe in the suburbs with "here a house, there
> another" density, I'll never convince them, short of a city-ordinance *with
> teeth and bite*;  but in high-density housing like condos or townhouses
> with central mail-boxes, maybe a second set of "non-mail"-boxes would work.
> 
> ---Werner


The "un-mail box" is available at all of your local stores (it goes by
the name of "trash can") and should be installed under your mail box.
You should also relabel it to read "occupant and resident".  This "un-mail"
box is then emptied once a week and provides enough paper to heat your house
for the following week during the coldest winter (if you live in really 
cold climates, you may want to get on a few more junk mail lists).
This is the ideal solution - the senders are happy, they have reached you,
and you are happy 'cause your heating is now free (the only problem is
you don't dare go on vacation!).

If only I could figure out an answering machine for my mailbox!


										Mikey