Comment Re:postal letter drop (Score 1) 78
What we should do is cut Saturday delivery, put up prices on businesses sending Local postal customer flyers that are not targeted and just the physical equivalent of spam.
Then over time reduce the USPS costs and look at other revenue streams. Honestly I'd pay an annual fee to have no local postal customer letters delivered. If you look into how little these business pay to get inserted into everyone's mail it's actually very small. The citizens are the ones paying crazy postal costs to subsidise the businesses low rates.
Companies like spectrum who spam paper (or in this case plastic) advertising need to go under. I left spectrum (only choice at the time) for google fiber on July 15, since then I've got weekly plastic advertising trying to get me back. People don't want this. Give people a choice on what goes into their letterbox.
Personally I've used all the techniques seen on Reddit to reduce my postal mail. I now only get one or two items a week, have informed digest (which is awesome) and only clear the box weekly unless something important is coming in.