Pleasing to Remember: Mailing dining room tables:
“I’ve mailed a manilla envelope to the US Postal Office Prohibitory Order Processing Center every Friday for the past two months. Since I started using Form 1500 (PDF Document), the sheer weight of junk mail I have been receiving has been dropping. “
The poster has done the math[tm] and has determined that just one ad supplement a week represents 1,135 4 x 4 x 8 cords of wood or 13,620 dining room sets every week. That doesn’t cover the ink (not soy-based or otherwise environmentally friendly), nor does it factor in the energy used to print and deliver the stuff.
A cord of wood, as an energy source, contains 18 – 24 million BTUs ,180 – 240 therms of natural gas, or 52,739 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Is junk mail the best use we can make of these resources?
and if you’re concerned that the Form 1500’s provisions about objectionable material don’t apply,
I have prohibitory orders against Home Depot, Sears, and the Northshore Vision Clinic, to name a few. The law lets you decide what’s “sexually explicit”.
Anything with a $ can be deemed sexually explicit by the law.
I think a sympathetic postmaster might be required as well, but you never know ’til you ask.
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[Posted with ecto]