Posted by
Ed Lilly on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:48:52 PM
While sending a much overdue Mother's Day gift yesterday (sorry again, Mom!) with my daughter, I laughed out loud at a hand-written sign posted on one of the bulletin boards at our local post office. Perhaps as part of the USPS effort to be helpful to consumers, and perhaps as part of some of the legislation relating to consumers' ability to take their names off telemarketing and mailing lists, the sign had 2 pieces of information. On the top of the page was an address where people could send letters to have their
removed from credit card solicitation mailing lists. Probably a good thing all in all.
The bottom portion of the page provided an address where one may send a letter to have his or her name removed from "so-called junk mail" lists.
So-called? Well, as we all know:
Well, there
really is no junk-mail...well, everybody wants to get a check or a birthday
card, but it takes just as much man-power to deliver it as
their precious little greeting cards...
As far as I know, there has been no word on a response from Postmaster General Henry Atkins to this potential breach of protocol here in small town New Jersey. Though someone had taken a pencil and lined through the still readable information on taking your name off the list....