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guslMy upstairs neighbor Nick started making "No Unaddressed Mail" plaques, and made it easy for us to stop getting junk mail, by promising to stick a plaque on your mailbox if you write your box number on a sheet of paper. So I replaced my ghetto paper-and-pen sign with a nice plaque. I'm actually surprised this movement didn't happen years earlier, given that I live in possibly the most hippie neighborhood in Canada. (Maybe hippies don't live in apartment buildings?)
I just met my mail carrier, who was absolutely delighted, in part because she has less stuff to carry. She's not allowed to ask people to do this, and said that the Post Office considers admail much more important than regular mail; and that they don't even recycle left-overs, but actually burn them instead. So it sounds like you can go to the post office and pay them to spam a whole neighborhood. I wonder what would happen if one sent a flyer for www.reddotcampaign.ca (how sneaky would it have to be)? Has anyone explored the charge of corruption of a public institution?
Apparently mail carriers have keys to many apartment buildings! Maybe they should be the modern butler.
UPDATE: I just saw Nick again, and 13 out of 36 already have plaques. Not bad for 48 hours. Another resident informed me that the former management removed his red dot, for aesthetic reasons or something!
UPDATE (24 July): 24 out of the 36 have signed up, and all have plaques.
I just met my mail carrier, who was absolutely delighted, in part because she has less stuff to carry. She's not allowed to ask people to do this, and said that the Post Office considers admail much more important than regular mail; and that they don't even recycle left-overs, but actually burn them instead. So it sounds like you can go to the post office and pay them to spam a whole neighborhood. I wonder what would happen if one sent a flyer for www.reddotcampaign.ca (how sneaky would it have to be)? Has anyone explored the charge of corruption of a public institution?
Apparently mail carriers have keys to many apartment buildings! Maybe they should be the modern butler.
UPDATE: I just saw Nick again, and 13 out of 36 already have plaques. Not bad for 48 hours. Another resident informed me that the former management removed his red dot, for aesthetic reasons or something!
UPDATE (24 July): 24 out of the 36 have signed up, and all have plaques.