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Monday, August 10, 2009

Green 50 Pounds of Pure Junk

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM

I just got my new IKEA catalogue! The one I didn't want or request, the one that was removed from the front porch and directly dumped into the bottom of my recycle bin. It's annual arrival got me thinking about all the junk mail I receive in a year and I contemplated saving it all in a big pile and weighing it and... oh! Hey! Seattleite Alan Durning over a Sightline just did that!

His write-up of a year's worth of junk mail is pretty funny—15 pounds of phone books? 17 credit card offers from United Airlines? Seven pounds of annoying sales pitches from Qwest, Verizon and Comcast? This shit is ridiculous, but Durning includes action ideas after each item to help channel that frustration into activism.

It would be cool to chronicle Portland's biggest junk mail offenders. I think it must be phone books by far but I can also commiserate with the Comcast deluge.

Two feet tall, 50 pounds deep: one year's worth of junk mail.
  • Alan Durning
  • Two feet tall, 50 pounds deep: one year's worth of junk mail.

 

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I nominate The Oregonian's twice a week paper and plastic straight to the trash/recycling bin worthlessness.
Posted by D on August 10, 2009 at 12:37 PM · Report
2
without junk mail what would the USPS do all day? deliver netflix, bills and ...

it's not in their best interests to setup a do not mail list.
Posted by JoeFrazier on August 10, 2009 at 2:29 PM · Report
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LERN2OPTOUT.
Posted by A CAT, probably on August 10, 2009 at 9:50 PM · Report
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Oh, fuck off all you anti-business asswipes. You buy a fucking magazine and ignore almost all the ads in it and for that you pay $4.95 or something. At least "junk mail" you can ignore for free. Get a brain and use it.
Posted by Amanda Bandana on August 11, 2009 at 1:10 AM · Report

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