All this recycling, I mean businesses keep shoving things in the letter boxes, we have to depose of packaging and the likes, and it all seems like it is left to us to take care of an issue that we the end user is not causing. Why not put a tax or some charge on excessive packaging, and unnecessary junk mail. I know the cost and how to administer, but the dream is in the right direction.
Remember you are in control.
Just buy a "No Junk Mail" sign for $2 from the local $2 shop to stop unwanted junk mail, and for excessive packaging, unpack it at the shop and just take the product - we've done this a few times when in the van and don't have a yellow recycling bin.
Yes we get junk mail in the guise of community newspapers (from three so called communities), each page is 75% advertising, the last 2/3 of the papers are 100% advertising. These papers are delivered free, so you get them whether you want them or not. I liked it when we were living in Naracoorte SA, and we had to purchase the local paper.
My elderly neighbour put the NO JUNK MAIL on her letterbox. One day she was visiting us when she spotted the DAN MURHPY catalogue. She liked the odd sherry, port, whisky or three.
Wanted to know where I got it.
"In the mailbox."
"Wish someone would put that in my mailbox"
"But it's junk mail and you have a NO JUNK MAIL sign on your letterbox"
"Bugger".
