[fn-mote]

Junk mail is a net positive for postal service revenue. Even if you could eliminate it (major free speech concern), would it be a good idea? Who would pay extra when the can just throw out the junk in less than 2 minutes a week?

[eru]

A privatised postal service could capture this as well to finance rural delivery.

[8note]

im uninterested in having to pay for said waste, and have to figure out whether the junk is recyclable or not

its not just paper - all kinds of strange plastics too

when i was in the states i despised that i was required to accept said junk mail under penalty of law and i think thats also a free speech concern. i have the right to not be part of an audience

[limagnolia]

I'm not sure that there is any law forcing you to accept it, but if you have a mailbox, it will get put into it. I don't think there is any law requiring anyone to have a mailbox, though.