[tptacek]

Speaking for a family of four in Chicago: the amount of crap mail we get is a constant chore, and we regularly miss important things amidst the piles of upsell offers from the banks that own our mortgage, or the dealership that sold us a car, or the store we mail-ordered a pan from once, &c.

I think you're wrong about the appeal of this service. I wish we had something like it here.

Also, "laziness"? What does that even mean? There's a finite number of minutes in every day. Make a case for why I should spend any of those minutes dealing with paper mail. How many other goods and services do you use that we could interrogate as a facilitator of "laziness"?

[timjahn]

Speaking for a family of three in Chicago, we get a lot of crap mail as well. Really, it's all we get.

But: a) my 3 year old has fun grabbing it out of the box and pretending it's from various people. b) it takes literally a few seconds to just throw it out.

Now, if we were getting so much junk mail that it was making us miss our actual, important mail, that'd be a problem.

But we don't get any actual, important mail. It's 99% junk.

Anywho. The Postal Service is going to disappear in my 3 year old's lifetime anyway.