"Why would USPS do that ?"
About 80% of the mail in my mailbox is junkmail. Someone is paying to send that. It seems pretty obvious why the USPS wouldn't want to limit junkmail.
About 80% of the mail in my mailbox is junkmail. Someone is paying to send that. It seems pretty obvious why the USPS wouldn't want to limit junkmail.
Spam in your real mail box which even at a quick glace effects:
- waste management resources
- recycling resources
- extra work for USPS (sorting, shipping, delivery)
- extra weight == more gasoline required
- environmental issues (litter, printing chemicals, trees = cut down)
And that is probably just the tip of the ice-berg on actual impact... nope, not an issue, this is how we make money.
I've had a problem with this for years, but there is no way to fix it besides charging the producers of such "mail" an arm and a leg.
Maybe we should push for the death of "Mailbox Neutrality"... or wait, should we support it so they'll kill it off?...
/rant
Edit: source [1] http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/#H1
How so? I'd say that number is actually much higher.
LOADS of what people classify as "spam" is simply stuff they signed up for and forgot about. Just last night a client had someone write in saying "I'm not getting your emails!". After some back and forth they had - 2 days prior - marked it as "spam" because they didn't recognize the name of the list, and so weren't getting any more mails (or, they were getting junked).
You may be able to make an internal distinction between "the spam industry" and "email" but many people can't or don't. Or perhaps more to the point, many people classify spam as "anything I don't like or didn't ask for" (even if, by dint of entering in to a transaction, they do in fact grant permission to get necessary emails now and then).