Orange Dot
Mass mailings to Resident / Occupant / Boxholder destroys woodland habitat to provide paper, generates chemical pollution with the pulping and inking processes, and promotes ill considered consumption. These actions compromise the quality of the world we live in and endanger the health of future generations.
If you are concerned about these issues – or simply tired of being forced to receive junk mail and being forced to subsidize it through first class mail rate increases – here is a no risk action you can take which will:
1) Increase the Post Office junk mail costs in every respect in ways they cannot budget for or control.
2) Make the Post Office aware that the hundreds of millions of citizen / customers are more important than the hundreds of thousands of bulk mailers and their mercenary lobbyists.
Simply place an Orange Dot sticky over your mailing address and place the piece of junk mail in a convenient US Post Office mail collection box.
To promote this idea, discuss it with someone who you know would be interested. You may also wish to place an Orange Dot on your vehicle or clothing to help develop a sense of how many of us are out there.
Caution! Do not send a letter with this information through the Post Office mail system as this may activate obscure legal trip wires which could cause trouble for you and PLEASE do not Multi Level Marketing (MLM) relationship spam people or generate your own version of a mass mailing.
The Post Office is a cranky, unresponsive, Orwellian, monopoly bureaucracy and they will need time to figure out that the people who actually pay for the system should be served first.
Be patient. Have fun!
Here are a couple of links which will help you better understand how the Post Office does business.
There is no way the Post Office will allow you to be removed from (the) list!
http://www.ecofuture.org/jmusps.html
The Postal Service insists that first-class users are not being overcharged to subsidize Frederick’s of Hollywood and other advertisers. But according to one U.S.P.S. study, first-class mail provides 68 percent more revenue than its attributable cost, while second-class mail provides 2 percent less than its cost.[55] In the early 1970s, six internal Postal Service audits concluded that first-class users were being over-charged to subsidize other classes.[56] The chief administrative judge of the Postal Rate Commission concluded, “The Postal Service has become a tax-collecting agency collecting money from first-class mailers to distribute to other favored classes.”[57]
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa047.html