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0 pointsthayne4y ago0 comments

It's actually worse than that. It isn't blocked because of the sender or recipient, but because of the content. That would be like the postal service reading your mail and deciding that because of an address in the text of a letter, it shouldn't be delivered.

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weeblewobble4y ago

Amusing analogy. The postal service's unwillingness or inability to do just that has severely damaged their utility. If the USPS had a junk-filtering option I'd sign up tonight. Perversely, the postal system seems to embrace junk mail (e.g. if you sign up for address forwarding the USPS sends you a fat envelope full of junk mail as a "confirmation")

thayneOP4y ago

I wouldn't. I mean sure, it would be nice not to get so much junk mail. But I personally don't think it is worth the risk of important mail like bills, tax info, new credit cards, etc. as accidentally getting flagged as spam. It also increases how much you have to trust the postal service.

bogidon4y ago

I like to chime in with this one when possible (due to a deep resentment for credit card offer spam). In case you didn’t know, you can opt out of the credit industry’s vast marketing machinery.

It’s a bit obtuse, as you’d expect from the bureaus, but I am thankful for this bit of regulation: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/prescreened-credit-and...

tomc19854y ago

The USPS will likely not do anything to disrupt one of its largest sources of revenue

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