Comments on: How to reduce junk mail http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/06/02/how-to-reduce-junk-mail/ Raising Green Consciousness since 2002 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:31:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tony Attwood http://www.ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/06/02/how-to-reduce-junk-mail/#comment-17367 Tony Attwood Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:45:38 +0000 http://ecostreet.com/blog/sustainable-lifestyle/2007/06/02/how-to-reduce-junk-mail/#comment-17367 If the postman looks tired he/she should be reprimanded. The reality is that if there were no junk mail the price of posting a regular second class letter would be £1.45. The reason is that the only part of Royal Mail that makes money is bulk mail - so if the postman is getting fed up he/she is getting fed up with the thing that pays the salary. Of course we can cut junk mail but the main effect will be to throw the postal service into disarray, put up mail prices (not much good for the elderly who haven't gone over to email) and have around 145,000 people at the very least unemployed. Of course there is an alternative - which you will have seen in the serious science magazines of late. If we simply put our resources into paying countries with rainforests not to allow the rainforests to be cut down, the whole global warming problem would be fixed in a single go. It would cost - but it would save the planet. Tony Attwood If the postman looks tired he/she should be reprimanded. The reality is that if there were no junk mail the price of posting a regular second class letter would be £1.45. The reason is that the only part of Royal Mail that makes money is bulk mail - so if the postman is getting fed up he/she is getting fed up with the thing that pays the salary. Of course we can cut junk mail but the main effect will be to throw the postal service into disarray, put up mail prices (not much good for the elderly who haven’t gone over to email) and have around 145,000 people at the very least unemployed.

Of course there is an alternative - which you will have seen in the serious science magazines of late. If we simply put our resources into paying countries with rainforests not to allow the rainforests to be cut down, the whole global warming problem would be fixed in a single go. It would cost - but it would save the planet.

Tony Attwood

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