One of the big problems with the [related] abuse of the mail system is that it is effectively a denial of service attack against legitimate messages. Nearly everything that comes into my mail slot gets binned.
I figure: if somebody cares enough about sending me a slip of paper, they will either send it Fed Ex, or they will email it to me; nobody uses the postal system for anything other than trash.
In fact, I wonder what the legality of literally mailing garbage is. USPS flat-rate boxes are something like $5, and I could fit a lot of apple cores, orange peels, and coffee grounds into one of those things. In fact, my sister is soon due to have a kid. I'd pay to have her mail the dirty diapers to whoever keeps sending me paper spam.
That this is an accepted abuse of the postal system is absurd.
It seems to indicate that unless it's for a medical reason (and labelled accordingly?) you're not allowed to send human or animal feces, so the diaper idea is out.
Other garbage would depend on the risk of the actual garbage. Empty containers and so on is likely to be fine. Rotting organic material could be iffy.
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One of the big problems with the [related] abuse of the mail system is that it is effectively a denial of service attack against legitimate messages. Nearly everything that comes into my mail slot gets binned.
I figure: if somebody cares enough about sending me a slip of paper, they will either send it Fed Ex, or they will email it to me; nobody uses the postal system for anything other than trash.
In fact, I wonder what the legality of literally mailing garbage is. USPS flat-rate boxes are something like $5, and I could fit a lot of apple cores, orange peels, and coffee grounds into one of those things. In fact, my sister is soon due to have a kid. I'd pay to have her mail the dirty diapers to whoever keeps sending me paper spam.
That this is an accepted abuse of the postal system is absurd.
http://pe.usps.com/Archive/HTML/DMMArchive0810/C023.htm
It seems to indicate that unless it's for a medical reason (and labelled accordingly?) you're not allowed to send human or animal feces, so the diaper idea is out.
Other garbage would depend on the risk of the actual garbage. Empty containers and so on is likely to be fine. Rotting organic material could be iffy.