Doing it that way, you realize that an entire tree was slaughtered for mail no one wants to read. It is sad. We usually use ours as fire starter in our wood stove. Might as well let that tree warm us.
I don’t like leaving my name and address on things. I usually grind up that part. I just need a bigger black magic marker to block that stuff off, I guess.
Thanks, Mahdi! I actually got rid of some of it yesterday, but the pile is still quite high. I ‘ll need a new bag to hold any more junk mail, or I have to go dump the full one.
I am still a beginner who only gets inspiration from other people's words. Maybe one day I will be able to write poetry for poetry sake. Until then, I honor you and other people's poems with my clumsy attempt of a response.
I get all of the ones you mentioned, Carole, plus the political adverts from local, state, and national organizations that I don’t support and for whose policies I would never vote.
Isn’t it incredible how easily we are manipulated into opening that Valpak envelope! God forbid we toss a 1 in 50,000 chance of finding a hundred dollar check into the trash.
It’s good that the church next to me has a paper recycler bin, at least. At the moment, I’ve got a full bag to go over there, plus a huge stack yet to deal with.
I loathe junk mail! It sucks too many moments from my day which could be better spent doing something, everything, or anything else!
Yup. Now on my second bag for recycling. Total waste of time, so I let it pile up and dispose of all at once.
Doing it that way, you realize that an entire tree was slaughtered for mail no one wants to read. It is sad. We usually use ours as fire starter in our wood stove. Might as well let that tree warm us.
Straight into the recycling bag for paper!
I don’t like leaving my name and address on things. I usually grind up that part. I just need a bigger black magic marker to block that stuff off, I guess.
Brilliant!
Thanks, Mahdi! I actually got rid of some of it yesterday, but the pile is still quite high. I ‘ll need a new bag to hold any more junk mail, or I have to go dump the full one.
Thank you for your feedback and kind words
It is sad to see the dying of the post office.
It was built to last except no one still writes us.
There are no letters to read from family or a friend.
No more letters to write or their need to send.
The only thing left for the lonely post office clerks to do.
Is send us bills for services or notice of rent that is due.
We no longer wait for the mailman each day.
To bring us letters from loved ones so far away.
We do not write words of love or encouragement be read.
We receive words by email or whatsapp messager instead.
Writing letters is a lost art of the past generations.
The young don't have time to write or the patience.
The young hurry to much to sit down with pen & paper.
So there are no letters to write or to send someone later.
The Post office still operates with services on that you can depend.
They send you bills of services and advertisements to no end.
They send you more ads and packets of coupon savers.
For savings on everything or names of driveway pavers.
When the Post office is gone and there is nothing left to send.
Our lives will go on even with no postal service on to depend.
Will we also forget Ben Franklin the first Post Master General.
The way we forgot how to write letters or people in general.
Sad, isn’t it? Thanks for the poem! You should start posting these!
I am still a beginner who only gets inspiration from other people's words. Maybe one day I will be able to write poetry for poetry sake. Until then, I honor you and other people's poems with my clumsy attempt of a response.
Well, keep writing. Practice helps.
I get all of the ones you mentioned, Carole, plus the political adverts from local, state, and national organizations that I don’t support and for whose policies I would never vote.
Me too! Also in my email! It’s like killing cockroaches or mosquitoes!🦟
And coupons!
Chopping down trees for junkmail!
Isn’t it incredible how easily we are manipulated into opening that Valpak envelope! God forbid we toss a 1 in 50,000 chance of finding a hundred dollar check into the trash.
Yet the temptation is always to look, anyway! And the coupons are mostly terrible, to boot!
I feel ya! And I love your sharp, funny take on junk mail and how you turned this frustration into rhythm and rhyme. <3
Total waste of time dealing with those ads! The stickers gum up the shredder, too.
I feel you <3
Carole, it sounds like we get the same mail.
I think I must be on every mailing list in the world!
Kinda fun!
Fun writing about it, not the going through it, though!
😂 my letter carrier asks me when I'm going to take that 1 envelope he left 4 weeks ago
If that’s all you left, he’s lucky!
It’s good that the church next to me has a paper recycler bin, at least. At the moment, I’ve got a full bag to go over there, plus a huge stack yet to deal with.