EllieJan 10, 2020

TIL that in the US, you can get advertisers to stop sending you physical mail by telling the post office "that you, *in your own discretion*, believe [the advertisements] to be 'erotically arousing or sexually provocative.'" (Emphasis mine.)

USPS and the advertiser are not legally allowed to contest this.

So if you tell them that CreditOne mailings just make you *too horny*...

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub307/welcome.htm

Publication 307 - Stop Unsolicited Sexually Oriented Advertisements in Your Mail

Show threadkOctoJan 11, 2020
@noelle Why is america like this? In germany you can just put a *no advertisements* sticker on your mailbox. And if you still receive ads you can go to court.
Show threadEarthling of the Rhine
@kOcto @noelle In the US corporations have legally been declared "persons" and their political donations "free speech". So they pretty much have free reign over our psyche and political system. It's possible that they'll also privatise the postal service; they've been trying for years. One way they're destroying it is legally requiring it to pay for itself, so if not for paid junk mail and Amazon shipments it would collapse.
Jan 11, 2020 at 4:07pmWeb
Show threadRobertJan 11, 2020
@amikigu @kOcto @noelle yeah that's the biggest thing about our post office, the junk mail is vital to keeping the service running (which is actually pretty damn great for personal mail) so it's a necessary evil in the face of Republicans trying to destroy it
Show threadRobertJan 11, 2020
@amikigu @kOcto @noelle and of course the repubs have two major reasons for wanting the USPS dead, not only is it dangerous to their dogma that government services can never be useful, it also has historically been one of the most reliable career paths out of poverty for PoC