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Question:
What is the appropriate action to take when you see these bold red letters on an envelope in your mail?

Choices:
Open it, it’s “ IMPORTANT”
Return to sender.
Throw it in the trash.
Compost it.
Throw it in the trash with prejudice!

 

Obvious junk mail like that just gets shit-canned.

There was a period when I would open all that and if there was a postage paid envelope I would tear everything in half (including the envelope it came in) and send it back to them.

I have received mail that actually was important, so I do look at the stuff before it goes into the recycle bin or the shredder.

Especially when it's postmarked from Bolingbrook IL; I used to live in an adjacent city (Woodridge, IL).

Maybe 80% of our incoming mail fits the '...with prejudice' selection.

Would be great if the USPS decided to stop offering discounted postage rates for 'bulk' mail.

Tear it in half to render it unidentifiable, then throw it in the recycling bin at the post office. Let THEM pay to dispose of it.

Unless it's AARP or Capital One, in which case it gets run through my cross-cut shredder to make DAMN sure it's unidentifiable.

Unless it says First Class...it doesn't even come in the house.