Life is far too short to spend your valuable time arguing with people about unimportant things. Besides, there is nothing a stranger can do, no amount of time they can invest or money they can spend that obligates me to pay attention to them. IF I pay attention to something it is because I choose to do so. Not because I have an obligation.

Larry

Honestly – I’d seriously consider a report to the PostMaster who oversees her.

She is a government employee – while some/most of her pay is from the advertisers the USPS also receives support from the US Government. Making her, in effect, your employee.

With no right to verbally abuse you like that.

Your time is yours. That mail – once delivered – is yours. Direct mail is unrequested, and users of it know the percentages when they send it out.

So no – it’s not boorish to ignore it as it comes in.

I’m not convinced it’s boorish to send it (disclaimer – I was recently on the sending side as we did a mailer for the Sessions training). Since the costs of direct mail are borne by the sender I have far less of an issue with it over email marketing. Sometimes there just isn’t an alternate way to communicate a message to a given audience as efficiently as direct mail – even knowing the percentages.

Saves you the hassle and the environment.

I’ve been using it for a while and love it.

Besides, they just had a feature on the local news about a “junk mail” letter that was designed to look official in order to convince home owners they needed to order an expensive copy of their deed. I got that letter yesterday and immediately recognized it as junk, but the “perpetrators” were banking on the fact that people are gullible and would order a copy of their deed in fear of facing fines or penalties. So junk mail is not only annoying and environmentally unsound, it can be misleading as well.