FW: 6 new messages from your neighbors today

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 > From: Nextdoor Japantown <http://www.nextdoor.com/~nextdoor>
 > Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 22:10:28 GMT
 >
 > New Posts
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 > Dave Truslow from Hyde Park posted a messagein General: 
 >     I thought I'opped most junk mail when a pile (67 pages! ) of
 >     ads was delivered labeled as "addresses in ". No name /
 >     Valued Customer and my street name and address. I'd previously
 >     registered at Catalogchoice.org as recommended on the City's
 >     website to halt junk mail and have been relatively free of it &
 >     porch directories for a few years. However, Catalogchoice is now
 >     TrustedID - a private, for-profit company with a new agenda. 
 >     
 >     Was informed at  St. James USPS office that a "red card" can be
 >     completed to tell the carrier not to deliver it. The supervisor,
 >     Mr. Nguyen, was professional and helpful.
 >     
 >     There's more to the story. Subsequently learned that USPS now
 >     offers something called Every Door Direct Mail - which is bulk
 >     mail to every mail drop within a zip code. No street address or
 >     name is needed. *and no means to opt-out*. 
 >     
 >     Then I discovered USPS Form 1500 - form link & backgrounder at
 >     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_Order
 >     
 >     Although the form says it's to stop delivery of sexually oriented
 >     mailing, *it can be used for anything offensive* according to the
 >     cited Supreme & federal court rulings. 
 >     
 >     Bulk mailers Redplum, AT&T (no way to opt-out), Bay Area New
 >     Group, and a few others that send junk mail are now listed as
 >     sending unwanted sexually oriented material. I have no idea what
 >     happens when EDDM & our rights collide: "Various rulings have
 >     upheld the Supreme Court decision that the postal customer's
 >     discretion is not subject to review."
 >     
 >     Will be interesting to see how this plays out. For the cost of a
 >     stamp or post office visit, you may be able to save a few trees
 >     too.
 > 
 > Shared to 5 neighborhoods