From the title linked news article:
BROOKLINE, Mass. -- Neighbors said Alan J. Gagne, 20-year-veteran of the U.S. Postal service, had a real sense of duty about his job.
But when Gagne didn't return from deliveries Friday, his boss found he may not have been as dedicated to the route as they thought.
At his apartment, his boss found Gagne dead from an apparent heart attack.
The supervisor also found stacks of undelivered mail stuffed in closets and cabinets. The oldest article so far was dated in the 1990s, according to Post Office officials. But as of Monday they had not finished cataloging the four or five truckloads of undelivered mail.
Julie Anderson, a resident on Gagne's route, took a positive view of the ordeal -- noting the lack of junk mail.
"Maybe he was looking out for us," she said.
Or maybe he was tired of carting around the huge amounts of junk mail that our post office system has to deliver on a daily basis. It's amazing the amount of unsolicted junk that we get here on a weekly basis.
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3 comments:
Has there always been junk mail. I don't remember any until the mid-90's, but I may not have paid attention
Junk Mail is sometimes called Direct Mail, but usually only by the people who produce it. It was invented in the U.S. at the beginning of this century by a Mr. Sears, and it continues to grow: the annual figure for the US passed 70 billion pieces in 1995. Its bulk can fill mailboxes, engulfing important personal mail. The time-consuming task of sorting through it is made more difficult by the creative people employed to write it, who try to get their envelopes to look important or valuable enough to open.
Believe it or not from a website called: junkbusters
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I get 10 to 20 catalogs a day. I have recently started calling each company asking them to stop. They do so politely and mention that I may still get a few because they are in the "pipe".
Another solution I have tried is to disable the number "8" on the phone so my wife cannot call any of the toll-free numbers to order anything. Of course, this means my friends that have '8' in their phone will also not get any calls. Just as well. How good of a friend are they if they don't change their phone to one without an '8'?
Some may say that is a bit drastic. The only other solution is to firebomb the catalog fulfillment houses. Perhaps I can convince Muslims that those places made anti-Islamic comments.
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