Ban all junk mail. Deliver residential mail once per week. Use postal workers to deliver healthy food to the needy (cheese, rice, peanut butter etc.) Ban EBT cards.
Benefits:
• Not paying people to deliver items that just get thrown out to fill up land fills
• Controlling what people are consuming and reducing obesity.
• Reducing the cost of medical care for treating obesity.
• Eliminate the ability of addicts to sell/trade EBT cards for cash.
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Residential mail once per week won’t work.
Maybe citizens can optionally go pick it up or have once a week delivery.
Imagine being a day late with your nephews birthday card. That could be 2 weeks?
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Disagree. Who gets to decide what people eat? The issue is the food companies make here is not food in America. They make real food for the rest of the world but Americans get chemicals and fake food. The companies can make real food for Americans as well.
Also, how is the government going to ban junk mail? Who determines what is junk and what is not? If a company is willing to advertize why should they not be “allowed” too? I do agree we have a landfill plastic issue. I think there are some successful options being used. I personally like the “tarped” landfill which collects the menthane gases from decomposition which can then be used for other purposes. Plant based containers would be much better. We need to go back to hemp based products which are very decomposeable. Glass should be recycled at a much higher rate. The plastic serves a purpose. There had to be something done with the by products of oil and gas. The companies should be able to come up with better ideas now?
I agree with addicts not being able to sell EBT cards for cash. However, the solution is passing a drug test to get any welfare. If cannot pass a pee or blood test then do not get welfare monies ie tax payer monies.
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You really should split this into multiple proposals. At minimum you’ve got at least two different proposals here, one related to mail and the other related to EBT cards.
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An arrogant, uneducated, selfish post…
- USPS is charging for that advertisements mail - people are paid OFF it, among other things, not only to deliver it…
- if you gullible to consume what is being advertised, you will pick up way more off the TV you apparently spend too much time by or elsewhere; the junk food ads are probably the least of your concern at that point…
- NR3 is out of a thin air completely - you don’t treat obesity by stopping consumption of mailed items - the obese need to reduce their “other consumption” and to increase the movement of the limbs and all…
- HOW mostly-wasteful, often-misused and improperly issued to begin with EBT cards relate to a regular mail being delivered once a week — that is beyond any comprehention!
No junk mail is a single policy. The rest of this is separate policies and should not be included
Sell the Post Office to Amazon, they even deliver on Sundays!
Amazon is one of the last companies I’d want responsible for public mail.
Seriously? The government doesn’t run one thing fiscally responsible! Amazon is a billion dollar corporation, so they could certainly run the pony express!
I am definitely for reducing the flood of unsolicited advertisement mail. If you have a PO box in addition to a street address, you even get it all twice. Such a waste of trees and paper! I spend hours a week just destroying it, carefully removing and shredding my address so it won’t wind up in my garbage and landfills. Besides, SC doesn’t recycle paper any more. Our forests are going up in flames, trees are dying from the fallout of geoengineering, or they are intentionally logged in an insane attempt to prevent forest fires. Much of the Amazon rain forest already gone. And we seem unable to regrow trees as we used to, due to drought or toxic soil. Once they are gone, they are gone, and we seem so unconcerned about where oxygen comes from (when oceans are dying at the same time).
A billion dollar corporation run by a guy with a personal agenda.