The US Postal Service is one of humanity’s great achievements of communication, and there is a presumptive attention that used to attach to everything that came through the mail slot. Each parcel was, after all, for you: bills, correspondence, all things that required your attention. Of course, it didn’t take long until marketers, fundraisers, politicians, and the like started taking advantage of that with bulk mailing. In 1972 junk mail constituted a quarter of all mail delivered, but by 2019 it was nearly two-thirds. A 2015 review by the Postal Service inspector general found that Americans
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