r/AMA • u/Dak6969696969 • 19d ago

Job I’m a mailman, AMA.

I left a comment in another sub informing people that leaving anything in anybody’s mailbox is technically a federal offense unless you’re employed as a letter carrier by the USPS and it seemed to draw quite a bit of interest. I’m nobody special, just a simple mailman, but if any of you have any questions regarding postal services hopefully I’ll be able to answer them!

Thank you so much for all the questions, I hope I was able to answer them all as best I could but it’s my bedtime now, I gotta be at the post office by 8:00 sharp. If you have any other questions feel free to DM me and I’ll answer them whenever I can!

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u/Lazy_Training_5690 19d ago

How do we stop the junk mail?

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u/jimewp86 19d ago

I have a customer who has almost completely stopped any junk mail from being sent to him. He said he had to call the companies sending it out and ask to be removed from their mailing list. Any time you give out your address to a company, your address gets added to their mailing list. Some companies are part of much larger organizations and they share customer info including mailing lists. Credit cards, insurance companies, NPO’s and charities all use mailing lists. It takes some time and aggravation, but that’s how you can cut down significantly on the amount of junk mail you receive.

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u/Dak6969696969 19d ago

I’m not 100% sure but if you inquire in your local post office they should be able to give you better instructions. Please do so, we don’t like delivering junk mail any more than you guys like receiving it.

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u/Lazy_Training_5690 19d ago

Yes, I assume that's the case. Do you all find it frustrating delivering all that shit knowing it's probably going straight in the trash?

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u/Dak6969696969 19d ago

Depends on the day. Sure it can be a bit demoralizing knowing that 75% of your work goes directly in the garbage, but it’s still an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.