Junk Mail: First US law to legally recognize your mailbox as your private property and prohibit the...

...US Postal Service (USPS) from delivering unrequested junk mail to addressees.  The USPS cannot deliver any mail to generic addressees (“occupant,” “resident,” “tenant,” etc.) or to people no longer residing at the address.  However, addressees can opt to RECEIVE junk mail if they wish and need only go to their local post office to request such be delivered to their address.  Any addressee can write with a bold black marker across any received commercial or non-profit (including political) correspondence the words “JUNK MAIL” (not obscuring the mailer’s return address) and put it back into his or her mailbox (including postal boxes).  The USPS must then add the mailer to the ban list for that address.

 
[Currently, you cannot stop the USPS from delivering junk mail to your mailbox.  Legally, your mailbox isn't your mailbox but the USPS's.  It is actually a federal crime to put ANYTHING in another person's mailbox ... or even your own mailbox except for letters to be delivered by the USPS.  You drop off party invitations into your friends' mailboxes and you could be arrested.  The USPS even goes so far as making it easier for junk mailers to fill your mailbox with garbage by allowing them to address letters by zip codes.  This is where generic addressees ("occupant") come into play.
 
And this is another odd example of silent environmentalists.  Where has been their outrage over this waste?  Think how much garbage is produced everyday by people not even opening junk mail letters and simply tossing them into their trash cans.  Think of how many forests are chopped down everyday to meet the demand of junk mailers, the fuel used to transport junk mail to homes and then to landfills, and all the electricity wasted by the USPS in processing junk mail.]
 
This challenge is won by the US House Representative or US Senator who successfully introduces the bill to the US Congress, get it passed by Congress, and signed into law by the US President (or if the President vetoes it, gets Congress to override the veto).

Future Challenges: First nationally syndicated radio talk show host to champion this challenge and be the first of her/his kind to:

1) Start a We the People online petition calling upon the US President to also champion the above challenge.  To win this future challenge, the petition must get at least the minimum necessary signatures to be considered by the White House.  [Currently, that's 25,000.]

2) Get a member of the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs or the US House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform on her/his show.  [These two congressional committees oversee the US Post Office.]  To win this future challenge, the committee member must be on the show for at least fifteen minutes.

3) Get the Chair or Vice Chair of either the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs or the US House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform on her/his show and advocate that they pass the original challenge.  To win this future challenge, the (Vice) Chair must be on the show for at least fifteen minutes.

4) Get both Chairs and both Vice Chairs of the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the US House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform on her/his show and advocate that they pass the original challenge.  To win this future challenge, the Chairs and Vice Chairs must be on the show for at least a half an hour.

5) Get the US Postmaster General on her/her show and encourage her/him to make the above original challenge's changes to the US Postal Service.  To win this future challenge, the US Postmaster General must be on the show for at least fifteen minutes.

6) Get the US President on her/his show and encourage her/him to do the changes laid out in the original challenge.  To win this future challenge, the US President must be on the show for at least fifteen minutes.

Once the above original challenge has happened (and mail traffic thus greatly decreases), first US Post Office branch for a city or town to:

7) Only deliver mail on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

8) Only once a week.

9) No longer provide home or business delivery of mail, but instead adds multiple drive-through windows at their main branch (and sub-branches) for a city.  To win this challenge, the drive-through windows must be open from at least Noon to 8 pm and the city must have a population of at least 50,000.

10) Do Future Challenge #9 and provide postal customers a way of being alerted when they have mail awaiting pick up at their local branch.  Customers can option to have the alert system robo-call or text them as well as only robo-call or text them when their mailbox has received an overnight letter/package, a priority letter/package (two day guaranteed delivery), and/or when it is full.

11) Do Future Challenge #10 and offer a 24-hour APOM (Automated Post Office Machine).  Like an ATM (Automated Teller Machine) that banks offer their customers but this machine enables people to drive or walk up to it at their local post office, enter in a magnetic-strip card (like a Debit Card), enter in their pass code, and the machine will then bring their mail to them.

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