Hi there everyone. This blog is coming to an end. The junk mail has stopped for good. Some days my mailbox is empty. I thought I would give the blog some closure, and take a peak into the box of junk I have been holding on to for a year.
The average American household receives 848 pieces of junk mail per year.
From April 2014 to December 2014, 8 months she received about 1,786 mailpieces.
From January 2015 to September 2015, 9 months she received about 155 mailpieces. Her peak week was 154 mailpieces.
Money spent about $220. Some it was bankrolled by money found in the junk mail.
Postage and stamps – $150 This is so high because of all the larger mailpieces that got a Form 1500, and all the jerks that had to go to step 2.
Envelopes $8 all bought at the Dollar store.
Glitter $6
Princess money $1
Permanent markers – $2 for 2 packages of permanent markers from the Dollar Store.
Paper $4 (I think it was on sale) the cheapest ream of paper from Wal-Mart.
Toner – $25 It takes me about a year to go through a cartridge. Even printing on the lightest setting, was no match for the 100+ Form 1500’s I printed out.
Avery Mailing Labels – $23
A lot of that was optional. You don’t need Avery mailing labels or glitter.
I think a lot of people have been waiting for this. The big box of all the crap that I have gotten over the past year.
Over 100 form 1500’s. This does not include all the mistakes I made. And there were a lot of mistakes. I tossed in the DMA complaints that I had a paper copy of into the photo.
Happy photos of happy politicians.
Greeting Cards. I can to open a Hallmark store now.
Membership cards. What would you like to be a card carrying member of? I have plenty of choices.
Note pads. This is not all of them. I used 3 of them for taking notes about the blog.
Post cards. Because you never know when you will need a post card from Jesse Helms.
This cheap travel clock from National Association of Blind Veterans is a favorite of mine. Mostly because it has a cover over the clock face, rendering it useless for a blind person. The face is just a piece of paper. I sent this off to Melanie Hicken a CNN reporter along with a pile of junk mail. I like to imagine that in the middle of the big fancy NY CNN office there is a reporter with this cheap clock on her desk.
Bookmarks and prayer cards. Note that I wrote my own prayer on one of them.
A couple of DVD’s. One of them with the Fox News all-stars on the cover.
Calendars. How nice you have a different photo for each month. I have a different calendar for each month!
Window clings. Why yes I do support one of the worst charities in America.
Fake checks. Whatever you do don’t cash these. It gives the “charity” access to your bank account.
Of course the crap from St. Joseph’s gets a photo all it’s own
By far the strangest swag I received was a bag of dirt. Sadly I don’t know where they are right now. They were lost in the piles of junk mail.
And the granddaddy of them all. Over 1,600 return mailing labels. Keep in mind I used hundreds of them, and didn’t make a dent in the pile.
The blog maybe slowing down, but if you still want stories about junk mail, the elderly, scams, scam PACs, scam charities, and anything else that catches my fancy you can follow the Facebook page I set up for the blog.
One last thought: I do not make money from this blog. The ads you see are not from me. WordPress has to cover it’s costs some how. Ethically I can not monetize this blog. Can you imagine the ads that Google ads would put on this blog with all the political, and charity links I have put on it?
Drowning in Junk Mail 