keep blocking them because it would allow them to 'compete with private enterprise'.

Maybe it wasn't banking, but it was something like that..?

Make a fortune...

Or at least charge the trash senders the same rate as first class??

is their money maker.

Don't look at it as junk, but instead look at it that your little bit of discomfort in getting it is keeping them afloat.

Oh and for the record, I used to own a fairly large printing and mailing services company. I think I mailed out (for clients) around 20 million pieces a year of what you call "Junk mail". I know my employees didn't mind it.

I also printed and mailed out roughly 5 million voter registration cards a year. And then there were the political mailings.

They do not charge the same as "1st class" because bulk mail is considered a "work share". We automated the mail enough where all they had to do was put the container on a truck and off it goes across the country pretty much ready to be delivered. Most mailings we could even put in "Carrier Route Walk sequence" - That means that my business could prep a mailing and have it delivered 500 miles away and it literally was in the order that the mail man walked/drove their delivery route when it left my business.

Just sayin'

A friend of mine regularly sends stuff through the mail.

I'm too paranoid, I would never do that.

before I start collecting SS.