Trade in your Junk Mail for Spam

QueueEhGuy writes "CNN is reporting that the Swedish Postal Service, Posten, is now offering a service where customers can choose to receive spam via a free, government run, service. Business are given the option of using this at a 25% discount from carrier delivered mail. For those of us with physical addresses, it raises an interesting question as to which one is less annoying, environmental benefits aside." Interesting step towards charging postage for email.

Comments

I just received this:

[stevenbee]

from:postmaster.sweden.gov.se
to: spam.magnet@ahole.net

Dear Citizen,
I am writing this in order to have your opinion.......

---snip---

If this were happening in America...

[RumGunner]

They could just save time and declare bankruptcy now. I read that article this morning.

Honestly, how do they expect people to react to this? "I can get spam from the government? Yippee!"

Re:E-Mail much less annoying

[st0rmshad0w]

Except you can't heat your home with email. =]

Re:E-Mail much less annoying

[stevenbee]

Except you can't heat your home with email

I take it you're not using an Athlon! ;-)

Polite Spammer

[scott1853]

I just got an e-mail last night from a spammer that's getting blocked by our little BSD postfix box. The very politely asked us to check on our server to make sure they weren't inadvertantly being marked as spammers.

They went on to explain how they were only an opt-in service and proceeded to list all the mail servers from which they send spam from.

I'll admit it was a nice gesture. It was especially nice of them to give us a complete list since we only had a couple of their boxes in the black list.

Recycle Direct

[Animats]

What I want is Recycle Direct. The USPS already has a semi-automated system for rerouting mail using forwarding addresses. I want to be able to specify a separate forwarding address for my junk mail. Something like "Buffalo Paperboard Corporation, The Big Dumpster In Back, 470 Ohio Street, Lockport New York, USA 14094".

Mailers should be able to tell that I've done this, just as they can now run address files through the USPS and get forwarding addresses substituted and old addresses deleted. That would be an opt-out list with teeth.

Re:Ingen Reklam Tack

[CrystalFalcon]

It simply means "No advertisements, please."

(The "please" part is an integral part of Swedish language that needs to be affixed to most sentences and constructs, unless used on its own, which is almost always ok too. In fact, most everyday business transactions end with the parties thanking each other a couple of times. In the US, I would expect a sign with the same message, adapted for culture, to read "Junkmailers will be shot.") :-)