Junk Mail Delivered By USPO .....Some Facts!!

Junk Mail via USPO .... don't you hate it?? Here are some facts:

Junk mail is more than a nuisance: unsolicited mail has a tremendous negative impact on the environment. Approximately 96 million trees are destroyed each year in the United States alone to produce junk mail, and 10 to 24 billion gallons of water are used to produce the paper. All of these resources are wasted to produce items that only evoke about a 2 percent response rate. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that more than 4 million tons of junk mail are produced each year in the United States, and more than 50 percent of this unsolicited mail is not recycled, which means it ends up in landfills.

Junk mail also has a direct negative economic impact as well.  An estimated $320 million of local taxes are used to dispose of junk mail annually, and transportation of junk mail costs about $550 million per year, not to mention the air pollution generated during transport.