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    11 months ago

    Cool article that is spot on already in 1983.
    Conventional mail is all but dead here, there are several months between we receive letters. I only remember getting 3 letter this year, and they are pretty rare, so it’s something you notice.

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        11 months ago

        I live in Denmark, and you can register to not get avertissements in your mail. I must admit I’m surprised it works so well.
        That wasn’t even what I meant when I wrote we don’t get mail. Because it’s been about 10 years since we last received an advertisement in the mail. So I completely forgot it’s a thing. When you register you also get a sticker, and I can’t even recall if that’s still on the mail box. 😋
        We do get 2 local “free” papers once a week that are paid by advertisements. Those used to be excluded too, but apparently they changed that.
        If an advertiser wants to send us mail, they have to send a real letter with name and address, and that today is about 2.5-3 Euro, and requires the advertiser to have that information. I don’t recall getting one of those for like maybe 15 years, from a company I used to do business with.
        With µblock on my Firefox browser on Linux and Android, and no TV commercials, I live a near 100% advertisement free life. 😀

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        11 months ago

        Junk mail is not a thing outside US. We do get flyers though, but usually sticking a piece of paper on your mailbox saying “no flyers” is enough to never get them.