junk mail

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has announced his latest initiative to save the post office from bankruptcy. (Hint: Improving customer service isn't a part of it.) His master plan: Hike the cost of mailing a letter for real people, and cut prices for junk mail.

If the USPS went into bankruptcy, would anyone care? Not according to former UPS board member Gary MacDougal, who argued in a scathing attack last week that "the rapid growth of email, online bill paying," and private parcel delivery firms like UPS and FedEx has made the Post Office obsolete. Statistics suggest he's right.

An idea by my former WalletPop colleague Zac Bissonnette to help keep the U.S. Postal Service afloat by mailing those pesky pre-paid junk mail envelopes from credit card companies back to the companies at their expense, sounds good until you get to the details. After all, who wouldn't want to...

If you feel like you've been getting a lot of mail lately encouraging you to open a credit card, it's not your imagination. Banks have been ramping up the number of offerings they're sending to your mailboxes. According to market research firm Synovate, credit card issuers sent 481.3 million...

Spammers are keeping pace with security experts -- and surpassing them -- in the fight for your inbox, cranking up the volume of junk emails sent in the first quarter of 2010.

Tired of the endless stream of junk in your mailbox? You're not alone. "I dread going to the mailbox," says Katie Hough, a Midwest mom. "It's rare that I get something that's addressed to me and not the 'current resident.'" Hough's mailbox, like those across the country, sees an average 1.5...

For some reason, I've always taken a kind of ironic comfort in the famous quotation "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." Although I recently learned that it's a paraphrase of a famous quote from Herodotus, I...