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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 11 months ago

In the US you just shoot the people that try to put ads in your mailbox. Not a lawyer tho so idk. shrug

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 30 points 11 months ago

LPT: probably shouldn't do this

[-] FundMECFSResearch 18 points 11 months ago

LPT: If you aren’t caught it isn’t a crime

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the warning, i almost shot the mailman.

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[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

This post was written by a dog with a gun.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 47 points 11 months ago

In France you just put a sticker or something on your box saying "no ads" and that's it, no more ads posted. It really is quite a bunch of paper every week, too!

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

Obviously the Internet should remain as public and free as it is/as possible but you just made me want to sell it to France

[-] EmilyIsTrans 6 points 11 months ago

Same in Australia. Doesn't stop the pious "holier than thou" shits from illegally filling my letterbox with crap advertising their church

[-] VeganCheesecake 39 points 11 months ago

In Germany, you can just put a little sign on your letterbox that tells the post person to not give you any free newspapers or mail.

Only ads I've gotten in years where the ones directly addressed to me, and that's like every few months from one of two slightly old fashioned firms, and tends to include a voucher, so that's something.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

It's literally illegal for a post worker to not give you junk mail in the US.

[-] faercol 8 points 11 months ago

Same in France, and some cities are even experimenting the opposite: ads are opt-in, and you need to put a "I want ads" sign to get them instead.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Fucking America is horseshit, why wasn't I born over there

[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Ich hab das nicht dran weil ich die freien Zeitungen benutze, um den Biomüll einzupacken 💀

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Same in Estonia, I check my mailbox maybe 2-3 times per year, and that is just because I have nothing else to do while waiting for the lift to come. Also, now I want a cheesecake.

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Canada too. My wife was a letter carrier for a few years, she would make a note of non-admail boxes if someone put a notification on the box or sent in a form to opt-out, and put a red sticker on their sort slot at the depot. Then when she delivered it would only be addressed mail that went to that box.

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[-] RedC@sh.itjust.works 38 points 11 months ago

A tip if you're in the USA, look at the top right of envelope. If it says "presorted standard" it's garbage.

[-] Pirasp@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

In Germany it's "Dialogpost" or "Postwurf Spezial"

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Der junkenmailer

[-] deltreed@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

I wish they would get rid of all mail except for person to person written letter, checks made out to me, and packages I've ordered. Everything else is garbage.

[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Checks are also incredibly outdated in most countries.

[-] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

I'm in my mid thirties in Germany and literally never got or sent a single check.

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[-] Eiri@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Come to think of it, that's pretty much email, too.

75% automated notifications or stuff that isn't quite spam but you don't care about

23% spam

2% stuff that you better not miss

[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago

Just finished my jury duty and it was a wild ride

Other jurors shocked me with how antaganostic they were to the plaintiff for asking for compensation and punishment for a nursing home's negligence. We ended up awarding money for clear negligence- specifically for injuries (physical and financial) and pain, but it was a struggle to find agreement from them for clear facts that neither side disputed (and verbally acknowledged this nondispute). When it came time to answer if the doctor was negligent in not consulting a wound physician, they didnt agree because the nursing home policy said "do it if wound doesnt improve in 2-4 weeks". Wound got worse over the 5-6 weeks they waited and by the time they did, she was so bad from not participating in therapy (due to being laid on the wound constantly and the ensuing pain) that she had had to be put on hospice and died from a lack of dialysis.

Because they didnt find the violation of her rights (violations were agreed to) to be reckless or willful (such as by understaffing or poor care), we could not award additional damages to punish the nursing home

I take solace in the fact that it gave the family closure for a 6 year lawsuit

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

That second part is surprising to me. "Facility policy" and/or signed paperwork don't allow a provider to be negligent to someone under their care.

Hell, it wouldn't even protect individual nurses' licenses. Any licensed individual who provides care is responsible for following the law, even if "policy" contradicts it.

[-] jjagaimo@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

Thats what I was trying to argue but the other jurors were more concerned with not having to come back on Monday and a "that's what it says" with no critical thinking. Esp when the plaintiff expert witnesses (an excellent nurse who has a practice investigating nursing homes for compliance with the federal regulations and an excellent doctor who worked for CMS writing the very regulations) outlined what care the law requires

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[-] LockheedTheDragon@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was taught as a child to open plain envelopes first. Checks, credit cards, and other important stuff are put in boring envelopes.

I worked for a CC company and when we mailed checks to customers we told them "This check will come in a plain white envelope." And the amount of people who thank me for letting them know because they might have thrown it away.

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[-] sam@southampton.social 17 points 11 months ago

@The_Picard_Maneuver Here in the UK, sure we get Spam mail but there's red labels and stuff for really important mail from the government and things and most of the time it's just telling you to pay for a TV licence that you wouldn't use as you don't pay for live TV and just watch YouTube.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

If there was a way to highlight official government mail, spam mailers would use it to fool people into thinking it's something important. I get tons of spam that looks like something official.

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[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago

As someone who rents so much of my mail is from past residents which I have told them do not live here, or local ads (literally several magazines per month) which I can't opt out of cause it's EDDM, that I straight up just stopped collecting it. Any small packages that would have gone in the box go on top of the cluster and any letters I received are stuffed into the box and I pick them out if I happen to notice I'm missing something.

Anyone that really needs my attention would call me or email me shrug

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

My mailbox is near where I leave my garbage, so I only check it once a week. I immediately throw anything that's clearly an ad directly into the garbage and never look at it.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

When I was renting I had a stamp "Return to sender. Addressee not known at this address"

[-] mdd@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I do similar. Cross the name out with a Sharpie and write "MOVED".

After owning the place for two years now I just throw it out.

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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago
[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 11 points 11 months ago

Since we're talking about mail:

What do I do with my old bills/insurance statements/etc? I have executive dysfunction and I just can't find a simple method that works for me. It all ends up in a pile and every few months I pitch the whole thing and promise myself to do better next time. Perhaps there's an app, website, or program I should just digitize them into?

[-] hungprocess@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago

I was in the same boat and wound up buying a scanner and installing Paperless. Scanner sends the files to my network drop box, Paperless picks them up from the drop box and digitizes them. I finally got rid of like an entire garbage bag of old pay stubs and stuff that I had been hoarding.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

For me it's 99 spam things and one Manila folder. It's always the VA noticing I exist again and deciding I haven't been fucked with enough recently.

[-] Emmie@lemmings.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ya all can expect me to be internationally wanted on tv for not reading my mail. A dangerous suspect was seen on the border of Mexico with a bag full of unread mail. It is advised to not approach that person and inform post office immediately.

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[-] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Kind of feel about that about software updates.

I used to have a personal project site that ran Drupal. I don't know how things are now, but back then, every module could be updated automatically, except for the Drupal Core itself which had to be updated manually.

The one time I went "oh shit, a core update - nah, I can leave it after the weekend", the site got hosed by malware.

(It's a Jekyll site now. Drupal was a bit of overkill for it anyways.)

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