[ via Anita Rowland ] A family in Washington State stops junk mail by using a postal regulation left over from the days of Comstock: you can forbid someone from mailing sexually oriented advertising from you.
The trick that makes this work is that you, dear reader, are the judge of what is sexually oriented materials. So if that weekly pile of coupons and glossy ads strikes you as lasvivious, then let the USPS know. The weekly shopper will have no choice but to stop sending that ‘filth’ to you.
Sometimes this country’s puritan neurosis comes in handy.
