Junk mail!

@jstory07 (145123)
Roseburg, Oregon
July 16, 2025 2:22pm CST
Do you even open your junk mail when you get it.??? We look at the envelope and just tear it in half and we do not even open it up. We look at a post card when it is an ad we got in the mail. That is the only junk mail that we even brother to look at. Maybe companies should put their ads on a post card that way it would at least be looked at.
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23 responses
@AmbiePam (100558)
• United States
16 Jul
I open it because I once found a $5 bill in a piece of junk mail. They wanted the occupant to do a survey, and for $5 I took a 5 minute survey on a piece of paper (no postage necessary).
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@AmbiePam (100558)
• United States
16 Jul
@TheHorse Hey man, five bucks is five bucks.
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@TheHorse (228670)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Jul
Wheee!
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22h
I used to do surveys and one company gave me a dollar a day for answering one question every day. I got $30 every month in the mail. I did that for a couple years and than the company went under. That was easy money.
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• Torrington, Connecticut
16 Jul
I open all the mail and burn whatever is junk mail once a month in my fire pit
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22h
We can not burn the trash outside here anymore.
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• Ahmednagar, India
17h
@BACONSTRIPSXXX, You get junk mail by post also? It never happens here.
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@sallypup (65248)
• Centralia, Washington
21h
@jstory07 It's windy right now and 90 above. No way on fires.
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@BarBaraPrz (50020)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Jul
I'll flip through some of it but not the furniture flyers... I don't need any new furniture. And I don't bother looking at grocery flyers from the stores I don't shop at. I don't get much "junk mail" these days anyway.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22h
We get a lot of junk mail.
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@abhi_bangal (7153)
• Ahmednagar, India
17h
Talking about digital junk mail, whenever I open the folder I make sure that that is no important mail that has by mistake entered this folder. Otherwise it's delete all only. Hahaha...
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• Ahmednagar, India
3h
@jstory07 That's the easiest way, after all.
@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
15h
That is what I do with my email to.
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@Traceyjayne (3263)
• United Kingdom
23h
It’s got to the stage that I just delete junk mail ….it just gets on your nerves ….total waste of time.
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• Ahmednagar, India
17h
@Traceyjayne I am trying to understand your postage service. But I fail to understand how junk mails are still delivered physically.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22h
What about what you get from the post office.
• United Kingdom
21h
@jstory07 junk mail that is delivered by the postman goes straight in the bin ….the same with leaflets , for pizza places etc…
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22h
Nah I just bin it. In the card board and paper blue bin the council gave us.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
Do you black out your address first so no one steals your information first.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
20h
@Ineeddentures Ours has our name on the junk mail.
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21h
@jstory07 Tear it all up into tiny pieces Judy It's not readable after that. But most of our junk mail doesn't have names on it, just says to the householder
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@allknowing (149709)
• India
21h
I hardly get any junk mail
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
20h
I get all kinds of junk mail.
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@cherigucchi (15378)
• Philippines
18h
I just had checked mine and deleted them right away sonve it took a lot of space
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
15h
Most of the spam I get is all deleted.
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• United States
23h
Sometimes. I'll look and see if there are coupons. I have got cash in some for filling out their survey. If it's possible that they contain pre paid return envelopes, I'll save them to use to mail things for free. Most of it gets burned out back if the burn bans aren't in effect.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
Here you have to get a permit to burn anything.
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• United States
21h
@jstory07 It used to be that way here too but they quit that and made a law that 3x3 fires in a pit are legal but if someone complains, you need to put it out. You can still have recreational fires and fires for cooking food unless there is a burn ban. Which there is right now.
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@DaddyEvil (153506)
• United States
16 Jul
It depends... If it's a company that keeps sending junk mail, then I'll open it, take out the self-addressed return envelope, stuff the rest of the stuff that was in the mailer into the return envelope and send it back to them. (Only for the return envelopes where the company is paying the postage, though. Let them throw their own trash away and pay for the privilege. )
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
My Dad used to do the same thing.
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@DaddyEvil (153506)
• United States
21h
@jstory07 It never made a difference that I could tell but sure made me feel better!
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@RasmaSandra (87028)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Jul
usually my email puts it in SPAM but what leaks through I block the addresses
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
What about the mail from your mailman.
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@RasmaSandra (87028)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11m
@jstory07 I never get regular mail except circulars
@sallypup (65248)
• Centralia, Washington
21h
Dish network is getting clever. I found what looked to be an important brown envelope in the mail today. I almost opened it then saw it was from Dish. It found its way into the recycler toter.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
20h
We had dish but it kept going up so my one grandson when he was here set me up with roku streaming for a fourth of the price.
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@sallypup (65248)
• Centralia, Washington
20h
@jstory07 We just use free youtube. It's good enough.
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@JudyEv (358648)
• Rockingham, Australia
19h
We mostly look at it then throw it away.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
15h
I get a lot of junk mail to threw away in a week.
@Deepizzaguy (111954)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
21h
I do read my junk mail since sometimes it can inform me about getting money for being a patient for my mental health challenages.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
20h
I got a $1000 once for a health research project. I had to wait a year when it was over to get my money and a year later there was my check for a thousand dollars.
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@Deepizzaguy (111954)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2h
@snowy22315 (192902)
• United States
16 Jul
I usually look thru it unless I am pretty sure from the envelope it is something I am not going to want.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
Companies sure send out a lot of junk mail.
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@much2say (57782)
• Los Angeles, California
23h
I will take a glance at every piece (just in case it is something important), but generally it's a waste of paper and a few seconds of my time.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
All we get is a waste of our time.
@FourWalls (76768)
• United States
1h
No, ma'am, straight into the shredder with it.
@Tampa_girl7 (52882)
• United States
22h
I usually look at it before I toss it.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
22h
My husband looks at it if he gets the mail and than he tears it up and throws it away.
@wolfgirl569 (119374)
• Marion, Ohio
23h
I open some things.
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
I do not open anything. Maybe I should.
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@TheHorse (228670)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Jul
I delete that stuff if it's online.If it' snail mail, I open it and then toss it
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@jstory07 (145123)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21h
I do the same with the spam email.