We have a house that we rent out that does not have a mailbox. All mail I am expecting is sent to me instead. I don't get the junk mail. I wouldn't want to have a mailbox because anything important delivered there is likely to not be seen by me.
That's why I have a private mailbox service. When I worked overseas, I had a private mailbox back home and my mail was handled by someone I could trust.
TDD
Keep sending them nice letters, written in crayon on the heaviest cardboard you can find? :-)
(it's the DirectTV lot that keep getting me here. When I lived in England, it was Crapital One - no way will I ever do business with either of them...)
The three c's (Credit, cruises, casinos) with us. Of course, two of these are own fault (grin).
Yeah, it pretty much is!
Since the USPS became privitized, they hafta make money. And since most sane citizens now use email on their computer or cell phones for personal msgs, the US mail must make most of its money on 2nd-4th class mail, i.e. junk mail. If you think they're gonna bite the hand that feeds them, you're sadly mistaken. I went through all this nonsense a few years ago and the USPS WILL deliver what they are paid to deliver. End of story. You ain't gonna win this one.
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I used to have DirecTV. I quit over a year ago (because of, among other things, really poor "customer service"). They still send 1 or 2 ads every month. Those ads are almost identical.
We quit DTV because it became insanely expensive. It was costing $95 mo for what I used to get for less than $40 mo on cable. Dish is no better. This for dozens of crap stations like QVC, 24 hr golf, and other useless nonsense. Also, I think they pull from the same 500 movie pool. I'd see the same movies over and over again. Worse, the major cable networks have gotten to the point where fully 20 mins of every hr is commercials. Screw that! I now get Netflix for $20 mo, and read more.
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Wish I had the willpower to follow your example. I have the cheap Dishnet with DVR, standard definition, and it is still $54 a month. Most nights, most of my time is on Discovery or History channel, though, and I would really miss those. 200 channels, and all but maybe 12 are useless to me. Around here, Dish is cheaper than cable. Comcast put all the good channels up on the expensive tier, and filled the basic with garbage. To get the channels I want from them would be 70+ a month.
Comcast is weird. That's what I had when I had cable. They charged over $65 mo for anything with TCM, all I really cared about. I got tired of that price, too, and did without tv for 2 yrs. three local channels on rabbit ears. But wait, a deal!
Turns out comcast, which normally charged about $30 mo for crappy basic, has even lower rates if you can find them. I got mine at supermkt promo. $10 for basic for one yr if you hadn't subscribed in the last yr. I qualified and signed up. Later, comcast offered the weird "Classic" pkg for only about $20 more. After a yr, they jacked up my basic to about $17 and I was only paying less than $40 mo for TCM and a buncha other good cable channels. Those cheapo starter basic deals are often offered by independents thru comcast and the classic pkg, if they still offer it, is a steal. Look around. I have a friend who is still paying only $12 mo for comcast basic.
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