The Buckets by Greg Cravens for December 30, 2014

In your day?Yeah, just last week I dumped the contents of my mail box in to the recycle bin (except for two items I took inside to feed to the shredder). I should do it again tomorrow. In the meantime I’ll delete the spam from my email accounts.Repeat as needed. (or when I get a round to it.)

that is why I have a separate account for buying online.

Kid Sister has a wood stove. Junk snail mail has a purpose in the winter, at least. My old Boss shredded his for hamster habitat. (Biggest darn hamsters you ever saw!)

hahaha

Agreed Frank.

Junk mail is like bad luck to me; if I didn’t get it I would have any mail at all.

I used to get Spam emails from Online Casinos. I also get Spam emails from different banks.

Very annoying!xxx

I actually create a “disposable” email address for each merchant/website that wants my email address. That way I can verify if a piece of commercial email comes from the company I handed the corresponding address to. If it comes from a different company, I can cancel that disposable address and cow to never again do business with either company. Interestingly, I have found that pretty much all companies keep my email addresses to themselves, i.e., I only get messages addressed to that email from the corresponding company. If they send too many of those for my test, I click on the unsubscribe link, and so far that has always worked. (I don’t click on unsubscribe links for real spam, the type I get on my real addresses and that is largely scams, malware, phishing, and truly unsolicited commercial email: that tells the scammers that the address is active and someone is reading the messages.) My point is: most companies seem to be respectful of my emails and follow their privacy rules as promised.  Of course it may be the case that unscrupulous companies recognize the pattern in the disposable addresses and take them off their lists when sharing with others, in which case the disposable address still fulfilled its purpose.

so much mail. so much email. Delete. Delete. But this does remind me to unsubscribe to two companies. They send to my other email addr, so I really don’t need two.