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HopefullyFunny69 t1_iy3zdq5 wrote

The government sends junk mail?

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masterpiecesss OP t1_iy41jdx wrote

I live in the US. I used “Government” as a broad category to include Mail from the federal government in addition to the state and the city. The city sends junk Mail more often than not.

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Tordoix t1_iy4cvce wrote

Also junk mail from friends and family?? Are they caught in a MLM scheme or what?

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st4n13l t1_iy45lhd wrote

Not sure how OP classified them, but I would classify all of the political mailers I get as Government and certainly as Junk.

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icefire555 t1_iy43285 wrote

I get hiring pamphlets for USPS. ive never worked in shipping/postal.

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DemocratPlant t1_iy4maq6 wrote

This is actually one of the better sankey diagrams I've seen. Nice and to te point, looks nice, and sums the outlier info up well.

OP, I'm just curious. What was the ones that were not junk mail & could not be sent by email? Whas it mail-in voting stuff?

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masterpiecesss OP t1_iy4mtk5 wrote

Examples were voter registration cards, credit card replacements or a mailed check.

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BEETHR33 t1_iy5icw2 wrote

The “It can be sent in an email” was a stand out to me. Imagine how much money could be saved if it was sent to you via email instead of through post

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masterpiecesss OP t1_iy3tcbf wrote

We are a 2 person household between me and my wife. I logged all of our received mail from our mailbox every day in a sheet then converted the data into a json node so I can use http://www.sankey-diagram-generator.acquireprocure.com/
to generate this diagram. I categorized each mail piece into broader
categories to be able to make this Sankey chart readable. I categorized
any unsolicited mail into Junk Mail. Only of 5 out of 425 mail pieces was
mail that could not have been sent in an email.

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ledow t1_iy5udsx wrote

I could have one of those diagrams for the past 5 years.

Letters: Council tax bill (paid automatically and electronically anyway). One every... three months I think.

And I got a Jehovah's Witness hand-written piece of indecipherable junk posted through my door today.

That's it.

The graph wouldn't be very illuminating.

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kr4t0s007 t1_iy62hkv wrote

Hospital sends junk mail? “With every 10 chemo treatments get 1 free”

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positive_bias t1_iy40f6k wrote

We should have Sankey limits. Like The first Monday of the month or something.

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a_silent_dreamer t1_iy7664r wrote

Living in India the amount of junk mail people receive in the US is astonishing. I never get any junk mail and almost never get anything that couldn't just be an email. I wonder if its due to more efficiency or speed of US postal service.

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masterpiecesss OP t1_iy8esqw wrote

It costs about 50 cents per mail piece in the US. It’s probably the cheapest marketing approach for a lot of companies.

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TheTouchofAPriest t1_iy678vf wrote

If you feel comfortable sharing, what were the mail items that couldn’t have been sent via email?

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PENNST8alum t1_iy7u18k wrote

Probably the ones marked "government"

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SnowOnVenus t1_iy7zryg wrote

Maybe not email, but would secure digital post count as well?

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PENNST8alum t1_iy829vo wrote

Is there such a thing in the US? The IRS specifically says they will never contact you digitally it will always come via USPS to prevent fraud

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SnowOnVenus t1_iy8d932 wrote

Huh, maybe there isn't, I'd have presumed there was. If the infrastructure isn't in place, it obviously can't be done.

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LanewayRat t1_iy626e9 wrote

What is “Postal Office mail”? The post office doesn’t address mail to you, they are just a service provider.

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