Same reason you pay for trash removal of physical junk mail that’s delivered to your house
This actually works.
US should do same. Make spammers deliver their junk mail themselves, lightens the load on the USPS and creates direct jobs.
https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Options-Do-I-Have-Regard...
On the one hand it's definitely harassment to find out someone's address just to send them things they don't want for the purposes of changing their behavior. On the other hand, that's their business model.