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Comment by tissarah | Hacker News Reader

Have you checked out Catalog Choice? They have something similar called MailStop... https://www.catalogchoice.org/mailstop

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Yup. We've been in open beta for a long time (contacted some of the same folks/ppl that they do)... wondering if we inspired them ;). Flattered if so. We like CC - they're good people.

Up here in Canada we use this: http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/

You put a red dot (i.e. a red sticker, any sticker) in your mailbox, and they will NOT put junk mail in.

So Canada has this option, and a commenter above said Germany does. Why does the US not have this?

What's even sadder is I cannot fathom how you guys have this option. The US has literally grown up with junk mail - it's always about 99% of mail and we cannot fathom what life is like on the other side!

Junk mailers are the postal system's main customers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/sunday-review/the-junking-...

Which further proves why the Postal Service is not necessary and will not be missed when it's largely out of service 5 years from now.

Doesn't the Postal Service serve as the source-of-record for addresses? I think that'd be missed.

Ditto with Denmark. Although we have to register our opt-out with the postal service, and then we receive a special sticker to put on the mailbox. There are have even been talk about changing junkmail to opt-in instead.

Catalog Choice is a nonprofit which has been around for years and has over a million members. 'Inspiration' clearly flows the other direction.

CC are pioneers & we have a lot of respect for them. We'd be delighted if we grew to a 10th of their user base. But i can assure you that we came up w the mobile junk mail zapper idea entirely on our own. edit: clarification.

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