The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for October 14, 2023

Junk mail from insurance companies.

Often is advertising of something you’ll never need.

It’s for a Reverse Mortgage.

You’d better read it! Your cars warranty is about to expire

Like all my phone calls from ‘unknown caller’.

Don’t forget “Open Immediately”, “Last Chance”, “Exclusively For You”.

“See reverse side for opening instructions”

Not true. It is urgent and important… to the sender.

Even mail from real companies that I have accounts with wind up in the trash. With electronic everything the information in the envelopes have been taken care of already.

I have a secret weapon I use on those letters. I look at the return address and that usually tells me if I need to open it or not.

I have been told by someone working in the post office that the 9 out of 10 letters I just throw in the trash without opening are what is keeping the post offices financially afloat!

I rip them in half first.

You certainly got THAT right!

Mr. Sansom has hit on one of my pet peeves. I maintain my mailbox, cell phone, email, for my convenience; not to receive junk mail, in particular car companies, out of state solar panels, “free” home energy audits, etc.

Sorry for the rant…

My lawyer sent my will in the mail marked ‘personal and important’. Although he didn’t think it was necessary to write the word ‘urgent’ on the envelope. (Whew!)

Put them through a shredder first.

I seldom open mail. Most get shredded and trashed. Little if any is first class anymore. Save the trees and stop sending 5 pounds of sales trash on Wednesday that no one looks at. Straight to landfill. Used to burn trash till it became illegal. Now I have to pay 360 dollars a year for landfill use that they make a pure stinking forever mess out of the environment. Rats, snakes, cats, dogs, buzzards, vultures, and on Lord knows what else. Our government at work – dump.

Especially when it`s addressed to “current occupant”.

Throw it in the Shredder!!!!!

The life wisdom of Brutus Thornapple .

good tip, I think… well it’s worked so far, why change it. :D

At my advanced age I just recently had all my online statements re-routed to US mail. After I’m gone, my kids may not know how to access my online accounts, but they’ll know how to open my mailbox…

you’re preapproved heads right to the shredder

“Wisdom from the pain” I’m with him. Any envelope that says “important” on the front of it, never is and if the postage isn’t first class, that is also a throwaway. Shalom to all of my Jewish brothers and sisters on this Sabbath, wherever they may be……

I always check the postage, if its standard rate it automatically goes in file 13

On second thought I think Brutus learned that from Uncle Ted .

I look at the post mark. If it says non-profit, it goes in the recycle bin.

Urgent, important, lowest one time only offer from the competitive cable company. Until next month.

If someone has something urgent to tell another person, they would definitely not send it by the US mail!

He didn’t take personal.

Actually I got one that I thought was junk mail and initially tossed it unopened. When I was getting ready to put my collection of tossed mail and fliers in the recycling bin, it fell out. I was curious so I opened it. It was a refund check from my insurance company for $110.

Finally Brutus taught Wilberforce an important lesson.

I’m in favor of opening it all – not necessarily right away – maybe once a week. It doesn’t take much time to do a quick check. I then can also make sure what can/should go directly into recycling (and possibly remove anything that shouldn’t). [And set aside anything I want to look over more carefully.]

You may already be a winner…

I learned the hard way that where I live, water bills are addressed to “occupant.” I am not amused by them doing that. No, my water wasn’t shut off. I accidentally opened one up before that happened. The bills do look very much like junk mail.

“Actual envelope opening words of truth”, Brutus thinks…

then there’s the hand-delivered important notice from town hall that the clueless person from town hall doing the delivering delivers to a neighbor around the block…

This is the absolute truth!