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NWF's love affair with the junk mail industry
More on Catalog Choice and the Do Not Mail registry |
Glenn Hurowitz |
20 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| Yesterday's Washington Post had a fascinating article by Lyndsey Layton about how the U.S. Postal Service is teaming up with the junk mail lobby to stamp out (heh heh) efforts to create state or national 'Do Not Mail' lists that would allow people to opt out of receiving commercial solicitations. That's no surprise: junk mail is big business, and the postal service, the paper companies, and the junk mailers don't want anything that would interfere with their cash f ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, green living, National Wildlife Federation (all these topics) |
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