MYRTLE BEACH, SC
(WMBF) - Recently Ted Fortenberry shared his opinion on so called "junk
mail."
I agree we should not
simply waste our natural resources, however, cutting out marketing mail would
have significant repercussions, like job loss and loss of business for many
local companies like mine, Duplicates Ink.
Consider This:
Without business marketing mails, which is the number one revenue source for
the postal service, what do you think the cost of one stamp would be? Five
dollars?
The primary raw material
used in direct mail is a renewable resource, paper. And there are 20% more
trees in the U.S. today than on the first Earth Day in 1970.
As for the
environmental impact, direct mail makes up less than 3% of municipal solid
waste. Think how long it takes discarded TVs, computers, keyboards and phones
to decompose at a landfill.
So if you want to be
more green, buy a book instead of an e-reader and send a handwritten note
instead of an email.
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