LaPlata Post Office Innovative

Special from the Old Weird Herald — November 13, 2014
(Durango) Postal workers have developed an interesting solution to the presence of mounds of junk mail received at that agency. According to Sally B. Sortear, special assistant general to the Assistant Postmaster General the answer to the problem was right there all the long.
“We simply throw the junk mail in the trash,” she said.
Postal regulations prohibit this practice since the bulk mailers pay annual fees to send their garbage through the mail. The post office contends that the fees keep rates down for other customers.
Durango plans to throw the junk mail directly into the trashcans in the lobby so that people might still pick it up if they choose to do so. Determining what is junk and what is not can be a problem.
“A flyer from some big box outlet may be junk to some but a treasure to others,” said Sortear.
The move comes on the heels of a Congressional investigation into the mental health of federal workers.
“Here at the post office my coworkers experience depression after seeing all the morning’s sorting in the trash,” she added. “When our clients overstuff trash receptacles it makes us feel less than functional but when they remark as to the absence of junk mail, it gives us a sense of well being.
– Arlo Civitate