Why doesn’t junk mail cost more to send
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presented the flaws of this type of system at Scaling Bitcoin 2015. I know there's a vid somewhere, it was really entertaining.
Has been tried a few times, always with serious issues. web.archive.org/web/2006112623
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youtu.be/30P55FXEVP8?t=
The issues with doing it for email don’t all apply to physical mail though. Physical already has spam control fees — they’re just not high enough.
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It’d be like if gmail sold email delivery to your mailbox to spammers and 95% of your email was spam. Better UX is to try to filter it for you. USPS doesn’t see it that way.
USPS could charge for no-spam accounts or charge more to spam.
I would absolutely and happily pay a monthly fee to not receive bulk mail!
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