Yet another day on the farm...
A day like every other. Its cloudy, I have a headache and I just got the mail. Speaking of the mail, what is the deal with our country? Here we are... A nation of millions, millions of which are constantly complaining about the worsening of our environment. As I sit here, I hold in my hand no less than 4 "ZERO PERCENT APR UNTIL NOVEMBER 2005" "invitations", two flyers and two different - ironically - environmental groups trying to solicit my donation. Hey, heres my donation Sierra Club - stop mailing me inch thick envelopes filled with paper that was, yup you guessed it, just recently a tree. Not to mention the nice glossy paper you are using that is literally clay that is spread onto the paper and then buffed. What is wrong with us? We hear day in and day out how horrible SUVs are, yet we simply accept junk mail as a given and toss it immediately into the trash. I literally threw out 8 things today. I kept ONE. Stacked, these 8 things rose about 6 inches high in my palm and all varied in length and width. Imagine if every person in america got this same mailing today?
Lets do some math, shall we? Accoring to the US Census there are 119,117,000 occupied homes in the USA. Lets assume that each one of them received 1/3rd the amount of mail I got today(about 2 inches). 119,117,000 x 2 = 238,234,000 inches of mail (in height only) was delivered today. 19.8 million FEET tall. 3760 MILES HIGH. Now, I am fully aware that my numbers are skewed. But does it matter if its 3000 miles? The scary part is I'm only basing this on household mail. We havent even touched upon the amount of mail going to businesses every day. Also, as an ex-mailman, I can tell you that there are people who receive a whole lot more than 2" of mail every day. Some people get FEET. Sure, some people get little to none, but all of this is besides the point.
Miles of mail being thrown out every day... I dunno about you, but this totally freaks me out. I realize that things like SUVs are literally a poison to our very existence. But trees help filter out that poison thus giving us some nice fresh air to breath while doing 75 down some residential street in our shiny new Hummer enroute to the dump to dispose of this weeks junk mail.
- Dex
Lets do some math, shall we? Accoring to the US Census there are 119,117,000 occupied homes in the USA. Lets assume that each one of them received 1/3rd the amount of mail I got today(about 2 inches). 119,117,000 x 2 = 238,234,000 inches of mail (in height only) was delivered today. 19.8 million FEET tall. 3760 MILES HIGH. Now, I am fully aware that my numbers are skewed. But does it matter if its 3000 miles? The scary part is I'm only basing this on household mail. We havent even touched upon the amount of mail going to businesses every day. Also, as an ex-mailman, I can tell you that there are people who receive a whole lot more than 2" of mail every day. Some people get FEET. Sure, some people get little to none, but all of this is besides the point.
Miles of mail being thrown out every day... I dunno about you, but this totally freaks me out. I realize that things like SUVs are literally a poison to our very existence. But trees help filter out that poison thus giving us some nice fresh air to breath while doing 75 down some residential street in our shiny new Hummer enroute to the dump to dispose of this weeks junk mail.
- Dex
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