What Do You Do with YOUR Bank Junk Mail?

Nobody’s Opinion: Here’s a pet peeve of mine that has NOT been on anybody’s list of complaints that I have ever read anywhere. And I was just wondering if it bothers anybody else.

It’s about junk mail…from banks. Oh, so you get it too?

Funny about that.

I’m going to make this short. (You’re welcome.)

Everyday, and I mean everyday, I get at least one envelope from some bank, offering me checks to use to pay off or transfer money from other credit cards in order to pay off debt, or to use at some low interest rate at whatever I choose.

And everyday, I pile them up. And then at the end of the month, I throw them out. And I have to shred them, which takes up time I’d rather be using for something else.

Like…say…getting rid of junk e-mail. (I know, it never ends)

Okay, I admit, there was one time I was glad to get them. Several years ago when they decided to close down sixteen city schools, and build new ones for the kids out in the North St. Louis suburbs where I live, the people living in those Northern suburbs had to pay for kids and the move. It was redistribution at its finest hour, but it wasn’t called that…this was B.O.…Before Obama.

Property taxes went up so high, that they had to shut the courthouses down in all the many counties, due to the angry mob of people protesting. Old ladies on Social Security checks went into cardiac arrest.

You see, we were NOT forewarned.

I didn’t protest ---I just used one of my nifty—Zero percent for two years offers, send us the $75 transfer free, thank you very much...bank envelopes.

At the time, I was glad of the offer…but, come on. We are talking serious trash here. They complain about the plastic bags, and the landfills being overwhelmed, but how much is that trash filling the spaces up between the dirty diapers, shredded bank, junk mail?

I just picked up a big pile from my floor next to my desk. The pile of bank junk mail is now; on my lap…it’s starting to eat my thighs… (Just kidding)

(On second thought, I might get a kick out of that.)

I’m going to count them now…hold on…okay… I counted exactly ninety envelopes, and each one contains at least four pages of unsigned checks for me to use at my convenience. That’s over one thousand envelopes a year.

So, here’s the question: The banks are not only ruining the planet with their Freddie, Fannie, and bail-out schemes; they are probably single handedly cutting down trees in the rain forests just for the paper. And yet Al Gore has said…nothing.

Does Barney Frank even care? Does a bear need a tree in the woods?

Am I pretty silly for even worrying about this because somewhere, some American is working hard, printing up bank junk mail, and feeding his children? Or should I not worry because it’s probably some Chinese kid stuffing those envelopes, and nobody is concerned about that silly old news anymore?

And why are the banks, which ran out of money, spending so much money on printing this stuff? Or are they secretly gathering it from the trash and selling it to China to be recycled to their populations?

Will I EVER get to see the great Redwood trees?

What has that got to do with anything you say?

You’re right…nothing.

Okay, so I’m not perfect. I'm just sick of bank, junk mail.

It’s just another reason that most Americans think that whatever you hear coming from a politicians lips, is always about the money. If they really cared about cleaning up the environment they’d make a law against junk mail from banks. Advertising is one thing, but bank junk overload should be a crime..right up there with Al Gore being seen anywhere in public.

(Nobody makes stuff up about Al Gore, sorry.)