One Man's "Admail" is Another Man's Junk

Canada Post calls it admail. We live in a large apartment building, so post is delivered to one of the many boxes located in the lobby. Over the course of the last few years, we've found increasingly less reason to open it. Of course email replaced paper missives a decade ago. More recently however, we've turned off all paper billing as it only confirms what we see online with banks, utilities, and on other monthly statements.

More and more, we came to notice that circulars and flyers began to dominate the space behind the little, locked door. There's a big problem there though. We get these in the free, local newspapers. So, it started to get really irritating to open the mailbox to find only duplicate, unaddressed materials. We found that admail simply was another name for junk.

Consequently, I turned to the Internet to find out how to stop delivery of all unaddressed items by Canada Post. It was easy! All I needed to do was inform them with a note in the box.



And, by God, it worked! We were in Mexico for a week and came back to find a completely empty box! Yay. That seemed like the best Christmas present we could have received.

Holiday greetings are best sent over the telephone or, perhaps, by Facebook. Or here: