Email spam rose nearly 10% in the month of October. Many spammers are using image based messages in the body which go undetected by the spam filters. Microsoft's Outlook 2003 has a pretty good junk-mail filter, although recently two important emails made their way in there. So I have to quickly glance through my junk-mail folder every day. I have been dealing with spam for over ten years. I shut down one of my most favorite email addresses because I was receiving at least 1000 pieces of spam per day. Spam is annoying but I have learned to deal with it. As spammers get smarter I am hopeful the filters will get smarter too.

What is really starting to bother me is the snail-mail spam. With each move I have made in the past 5 years the junk mailers have grown immensely. I hate checking my mail because it is NOTHING but junk that I have to throw out. Occasionaly there is a coupon or an ad for something worth wild but the trade off isn't enough. I would love to not have to dig through 10 pound of flyers for a bill I don't want in the first place. How is this even legal? Isn't tampering with the mail a felony? I am not allowed to place things in my neighbors mailbox. In fact I am not allowed to open a mailbox that isn't mine. The Post Office needs to focus on delivering the mail, not the spam.

If the Post Office was privatized it would end this problem. It would also solve the lost mail and unreliable delivery times. All they need to do is raise the price of sending first class mail. It's not like they won't do that in the next few years anyway. Can you imagine having mail pickup/delivery in the morning and afternoon? The PO could then charge for a spam-free service. Imagine that world…the only thing better would a be a world where EVERYONE looked like Alessandra Ambrosio.