An Average Days' Worth of Snail Mail

Here is a list of every piece of mail deposited in our snail mailbox today, a typical amount of paper,  addressed to me by some charitable organizations or political individuals.

Friends of the Smithsonian

Jill Biden

The Nature Conservancy

Government Accountability Project

Maryland Food Bank

ACLU

Doctors Without Borders

Charles Schumer

Defenders of wildlife

Russ Feingold

Time

Braille Books for Blind Children

I would honor some of these solicitations and donate if I had the means.  Some I would not.

Having made donations to organizations in the past, I am a ripe candidate for donor address mailing lists.  But, those donor days are gone forever.  I need to make sure I have enough to live on now, from day to day.

If I sent just the minimum donation for each of today's solicitations, it would come to $290!

I've mentioned this before.  At a monthly Toastmasters Meeting, I gave a speech about how I liked to receive junk mail.  (I really did at that time.)  I thought that the speech was well received.

At the next monthly meeting, a presentation was made.  I was presented with a giant trash bag holding lots of junk mail that my fellow Toastmasters had saved for me during the month.

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