We need a do not mail list from the incumbent politicians that send mail at taxpayer expense. If they want the message to get out then have a meeting, go door to door or hold a press confrence. We get enough in the newsprint, we don’t need our tax dollars used to mail pieces of propaganda.
Do Not Mail Bills Take State Capitals by Storm
Thanks to the determined efforts of New Dreamers like you, legislators in nine states have proposed junk mail opt-out registries modeled after Do Not Call. In the last week alone, Washington state senators held hearings in Olympia, Colorado’s NBC, ABC, and CBS affiliates all covered a Do Not Mail press conference in Denver, and Washington, DC’s NBC 4 aired an excellent piece on the growing effort.
Will you email your state legislators in support of a Do Not Mail opt-out registry?
If you live in one of the nine states listed below, your state representatives are currently debating a recently proposed bill. Simply click on your state name and we’ll take you to a message you can personalize and fire off. For other states, it still may not be too late for your legislator to introduce a bill this session, so please click the “all other states” link below.
States with pending legislation:
Colorado
Connecticut
Hawaii
Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
New York
Texas
Washington
In appreciation,
Julia, Rose, Seán, and Steve - New American Dream’s Outreach team
p.s. Please pass this action alert on to friends. You know we’re counting on you to spread the word because we don’t use junk mail to promote any of our campaigns!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDo Not Mail Opt-Out Law would be fair to everyone.
The proposed recent “Do not mail” is an Opt-Out law. Only those not desiring advertising mail need opt-out. Anyone desiring advertising mail can do nothing - and continue to receive it. Why deny those wishing to avoid advertising mail the power to do so?
I do not consider handling unwanted advertising placed against my will on my personal property to be a civic obligation!
The US Supreme Court said in the Rowan case in 1970, ““In today’s [1970] complex society we are inescapably captive audiences for many purposes, but a sufficient measure of individual autonomy must survive to permit every householder to exercise control over unwanted mail. To make the householder the exclusive and final judge of what will cross his threshold undoubtedly has the effect of impeding the flow of ideas, information, and arguments that, ideally, he should receive and consider. Today’s merchandising methods, the plethora of mass mailings subsidized by low postal rates, and the growth of the sale of large mailing lists as an industry in itself have changed the mailman from a carrier of primarily private communications, as he was in a more leisurely day, and have made him an adjunct of the mass mailer who sends unsolicited and often unwanted mail into every home. It places no strain on the doctrine of judicial notice to observe that whether measured by pieces or pounds, Everyman’s mail today is made up overwhelmingly of material he did not seek from persons he does not know. And all too often it is matter he finds offensive.â€
Furthermore, the Supreme Court said, “the mailer’s right to communicate is circumscribed only by an affirmative act of the addressee giving notice that he wishes no further mailings from that mailer.
To hold less would tend to license a form of trespass and would make hardly more sense than to say that a radio or television viewer may not twist the dial to cut off an offensive or boring communication and thus bar its entering his home. Nothing in the Constitution compels us to listen to or view any unwanted communication, whatever its merit; we see no basis for according the printed word or pictures a different or more preferred status because they are sent by mail.â€
We need a nationwide “Do Not Mail†law to create a one-stop, convenient place for homeowners to give senders the aforementioned affirmative notice that we do not want certain kinds of mail sent to our homes.
http://www.newdream.org/emails/ta19.html
Signed,
Ramsey A Fahel
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