Following the general election, you would think there would have been a decrease in junk mail.

However, the Monday after, I received a pile of junk mail overwhelming my paper shredder with seven requests for donations of money suggesting the amount I should give.

No matter how good or beneficial an organization, I just can not afford all these request for my money. Or I soon would be in the poor house.

And what also is hard to understand is they, the junk mailers, only have to pay low postal rates while I have to pay full fare postal rates to mail a letter.

If our politicians would increase their postal rates instead of raising our rates, we would definitely see a decrease in junk mail.

Dick Thurnau

North Highline