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I hate junk mail. It is a waste of paper and my time.

So, after a few years, I finally have made the prime-time Swiss junk mailing list. Now I get all sorts of silly things. Because quickly scanning the post is difficult with my weak German skills, I frequently find myself opening letters and mid paragraph with a dictionary in hand before the little 'junk' meter registers. Maybe about a third of it squeezes past and I am suckered into reading it.

The day I can master my junk mail is they day I will say "I speak German" to other people with a straight face.

Question:
Junk mail in your host country...

Choices:
Excites me! Everything is so new....
We don't have junk mail (I'm waaaay out there)
can be spotted a kilometer away (oops, was that my visa renewal paperwork?)
is like at home--I can weed it out like a local
sucks me in, frequently, just like you Stoo
is sitting in a pile with everything else that i forgot to deal with

 

It took me a while before I could even recognize my name in Japanese -- at least with German you know whether it's addressed to you or "resident."

Once I got more of a handle on the language, the only junk mail I'd "read" was the stuff from FujiGrand (the local supermarket). I found it a good way to increase my food vocabulary.

Taping "Keine Werbung, bitte" on the mailbox helps, maybe the Swiss don't do that since they are all special, but its still the sneaky letters and all that get through.

I never get that much mail though so I find it exciting to receive the letters from the credit companies and television viewing collections authority.