Are you the owner of a Post Office box? Are you going to pick up your vacation mail that’s been on hold at the post office?
Now you can recycle the mail that you open and read onsite at your local post office. You can also recycle the junk mail, catalogs and credit card offers that you don’t read.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has placed blue recycling containers labeled READ, RESPOND, RECYCLE YOUR MAIL at each location. The containers are locked to protect the privacy of your mail.
A source of revenue for the post office, the “recycling program is expanding to 1,844 new sites, bringing the total of participating post offices to more than 5,900. The program builds on the success of similar programs that have been ongoing in the northeast part of the United States for more than 10 years,” according to USPS. “Lobby recycling helps divert paper waste from landfills, reducing the amount of virgin fiber from trees needed to produce more paper and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from solid waste disposal.”
Find a mail recycling location near you.
“The postal service is the core of the trillion dollar mailing industry that employes more than 8 million people,” according to the USPS web site. “If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 26th in the 2008 Fortune 500.”
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