Junk mail Ethics?

In the technology savy world we are in now, spam - a form of junk mail - has often clogged up our emails reduce us of our over reliant techno junk daily funtions. We are often incessed by such mail and no matter how many spam blockers and junk mail clearance, it seems never to stop and to a point where the email ceases to lose its very basic functionality - to receive email; important ones mind you. And email is a very precious commodity especially for us who cant afford to pay email providers nuts for that extra service or function to enhance and reduce such intrusion.

Like email, our normal letter box as graciously provided by the housing board is also never free from junk mail.

Advertising they say. Cheap too.

The whole story of it is that such physical matter doesn't have spam blockers or automatic junk mail removal. If spam gets to you and makes you so incessed, think about the unnecessary flyers left on the floor of our buildings rite smack in front of the elevator (lift).

If you are disgusted by the amount of space spam takes up in your email, then think of the eye sore-and i mean eye sore - these flyers and pieces of 'toilet paper' (hell! we don't even want to use them as toilet paper) cause on the anger and disgust scale.

Pieces and pieces of crushed up paper strewn on the floor.
Dang!
What's happening to the gracious society we are talking about?
What's happening to the so called clean city of Singapore?
What's happening to us?

Foreign nationals? You blame it on foreign workers?
What ever happened to our educated societal Singapore?
The educated ones are as much guilty as their foreign counterparts.

We are quick to blame foreigners.
We are quick to blame the bins.
We are quick to blame cleaners.

For Pete's (whoever he is) sake, there's a bin there!

And as today's gracious goverment and technology for the nation's people,
the housing board has provided a catch to the letterbox opening to block unwanted junk mail from entering and has so far prevented unwanted entries.
Why can't these people put the catch on? Don't know how to use. Hell, the board even put a simple one piece manual in the mailbox for your convinience. It does not take a genius how to work it out.

Please keep it clean.

I am so tempted to stake out to find the culprits and rake up all their junk mail and dump them at their doorsteps with the labels " I believe these belong to you!"

If only we take that extra mm and a joule of effort...

Fallin

- Even the best fall down sometimes -