Talk:Bulk mail

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Does anyone have information about how to create a national do not mail list?

Moved here from junk mail — bulk mail is a more appropriate, encyclopedic term. Wally 14:59, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

More than a definition?[edit]

Does anyone know about the actual processing of bulk mail, whether in the United States or elsewhere? Why exactly it can take ten weeks to get to its destination?

Legal issues[edit]

We could do with finding some decent information on the laws in a selection of companies related to the sending of bulk mail. We also ought to make a clear distinction between personally addressed junk mail and door-to-door circulars.

Here in the UK at least, personally addressed junk mail clearly stems from violations of the Data Protection Act to a fair extent. And Mailing Preference Service is listwashing taken to the extreme. -- Smjg 12:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, what we would generally call junk mail here in Australia is the door-to-door type. Supermarket, hardware store and department store catalogues etc. None of it is addressed, and can be opted out by merely putting a "No Junk Mail" sign/sticker on the letterbox. --Paul 16:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Misspelling Stereotype[edit]

Ok, not exactly a huge deal, but the Friends reference is wrong; Chandler gets his TV Guide with the name Ms Chnandler Bong (unless TV Guide is considered junk mail? I don't live in the US, but I'm under the impression it's not). There is that episode of Seinfeld where Kramer bricks up his mailbox so he doesn't get junk mail, though. tmimh 01:12, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Bulk mail and direct marketing[edit]

It seems to me that most of the information in this article should be moved to Direct marketing and that this article should concentrate on the processing of bulk mail by mailers and postal authorities. After all, "bulk mail" and "junk mail" are, strictly speaking, not synonyms. Thoughts? Doctor Whom 17:33, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

To the above end, I've completely redone the "External links" section. I have removed the following:

I have also reinstated the first USPS link, since I believe that the article should have at least one citation to a reliable source that is actually about the topic of the article. Doctor Whom 00:20, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The USPS link is dead today (2/27/09)J.quasimodo (talk) 12:09, 27 February 2009 (UTC)j.quasimodo[reply]

Misapplication on Internet?[edit]

Considering that bulk mail involves 'mass produced mail, sent at a reduced cost' it seems like the word could not be used to refer to e-mail in any capacity. I remember Hotmail used to have a 'bulk mail' section. Was that a misapplication of the term? --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 20:59, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-junk bulk mail?[edit]

Could we have some examples of non-junk bulk mail? For example when a phone company does its monthly phone bill print, it's not junk mail but it's still bulk mail right?