In the days of e-filing of taxes and online bill payment systems one would think that the USPS would be all over supporting proposed legislation like this.

Assemblywoman Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) recently introduced a bill that would require companies that mail CDs or DVDs in unsolicited bulk to include self-addressed, stamped envelopes. That would easily allow people who don't want to receive another offer for 1,000 free minutes of AOL, for instance, to mail the CD back to the company or to a processing plant that recycles CDs.

The postal service is fighting an uphill battle as more and more transactions are taking place on the web. I suspect that future rate increases will simply push more and more transactions and communications to the web and package delivery competitors.

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