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Since our physical mailboxes do not have spam filters, we must improvise with our snail mail.
I once took one of those postage paid return envelopes from a credit card company, glued it to a brick, and then put it back in the mail. I was hoping that the soliciting company would get charged the cost of mailing a brick. Even though my experiment failed, it sure made me feel better.
What I found to work, however, is to stuff all of the pages from the company's mailing and put it back into their prepaid envelope with a request to take me off their list. If the junk mail is obvious without having to even open the envelope, I simply write "return to sender" on the envelope and include the request to take me off their list on the envelope itself. It is the equivalent of marking an unwanted email as spam and it doesn't cost anything.
There are a few key companies responsible for most of the junk mail waste stream. Perhaps the best way to nearly eliminate these mailbox weeds is to pull them out by their root by taking action.
This article was inspired by Wa$ted.
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