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Originally Posted by ReuvenNY
The "Bulk Mail" term used by the USPS, is "paid spam". The companies resorting to Bulk Mail usually buy mailing lists from specialized companies and use them to mail magazines, advertizements and other solicitations. But because they pay for it, people are more forgiving. Bulk email is free and therefore overused and as such more annoying.
Personally, in my book - any "Bulk Mail" by definition includes unsolicited emails and is SPAM!
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The term "bulk mail" refers to larger quantities of mail prepared for mailing at reduced postage. In Business Mail 101, the term "bulk mail" means commercial First-Class Mail and advertising mail (called "Standard Mail" by the Postal Service). Commercial prices are available for other classes of mail, too. The Postal Service uses the terms "bulk" and "presorted" interchangeably.
http://pe.usps.com/businessmail101/g...d/bulkmail.htm
Magazines you've ordered, you consider Spam. Therefore mailing lists you are a member of, you consider Spam
This is why we need to correct generic terms. UCE is Spam. Bulk Mail is 'large amounts of email'. And actually, with many providers limiting the amount of mail an account can send - it's not free. Either the sender has to build their own system, or pay for a relay service.
The worst are users who sign up for crap, and then instead of unsubscribing, they report it as Spam. Unsubscribiing does not alert spammers to the address being real - that's hilarious. If Spammers cared if the address was real, they wouldn't forge the MAIL FROM, and would actually manage any bounces they received. Real Spammers just flood. If the MAIL FROM is real, it's just dumped into a dummy mailbox, which fills and then email gets rejected.
Those users muddy the waters, and cause legitimate services additional trouble. I actively tell senders to drop AOL users from their lists. Those users will report wedding invitations.