Some junk you can unsubscribe from. Those that are from more "reputable" places, that you probably signed up for. You may have inadvertantly signed up by not unchecking "send me newsletter" type of boxes. By unsubscribing from some of the more unsavory type of junk mail (the viagra type nasty stuff or money scam ones) you are proving that you are indeed a live address and you will get MORE junk mail. Proceed cautiously!

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Surely I'm not the only one????? That feels a bit like persecution, lol. It happened AGAIN today. I had an alert for two new messages. I went through both the old and new inboxes, and the TWO OLDEST messages were showing as new. These weren't even messages I had received, but two that I had SENT...in 2016! This seems to be a glitch in the new mailbox, since it's there they keep reappearing as new. I'm not even going to bother with reporting the issue at this point, as it's basically an exercise in futility. Sooooooooo...if anyone sends me a message and you don't get an answer right away, it's because I'm ignoring the alerts! Apologies in advance. John

I recognized three or four people there, and one in particular that became good friends with my niece. We used to correspond quite a bit as well. I've never gotten the Christmas mass letters, but I would love to. I like any kind of communication from people that I know, and I especially like cheerful information in December. I may have sent a few of these myself, but they were mainly to explain changes of address and not much else. I sent people photos of my house in Cathedral City a couple of years ago with the hope that some would come to visit, but that hasn't happened yet, except for my sister. My mother would get some of the bragging letters from friends or relatives of hers, and she especially did not like them, but I think that is because they made her jealous, which may have been the point of those letters. I think she felt like she was in competition with some of her cousins. I wished she would have kept in better contact with more of her cousins so that I could have seen more of them. I also especially liked reading the letters that our cousins wrote. One in particular was a gold digger, who had divorced her first rich husband (and father of her three children) and had married the president of an Italian steel corporation. She would talk about how bored she had become with flying across the Atlantic between her villa in Venice and the brownstone in Manhattan, plus country house in Connecticut. I only sent seven cards this year, and I used to send a lot more. In the past, I printed the addresses, but this year I hand wrote all of them and inside I wished people health and happiness. Sometimes people call me after they get cards from me, and I like that. This year I bought "money cards" by accident - mainly because they were the only "Seasons Greetings" cards I saw at CVS last week, and so I had to X out the "insert money here" text on the inside - except for two cards in which I inserted some extra Mexican pesos that I happened to have in my wallet. One was a 50 peso note that I thought was pretty, and the other was a 20 peso note that I enclosed with the note: "I think this money may be expired." I did not bother to explain that I had bought the "money cards" by accident, as I decided that that was not necessary. I still liked the cards, and I didn't want people to know how careless I had been when I selected the cards.