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[-] sam@southampton.social 14 points 2 months ago

@The_Picard_Maneuver Here in the UK, sure we get Spam mail but there's red labels and stuff for really important mail from the government and things and most of the time it's just telling you to pay for a TV licence that you wouldn't use as you don't pay for live TV and just watch YouTube.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

If there was a way to highlight official government mail, spam mailers would use it to fool people into thinking it's something important. I get tons of spam that looks like something official.

[-] sam@southampton.social 0 points 2 months ago

@Semi_Hemi_Demigod They have a few things such as a return address to a government building on the envelope along with the envelope actually being a certain type that I haven't seen with any other mail.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Sorry, I meant that if such a policy were implemented in the USA it would be abused by spammers. There would be a Supreme Court case where the spammers win because they used a slightly different color and it would suck.

We're a young democracy and not very good at it.

[-] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It already is. Spammers use the tear-off style envelopes used for your checks or tax returns and many other 'secure' mail. The Republican party near me sent out mailers that looked like traffic bills saying how you may have to turn in your firearms (they were pretending it was from the local Democratic party). It's already fucked here.

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