Advertising by post: nobody wants this | Letters

Daniel Owen would welcome the demise of postal marketing, while Marlene McAndrew asks why charities repeatedly send appeals to the same peopleI am prepared to accept the demise of letter writing discussed in your editorial (The Guardian view on sending letters: the writing’s on the wall, 22 December) if it also means the abolition of all forms of postal marketing.In an online age, the obscene environmental cost alone of printing and distributing large volumes of paper material, 99% of