Electioneering Spam

It is election time where I am. Both local council and Scottish Parliament.  This in itself is good news.  Sometimes I feel that it is the only occasion at which I can effectively hold politicians to account.

However I have a huge issue with this period.  Today through the letter box came a total of 24 pieces of electioneering spam, yes 24.  Most of which went straight into the bag for recycling. At least it was all delivered at the same time and by the postman, so there wasn't a steady stream of people wading through the block of flats.

I was trying to figure this out if there are 24 pieces of paper of varying quality at an average weight of 2 grams (a good estimate, I think), there are 16 flats in the block, and it is number 16 and the last one in the street, and they are all the same style, so that leaves me with 12.29 kilograms of electioneering spam in my street alone, imagine that across the thousands of homes in Edinburgh and we are talking an awful lot of Spam, and I hate spam.

Can anyone tell me how many trees this campaign will have cost? So much for politicians running a "Green Campaign".  And the irony is, this is the third time I have had the exact same leaflet through the door from the Green Party candidate!