Why does the post office care...

[Midlander]

if someone puts something in my mailbox?

I bought it. I installed it. I maintain it. Yet they seem to feel that only US mail can be put inside it?

Why is that?

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: Midlander
if someone puts something in my mailbox?

I bought it. I installed it. I maintain it. Yet they seem to feel that only US mail can be put inside it?

Why is that?

govt sponsored monopoly FTW

 

[Viper GTS]

You went wrong when you assumed the mailbox was yours.

Viper GTS

 

[Midlander]

Oh, yeah. And it's on my property, too.

 

[Baked]

Because you can be a cell and use your mailbox to distribute info you and your group doesn't want the government to know.

 

[zixxer]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
You went wrong when you assumed the mailbox was yours.

Viper GTS

 

[Adica]

Originally posted by: Midlander
if someone puts something in my mailbox?

I bought it. I installed it. I maintain it. Yet they seem to feel that only US mail can be put inside it?

Why is that?

Assuming you want a serious answer, this is why.

 

[FoBoT]

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html...ode18/usc_sec_18_00001725----000-.html

Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits any mailable matter such as statements of accounts, circulars, sale bills, or other like matter, on which no postage has been paid, in any letter box established, approved, or accepted by the Postal Service for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any mail route with intent to avoid payment of lawful postage thereon, shall for each such offense be fined under this title.

 

[Epic Fail]

if they don't keep a tab on it, how does the postman stuff all the junk mails in the mail box??

 

[FoBoT]

you can get banned for that also

you have 7 posts and the spam avatar? WWYBYWB ?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Just put another one next to it and don't register it as a mailbox.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Just put another one next to it and don't register it as a mailbox.

but that one can't be in the right of way, it has to actually be on your property. typically mailboxes are in the right of way that belongs to the city/county, etc

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you can get banned for that also

you have 7 posts and the spam avatar? WWYBYWB ?

and started a YAGT to boot.

 

[boomerang]

Wait until the local kids with nothing to do womp on it with a baseball bat. The Post Office will care less about that. Except that they'll inform you they're ceasing delivery to your damaged mailbox.

They for some reason think it's my responsibility to clear the shoulder of the road by my mailbox. The road commission is responsible for that. But if we get a big snow, and my delivery person has her panties in a bunch that day, well, another notice that my delivery is going to be suspended.

My last house they wanted the box moved to the other side of the road. Two months later they wanted it moved back. Once again, another notice.

Don't get me started on the Postal Service because I have more stories.

 

[cubby1223]

someone's post got deleted...

Anyways, there are plenty of reasons why they don't allow anyone other than the owner or postal employees to touch a mailbox - theft for one. Who's to tell the difference between someone handing out flyers, versus someone checking mailboxes to steal checks & other stuff?

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you can get banned for that also

you have 7 posts and the spam avatar? WWYBYWB ?

and started a YAGT to boot.

who had 7 posts and the spam avatar? I didn't see anyone in this thread w/ those criteria.

 

[KarenMarie]

my father and i use my mailbox for notes, letters and invoices to each other... almost daily, for years. no one has said a word to me.

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: FoBoT
you can get banned for that also

you have 7 posts and the spam avatar? WWYBYWB ?

and started a YAGT to boot.

who had 7 posts and the spam avatar? I didn't see anyone in this thread w/ those criteria.

Yea, thought I was going crazy when I didn't see who he was talking about