Posted on 08/28/2011 5:12:46 AM PDT by rawhide
What are these about? Somebody has put mysterious dots on the mailboxes in my subdivision in the last day or two. These are thick reflective dots about an inch in diameter. The one dot on my mailbox is yellow. My next door neighbor has a red dot. My other next door neighbor has 3 green dots. Neighbor down the street has 2 greens and a blue on theirs. They are on both sides of the mailbox, stuck right onto the mailbox itself, not the post. I drove a little throughout the town and many mailboxes have no dots on their mailbox, while their next door neighbor has the dot(s).
Soylent Green
It’s the secret police listing of people to purge.
Just kidding.
In mobile home parks in Florida, the USPS puts a red dot on the mailboxes of the snowbirds when they are gone for the summer. They look like paper to me, though, as they get faded pretty quickly.
Inside joke: There are five dots. (There are five lights). Who can identify what that comes from?
IMO
The markings were used by hobos during the great depression. They didn’t mark the house. The marked trees and posts leading up to the house(or business) from highways and railroads. The markings were in use as long as the hobo lifestyle was common, which ceased to be in the 1970s I believe.
Probably...but most people in most areas also get those free "shopper" newspapers...or sometimes a weekly newspaper put out by a local paper designed to get more ads to you and possibly entice you to buy their daily paper. By default everyone gets these and they will deliver them unless you request to be taken off the delivery route.
I know because I used to deliver them a few years back....
Probably...but most people in most areas also get those free "shopper" newspapers...or sometimes a weekly newspaper put out by a local paper designed to get more ads to you and possibly entice you to buy their daily paper. By default everyone gets these and they will deliver them unless you request to be taken off the delivery route.
I know because I used to deliver them a few years back....
Pull them off and see if anyone come to arrest you.
Star trek. Capitan Jean Juan Luc Luck Piccard is tortured until he agrees that he sees the lights(”for a monment I really did see them!”)
The guy down the street who has 2 green dots, a blue and a red, what does he get?
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If the people who live in these houses are ‘Middle Easterners’ who wear the dots on their foreheads.
this is the code.
2 GREEN Dots means you get 2 7/11’s.
1 BLUE Dot means you get a Gas Station.
1 RED Dot means you get your hack license.
So this family hit the Trifecta with a bonus 7/11.
Buy a box of dots and start putting them on mailboxes and see how long it is before you get arrested for defacing property.
Your mailbox is YOUR MAILBOX. Rip them off and complain to the newspaper.
Thanks, now I have coffee up my nose. LOL!
Right! You win your own set of dots...
As I recall it was borrowed from Orwell’s 1984.
Perhaps your HOA is grading how you take care of your home.
Another possiblity is a bunch of street racers are marking
your street with reflectors to race at night. ;-)
You’re welcome. A coffee enema for the nose is the best way to start your Sunday.
From the U.S. Postal Inspector’s website:
“Mailboxes are considered federal property, and federal law (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1705), makes it a crime to vandalize them (or to injure, deface or destroy any mail deposited in them). Violators can be fined up to $250,000, or imprisoned for up to three years, for each act of vandalism.”
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