most of the new boxes have a separate open hole under the box for newspapers, etc. and if it's on the lower part, no harm no foul but with no picture who knows
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).
Try putting up 10 mailboxes in front of your house to see what happens. :-)
If you don’t get a paper and you want to stop getting all the free trash mount you paper box backwards, or put a mouse trap in it. A fake snake or rat works well too!
But how does AARP send your your twice-monthly invitation to join?
Ding ding ding! That's what you do when dots start showing up on your stuff that you didn't put there.
AHA! Check your trees, signs, or any surface visible from the road for dots. Report back immediately. For those with boxes: Tampering with a mailbox is a federal offense. Remove the dots and contact your PO Postmaster immediately for furthur instructions.
This only relates to Post Office Boxes in post offices.
When I buy a mailbox at Home Depot and plant it at the end of my driveway; that is MY personal property; not my governments.
Not that many decades ago, most people in small towns got their mail at their post office in their own post office box. I can remember ours from about 1960 or so.
Having just googled “dots on mailbox”, I now realize that the dots are, in fact, death camp markers with discussions going back to 2005. Stormfront, that all knowing website for the seriously brain damaged, seems to have had the most discussion (it’s a government plot against the white gun owners, natch, and you should take them off your mailbox and put it on the mailbox of somebody you don’t like).
I used to read the New York Times for the laughs. I think some dufus reporter and editor once described a Barrett .50 as a semi-automatic machine gun. After awhile the laughs turned into general disgust over the inaccuracies even in the non-political articles.
The biggest state rag has editing and fact checking that put the New York Times to shame.
If the PO owns your mailbox ask them to replace it when some kid blows it up.
Not quite. The PO will not replace a damaged box or remove it if it is no longer in use. However it is protected from vandalism and from use by other than PO employees.
The government considers mailboxes their personal receptacle to be stuffed with whatever they deem appropriate. That is, any material bearing a PO stamp. All other material is contraband and its purveyors are subject to penalty.
Deliberate destruction of mailboxes is similarly subject to penalty. Removal of your personal box is a gray area. There is, as yet, no law requiring a citizen to receive material from the PO.
This is a federal, not a local issue. Hence, the stickers are a violation of federal law unless placed there by a PO employee or their representative. Proceed with extreme care.
most of the new boxes have a separate open hole under the box for newspapers, etc. and if it's on the lower part, no harm no foul but with no picture who knows
The laser will use the reflective dots as a guide to paint the target.
You ALSO can place other boxes out there for any other sort of reason you can think of.
If you don't want mail, don't put a box out there but don't expect the post office to save it up for you. Those "information" notices your creditors send to you will be returned and they'll stop mailing you the notices ~ and they'll probably cut off your account as well, but that's not the post office at work.
It could be a coding system to see whose home they will
save in case of a fire or emergency. Did you send in your donation to the VFD yet?
No newspaper tubes (know about them only from my detour through the great swamp of Mass.) to attract ornaments, and the mailbox is a in a cluster box down the street. Indeed, at one point there were no mailboxes other than at the post office when I moved into one place; the cluster box was planted three years after I moved in.
At one house, the HOA Nazis declared my locator dots to be an eyesore, so I had to pull them up
As for newspapers, the last one I remember seeing at the end of my driveway was the New York Journal-American. I bought The Wall Street Journal at the train station every day during my city-commute years from the news-butchers. The local Sunday paper I bought weekly at the grocery store with my other shopping, when I thought it was worthwhile to do so. I found it very annoying the one time I tried to have a paper delivered to my apartment early in my career; it wouldn't be there many mornings. So I canceled the subscription. Never went back.
Targets, by caliber.
LOL!
I delivered papers years ago. I don’t recall any such system used by me or my fellow paper carriers. We news carriers pretty much had our routes memorized. After a while, you could deliver your route without looking at a list of houses getting the paper.
Maybe nowadays, these news carriers are trained to look for a dot??? Maybe they have “dumbed down” the job of delivering papers so that these carriers don’t have to think???? Who knows???
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