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grv413 t1_j2449iv wrote

Reply to comment by BoopBoop20 in For all that is right in the world, time to take down the signs! by PACubsFan23

It actually is illegal to put anything that’s not US-Mail in someone’s mailbox.

https://about.usps.com/news/state-releases/tx/2010/tx_2010_0909.htm

(I only know this because I hand out political literature and literally our only rule is you cannot put anything in a persons mailbox). It has to be in between their doors, on their door handle, wedged in a crack in a door. That’s why people that come and try to sell you things have door tags instead of placing them in your mailbox.

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Kabloosh75 t1_j2455a2 wrote

Great. Love technicalities. Still would prefer to not have trash being attached to my door.

All the fricken trees ruined by all this junk mail and flyers by political candidates is crazy. I don't know how much I've just tossed straight to the trash. Credit card companies are the worst though. So much junk mail.

There is just no easy way to get actual mail sorted so that you never have delivered to you.

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BoopBoop20 t1_j246t3t wrote

Do you know how many times I’ve opted out of paper billing and just went paperless just to have said bills delivered to my mail box…after I have paid them?! It’s absurd the amount of waste that is passed around through the postal service. I wish people would start looking at the bigger picture and not just “well it’s only one bill or one flyer that I sent out”. It’s yours, plus theirs, plus that guys power washing business, plus that landscaper, plus the bills for the next month..it’s ridiculous

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BoopBoop20 t1_j245aid wrote

Good thing there was a stamp on it 😘

Lol jk, I honestly don’t care. I got the signs down, it would’ve been worse if I climbed their fence and took them down myself but I didn’t.

Stop being asshats.

Edit: also, could you not find anything newer than 2010 for your source? That’s 13 years old…

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grv413 t1_j24dwk4 wrote

Agree the signs are annoying, was just trying to clarify the laws around putting things into a mailbox since the person above you was incorrect as well. I actually think since you put a stamp on it, what you did would be legal, but I'm not a postman. Here's the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service Domestic Mail Manual itself:

https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/508.htm#ep1051804

Except under 3.2.11, the receptacles described in 3.1.1 may be used only for matter bearing postage. Other than as permitted by 3.2.10, or 3.2.11, no part of a mail receptacle may be used to deliver any matter not bearing postage, including items or matter placed upon, supported by, attached to, hung from, or inserted into a mail receptacle. Any mailable matter not bearing postage and found as described above is subject to the same postage as would be paid if it were carried by mail.

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