It’s not entirely ridiculous.
All it takes is one recipient disgruntled with the message to complain to the local postmaster.
Granted, they’re unlikely to haul you off for it, but it is a federal offense.
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Well I guess I have reasonable neighbors because not once in the 30 years I have been doing this has a person turned me in…and that includes the postman!
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Lately it’s been pretty hit and miss with the post office. I mean like regularly getting neighbors mail and them getting mine. Even though we’ve all lived here for 25-40 plus years. Pretty sure I could put an opossum in my neighbors mailbox and they (the carrier) wouldn’t notice or care.
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while i agree with you 100 percent, a little consideration is nice. July 4 is July 4… Not July 1 though July 10 at all hours of the evening Makes it hard to make sure ones animals are prepared and safe when the s*^& goes on for weeks. But then I know asking some people to be considerate is a big ask, so here we are.
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The mail carrier has been known to confiscate packages left in mail boxes and hold them for ransom aka postage.
I am trying Fenwick hoods this year. Fireworks are illegal here but that does not stop a bunch of my neighbors. They started last weekend.
LOL, there is that too…wrong mail constantly here
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Considering the post office doesn’t give a flying fruit bat about the people within the post office cutting open mail and stealing, I don’t think putting a flyer in a mailbox really matters. Amazon drivers put stuff in mailboxes all the time.
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just a note, I used to work as a contractor for the US Postal Inspector’s office. I help them designing and install access control equipment on the bulk mail facilities.
A USPS-compliant mailbox that is installed by a homeowner and ready for use, it’s considered federal property . Prior to installation, however, mailboxes aren’t federal property
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and if they get caught doing it Amazon/ups/fed ex gets a huge fine from the post office
I guess in the grand scheme of things, unless my mailbox is exploding or filled with killer bees, I really don’t care what goes in it or who uses it and the post office doesn’t either. Sometimes I don’t even check it for days, so they obviously see that Amazon etc has left stuff in there
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My favorite was the guy lighting off M80s, or whatever the giant ones that shake the windows are, that aren’t even pretty.
In the middle of APRIL.
At 8 in the morning.
How the heck is one supposed to “prepare accordingly” for that?
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Where I used to live, the professional level fireworks being set off in the subdivision that bordered our small horse community went on for a full month around Fourth of July, a week at the new year, and random other times. On the Fourth itself, I borrowed space in my neighbor’s barn as the most frightened of my horses was much more reactive to the visual aspect than the noise, so we put all three horses in the barn and hung sheets over the windows. They would happily munch hay and hang out with their alpaca buddies. I didn’t have a barn, just sheds with no ability to confine the horses. But I couldn’t have my horses over there for a month at a time. On the other days, we would go out in the pasture and halter the most reactive one and try to hang onto his lead rope so he wouldn’t get them all running heedlessly.
What made me the maddest, though, is that all three horses had been fine with the local World War III the first year we had them. The second year, a new neighbor moved in and shot stuff right into my pasture (in high wind and a long term drought, no less). DH went over and told him he was terrifying the horses, and he didn’t care. My neighbor whose barn I used after that found fireworks embedded in his barn roof and siding.
Fireworks that make a noise or leave the ground have been illegal in Colorado for as long as I’ve lived here. But that doesn’t stop anyone, because there is zero enforcement. And th3e worst offenders in the nearby subdivision were all police officers, according to my boss who lived on that street.
I’m in an entirely different part of Colorado, and here all fireworks are illegal, even sparklers. A new law was passed this year: it used to be the police had to catch you in the act of lighting a firework in order to cite you. Now you just have to be there when fireworks are being set off.
That there isn’t vigorous enforcement baffles me since Colorado burns every summer.
With all that said, I heard fireworks close by last night. I’m just glad I don’t have any critters to worry about anymore, as much as I miss having them.
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No they don’t! I grab packages from my box weekly that UPS and Amazon leave there. If they were getting a fine I don’t think they would do it.
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Your mail carrier may not be turning it in or whatever is required, but if they get caught they absolutely do get fined…
With all that’s going on in this world I am glad I have a reasonable mail carrier!
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