Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by bobbydroptables on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:17PM
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What? If you are evicted the next tenant absolutely can and will open the mailbox. That's how mailboxes work. If you reported that you'd be laughed out of the post office.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by mikestew on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:04PM
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Mailboxes in the U. S. are in essence Federal property. By that logic, no one outside the Feds can open it. But I’m being pedantic.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by bobbydroptables on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:41PM
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This is just incorrect. Whoever occupies the address attached to the mailbox can access it.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by colejohnson66 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:04PM
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I mistyped. I meant, no one who isn’t living there can’t open that mailbox. And it’s a federal crime also to open mail not addressed to you.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by bobbydroptables on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:42AM
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Exactly. It's enormously insecure unless you can somehow control the next tenant or you actually think the least-enforced crime on the planet is going to stop people from invading your privacy.
If you are worried about Google kicking you off of the platform you should be terrified about what your landlord can to.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by colejohnson66 on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:43AM
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No, because I can sue my landlord if they don’t evict me properly. I can’t sue google for banning me.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by bobbydroptables on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:57AM
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Most evictions are proper. Most tenants don't fight back, regardless. To be clear my complaints about mail are not about protecting well off yuppies who are going to be suing their landlords for improper eviction.
Many people are housing insecure, disabled, homeless, etc. You're basically removing all of these people from the system.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by mikestew on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:17PM
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No one is legally allowed to open a mailbox that isn’t theirs.
The mailbox isn’t yours.
Re:Bill to crack down on robocalls passes Senate
by bobbydroptables on Friday December 20, 2019 @02:04AM
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The issue isn't who owns the mailbox. It's whose mail is in it. You are absolutely allowed to open a mailbox with someone else's mail (even if it's extremely sensitive). It just needs to be your mailbox.
What? How? No one is legally allowed to open a mailbox that isn’t theirs. If someone is opening your mailbox that isn’t a postman, report it; it’s a federal crime.