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Re:B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for ... by SoftTalker on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:51PM (#37069448)
In the USA it's illegal for anyone other than the Postal Service to place anything in your mailbox. Technically, they own your mailbox, even though you have to provide it at your expense.

That's why they are dumping the advertising on his driveway, and why newspapers often provided a separate box for your newspaper that you mount below or beside your mailbox. I used past tense because we have no local newspaper anymore.

If they put this crap in your mailbox, they'd be committing a federal crime and postal inspectors would probably track them down if they got enough complaints.

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Re:B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for ... by blibble on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:29PM (#37070272)
> In the USA it's illegal for anyone other than the Postal Service to place anything in your mailbox.

how does this work with outgoing mail?

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Re:B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for ... by snypher on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @08:58PM (#37070485)
The law reads something like

>statute that prohibited the deposit of unstamped “mailable matter” in a mailbox

I assume the outgoing mail, if stamped, is ok. Edit; UPS may even be able to use it if the item has postage paid, but in that case they would just have USPS deliver it.

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Re:B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for ... by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @09:03PM (#37070520)
> how does this work with outgoing mail?

A more complete (but still not fully so) statement is that it is generally illegal for anyone but you and the postal service to put anything into your mailbox, and it is also generally illegal for anyone but you and the postal service to take anything out.

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Re:B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for ... by mcv on Friday August 11, 2023 @06:21AM (#37087034)
Sounds like the postal service picks up your mail from your own mailbox? That's completely different from the situation in NL. Here, we post our outgoing mail in big red mailboxes that exist solely for that purpose, but anyone can put stuff in your mailbox, which is usually in your door, so mail arrives on your doormat.
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