Is it illegal to open someone else's mailbox and put business cards in them?
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Nothing may be put in a mail box except mail delivered by the U.S. postal service.
Ye, the mailbox that you buy at the hardware store becomes Government property as soon as you mount it as a mailbox.
No.it's only illegal to steal someone's mail.
"Stealing mail is against the law, not tampering with it" (Look Who's Talking)
yes it is, i reported a pizza delivery comany for putting their flyers in my mail box, you cant touch a mailbox or touch mail in them
It would be illegal to open someone else's mailbox but you can slide the card through the cracks. That is okay.
Yes, very definitely! The mail box is the property of the USPS, not the individual.
United States Postal Service
Domestic Mail Manual
1.0 Basic Standards
1.1Authorized Depository
Except as excluded by 1.2, every letterbox or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any city delivery route, rural delivery route, highway contract route, or other mail route is designated an authorized depository for mail within the meaning of 18 USC 1702, 1705, 1708, and 1725.
1.2Exclusions
Door slots and nonlockable bins or troughs used with apartment house mailboxes are not letterboxes within the meaning of 18 USC 1725 and are not private mail receptacles for the standards for mailable matter not bearing postage found in or on private mail receptacles. The post or other support is not part of the receptacle.
1.3Use for Mail
Except under 2.11, the receptacles described in 1.1 may be used only for matter bearing postage. Other than as permitted by 2.10 or 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.
YES!
no it is not..the post office does not own the mail box so there is nothing to say that only mail can be put in them
Read the laws people
Yes, the Mail box belong to the Government and any tampering (ie open and adding) is a federal crime. You could also be guilty of falsely acting as a grovenment agent ( post man) not that you have much of a fine unless you continue after a warning.
Dano
Mail boxes are for stamped or metered mail.
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