Questions tagged [postal-service]
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Is it a crime to take my own package from a delivery truck before it has reached my home?
Not that I would ever do this, but I'm curious: if I were to go into a stopped delivery truck and remove from it an item that is addressed to me, would this be a crime? If so what crime would it be?
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Do the Postmaster's actionsviolate 18 U.S. Code § 595. Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments?
According to the US Code Title 18 Section 595:
Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof...uses his official ...
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Refurbishment service by post, can the vendor disclaim responsibility for return shipping?
There is a vendor offering a service to refurbish and paint brake calipers. These items can sometimes have high value, several thousand pounds on the second-hand market.
The vendor's terms and ...
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At what point do you become culpable for the content of packages addressed to you in the mail?
If someone was to address and mail a package to me that included something that was prohibited where I live either because I requested it or alternatively because they decided to for some reason ...
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How can it be legal for companies to send me random crap and then demand payment? [duplicate]
(Although I live in Sweden, I think this applies more or less globally.)
Numerous times throughout the years, the most recently today, I have received snailmail notifications from the postal office ...
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Mail for Nonexistent Person? [duplicate]
Suppose I receive a piece of mail addressed to my house with my last name, but with a first name I have never heard of. (I don’t know anyone with that name.)
It's from an organization I do have a ...
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Liabilities of countries as members of the Universal Postal Union
Bob, in country A, sends Alice, living in country B (one of the most corrupt countries in the world) a gift by air mail: some non-prohibited good stuff of a total weight 10 kg which will make Alice ...
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Can my apartment complex return packages to sender if they are not picked up?
I am living in California and I have received an email from my apartment complex manager that states that packages not picked up from the mailroom as of Friday will be marked return to sender. Is this ...
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What is the legal difference between loitering and loafing?
I have seen this sign below on a few United States Post Offices in my area of Virginia. The sign prohibits 3 acts:
NO SOLICITING
NO LOITERING
NO LOAFING
No soliciting is obvious. However, ...
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Having a registered home address in the UK without living there
My situation is the follwing. I am a student in the UK and my girlfriend is a working professional. I am eligible for a "residential assistant" position at one of the university's student halls where ...
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Legally, what agreement is entered into when posting a letter (in Germany)?
I am interested in what laws, either explicit or implicit, cover the delivery of a letter in Germany.
I would imagine that if I accurately address a letter that contains content which is permitted, I ...
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Postage for letters to the pope sent from Italy
When royal forces defeated papal forces in 1870 and overthrew the Papal States, one of the various unsuccessful attempts to mollify the pope was a law saying that no postage need be paid on letters to ...
