Reflective stickers on mailboxes. Discuss!

[pacelli]

After Jack McLamb's statement about the reflective stickers on mailboxes, and the discussion in one of the threads about the March on Washington, it seems there are many people interested in discussing the notion that reflective, color-coded stickers are being placed on mailboxes as an indication of *something* that is unknown.

Please feel free to vote in the poll - it is NOT a public poll, your name will not be displayed next to your choice. Please visually check your mailbox before voting so we can have an honest sample. Stage 2 of the poll will be to solicit pictures of these stickers. Voting Yes or No in the poll is not voting for or against McLamb's theory about the nature of the stickers.


I dug up the following links, I'm sure there are more:

http://www.rinf.com/news/sep-2005/49.html

http://dprogram.wordpress.com/2008/0...r-termination/

So, go ahead and have at it. Also, feel free to discuss TACMARS too!

Please be sure to keep discussions rational and respectful (either for or against) and avoid posting off-topic (including but not limited to; castigating those participating in the discussion, pictures that do not display people or items directly related to the topic, or proposal of theories related to the topic that do not have at least two provided and verifiable sources).

All off-topic posts will be reported to admin for removal.

[sidster]

From my other post....


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Direction markers??



OK.. i'm getting really curious about these markers. Can someone
post a pic of their marked mailbox?

[alaric]

From my other post....


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Direction markers??



OK.. i'm getting really curious about these markers. Can someone
post a pic of their marked mailbox?

these pictures are of tacamars. On the back of signs on the road, ostensively for foreign troops to read, since they ride on the opposite side of the road. I have never heard of the mailbox thingy though.

[pacelli]

these pictures are of tacamars. On the back of signs on the road, ostensively for foreign troops to read, since they ride on the opposite side of the road. I have never heard of the mailbox thingy though.

Does anyone have any of their own pictures that they've taken of tacamars? We have a skeptical bunch of people on these forums, so generally nothing is believed unless it is a first hand experience

[sidster]

The obvious thing would be for us to just remove these markings
where ever we see them. If they are in fact not fire hydrant or
some other safety markings, they shouldn't really be there... right?

[pacelli]

The obvious thing would be for us to just remove these markings
where ever we see them. If they are in fact not fire hydrant or
some other safety markings, they shouldn't really be there... right?

We had a volunteer fire fighter in the other thread post on this topic and say they were used for fundraising purposes. And a mail carrier in the other thread responded saying that he/she didn't know anything about them.

So I'd think that if there was something on your property that you didn't place there, it would be within your right to remove it if you didn't want it. Furthermore I'd also think that you'd be able to call the police and report vandalism each time it reappeared.

[electronicmaji]

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Really $#@!ing solid evidence there....really solid...

[pacelli]

Really $#@!ing solid evidence there....really solid...

Really? What's solid about it?

[RSLudlum]

So I'd think that if there was something on your property that you didn't place there, it would be within your right to remove it if you didn't want it. Furthermore I'd also think that you'd be able to call the police and report vandalism each time it reappeared.

Isn't the mailbox considered federal property even if you buy it and install it yourself?

[pacelli]

Isn't the mailbox considered federal property even if you buy it and install it yourself?

Yes they are, and mailbox vandalism is a federal offense! Someone puts a sticker on federal property, with no notice, isn't that vandalism? If it isn't vandalism and is part of a federal property marking program, don't the people have a right to know what is happening?

Rural area mailboxes are vulnerable to vandalism because they are usually isolated, located on public thoroughfares, and frequently not visible to the box owners from their homes. City residential mailboxes are vandalized to a lesser degree.

Mailboxes are considered federal property, and federal law (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1705), makes it a crime to vandalize them (or to injure, deface or destroy any mail deposited in them). Violators can be fined up to $250,000, or imprisoned for up to three years, for each act of vandalism.

Postal Inspectors recommend these actions to protect your mailbox and any mail that may be inside it:

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Immediately report theft, tampering or destruction of mail or mailboxes to your postmaster. You’ll be asked to complete PS Form 1510, Mail Loss and Rifling Report, or PS Form 2016, Mail Theft and Vandalism Complaint. The forms help the Postal Inspection Service determine whether your problem is isolated, or one frequently experienced in your neighborhood.
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Obtain Label 33 from the Postal Inspection Service and affix it to your mailbox. The sticker warns that willful damage to mailboxes and theft of mail are crimes.

http://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/radDocs/tipvandl.htm

[Dr.3D]

Isn't the mailbox considered federal property even if you buy it and install it yourself?

Yep, but they have told me I can decorate it any way I want to. They also said it may make it weigh too much, but that isn't a problem if it will stay upright and is easily opened and closed.

They just don't want you to decorate it in such a way as to make it dangerous should a vehicle run into it. (like covering it with bricks or some other heavy material)

[sidster]

Yep, but they have told me I can decorate it any way I want to. They also said it may make it weigh too much, but that isn't a problem if it will stay upright and is easily opened and closed.

They just don't want you to decorate it in such a way as to make it dangerous should a vehicle run into it. (like covering it with bricks or some other heavy material)

What about gluing shredded glass all over it?

[Dr.3D]

What about gluing shredded glass all over it?

LOL, I've seen that done on the tops of walls between yards down in Mexico.

They set it right into the cement caps on the walls. I guess it really keeps people from climbing over those walls.

[Mckarnin]

How about gluing hundreds of reflective stickers in every color to it.

What about gluing shredded glass all over it?

[TruthisTreason]

Clean as a whistle.

[Paul Revered]

O.K. I checked my mailbox. I have a red sticker, nickel sized, reflective, plastic, and bound with a strong adhesive; and I lived to tell about it! I suspect that it was placed there before I moved in. I roamed around the neighborhood, and saw various other colors. I only saw 1 other red sticker out of a sample of say 10-20 boxes that had stickers. What I did notice however, is that most of the stickers were placed on newspaper boxes. Most of the homes that had no newspaper boxes, also had no stickers. I'm ready to call this one debunked. If you still have doubts, I would talk to your paper delivery person , and ask about these stickers.

P.S. I did not vote in the poll. I had trouble believing this story from the beginning. It's not a good way to identify people. People move. I heard that the stickers were coded as red, blue, and pink. This is a bad system. As my sticker is very old, it is faded, and I had a hard time telling whether is was red or pink. When I was sure that it was red, I was temporarily concerned. Now that I've done some superficial investigating; I simply don't believe it at all.

[brandon]

O.K. I checked my mailbox. I have a red sticker, nickel sized, reflective, plastic, and bound with a strong adhesive; and I lived to tell about it! I suspect that it was placed there before I moved in. I roamed around the neighborhood, and saw various other colors. I only saw 1 other red sticker out of a sample of say 10-20 boxes that had stickers. What I did notice however, is that most of the stickers were placed on newspaper boxes. Most of the homes that had no newspaper boxes, also had no stickers. I'm ready to call this one debunked. If you still have doubts, I would talk to your paper delivery person , and ask about these stickers.

I don't think a newspaper company would put put stickers on mailboxes. It's against the law for them to do that.

[pacelli]

O.K. I checked my mailbox. I have a red sticker, nickel sized, reflective, plastic, and bound with a strong adhesive; and I lived to tell about it! I suspect that it was placed there before I moved in. I roamed around the neighborhood, and saw various other colors. I only saw 1 other red sticker out of a sample of say 10-20 boxes that had stickers. What I did notice however, is that most of the stickers were placed on newspaper boxes. Most of the homes that had no newspaper boxes, also had no stickers. I'm ready to call this one debunked. If you still have doubts, I would talk to your paper delivery person , and ask about these stickers.

Ok. Thank you very much for posting your findings and observations. Is there any chance we could get a picture of one or some of the stickers in question, without house numbers or other identifying information? Also, what were the other sticker colors present aside from red?

Thanks in advance.

[Paul Revered]

Ok. Thank you very much for posting your findings and observations. Is there any chance we could get a picture of one or some of the stickers in question, without house numbers or other identifying information? Also, what were the other sticker colors present aside from red?

Thanks in advance.

I don't know how to get pictures on the web. I saw some yellow stickers. As the sun was beginning to set, I had trouble telling if there were silver, or white stickers; but which ever color they were, there were lots of them. I also saw one very green sticker. I didn't see any blue stickers. My sticker has a pronounced lip around the edge. I put up reflectors on my mailbox a few years ago, and it was partially sticking out from behind the reflector. I temporarily removed the reflector, then removed the sticker to have a close look in good light. It is made of a soft translucent plastic, and has a foil backing. The foil is what makes it reflective.

[Dr.3D]

O.K. I checked my mailbox. I have a red sticker, nickel sized, reflective, plastic, and bound with a strong adhesive; and I lived to tell about it! I suspect that it was placed there before I moved in. I roamed around the neighborhood, and saw various other colors. I only saw 1 other red sticker out of a sample of say 10-20 boxes that had stickers. What I did notice however, is that most of the stickers were placed on newspaper boxes. Most of the homes that had no newspaper boxes, also had no stickers. I'm ready to call this one debunked. If you still have doubts, I would talk to your paper delivery person , and ask about these stickers.

P.S. I did not vote in the poll. I had trouble believing this story from the beginning. It's not a good way to identify people. People move. I heard that the stickers were coded as red, blue, and pink. This is a bad system. As my sticker is very old, it is faded, and I had a hard time telling whether is was red or pink. When I was sure that it was red, I was temporarily concerned. Now that I've done some superficial investigating; I simply don't believe it at all.

Voting doesn't mean you believe there is a conspiracy. It just means you have a sticker on your mailbox.

I don't believe there is any kind of conspiracy, I did vote yes because I have a sticker on my mailbox.

As for colors around the area, I saw one mailbox with three blue stickers. I saw a few red ones and a few pink ones. I'm color blind on reds and greens so I can't be sure if a sticker is pink or green. The red ones I can make out but they may be orange as I can't really tell the difference between red and orange. I also noticed a lot of the paper boxes had stickers. It could be the newspaper delivery people only put them on a mailbox when it is in front of the paper boxes and they couldn't see the sticker if it was on the paper boxes as they came down the road.

I also noticed on the busy roads, they were on the side of the box showing in the direction of the lane I was in and that lane was on the opposite side of the road. Do newspaper delivery people cross the road to deliver the paper and then go back across into the correct lane for driving?

At this point in time, I kinda think they are used to tell the newspaper delivery people messages.

[Paul Revered]

Voting doesn't mean you believe there is a conspiracy. It just means you have a sticker on your mailbox.

I don't believe there is any kind of conspiracy, I did vote yes because I have a sticker on my mailbox.

As for colors around the area, I saw one mailbox with three blue stickers. I saw a few red ones and a few pink ones. I'm color blind on reds and greens so I can't be sure if a sticker is pink or green. The red ones I can make out but they may be orange as I can't really tell the difference between red and orange. I also noticed a lot of the paper boxes had stickers. It could be the newspaper delivery people only put them on a mailbox when it is in front of the paper boxes and they couldn't see the sticker if it was on the paper boxes as they came down the road.

I also noticed on the busy roads, they were on the side of the box showing in the direction of the lane I was in and that lane was on the opposite side of the road. Do newspaper delivery people cross the road to deliver the paper and then go back across into the correct lane for driving?

At this point in time, I kinda think they are used to tell the newspaper delivery people messages.

O.K. I'll vote. I used to deliver papers. In the morning, you delver them anyway you can. There usually isn't anyone else out there. In the evening it's another story. In both of the routes that I had I worked from a book which was soon committed to memory. The one route I did as a minor. I had about 200 customers. As a young man I worked a commercial route. I was considering becoming a partner with the owner. If I recall correctly that rout had about 2000 customers. We worked out of books, but come to think of it I had suggested a color coded sticker system. It can be difficult to remember who gets which paper, and who gets all of them. Trying to read your book, band and/or bag papers, drive, and chuck papers out of both sides of the van without wrecking on icy roads in the dark on limited sleep, can be quite a challenge.
Ahhh, the good old days.

[Paul Revered]

I sat 3 feet behind Mr. McLamb on the lawn yesterday. I was honored to be in his presence. I wish that I had been armed with this information at that time. If anyone here is his friend, please have a talk with him.

[Paul Revered]

O.K. I found Mr. McLamb's MySpace account. I wrote him a short letter encouraging him to view this thread. Hopefully we can let this issue drop; and encourage others that speak of it to do the same.

[Mckarnin]

The unfortunate truth is that many people prefer the short-term gains they get from scaring people with non-actionable information over the long-term gains that come with true education.

O.K. I found Mr. McLamb's MySpace account. I wrote him a short letter encouraging him to view this thread. Hopefully we can let this issue drop; and encourage others that speak of it to do the same.

[TheSkeptic]

The unfortunate truth is that many people prefer the short-term gains they get from scaring people with non-actionable information over the long-term gains that come with true education.

That is a very eloquent summation of a very good point.

[Anti Federalist]

I've searched around and was not able to even find any pictures of these stickers.

I call BS until I see or read more.

[Bruno]

I don't see any pictures of stickers on mailboxes from the article, so that is quite a claim without even a picture or two of these mysterious stickers of death.

Regarding the signs from Sidster -I heard this conspiracy theory about 15 years ago. But at the time the rumor was the stickers were on the backs of road signs on the opposite side of the interstate as the correct lane of travel. It was to be used for the Chinese military to guide them easily throughout our highways system once they got into our borders. I even paid attention to the backs of signs for a while. The only stickers i ever saw were simply from the company that made the signs. Who knows what the above stickers would be in daylight. Probably harmless and normal.

[Truth Warrior]

Who really OWNS your mailbox? ( Trick question )

[Bruno]

Who really OWNS your mailbox? ( Trick question )

Mmmm. I could see some legal issues and gray areas here. I'll try to cover all the bases with my total guess:
You own it when you buy it, the government owns it once you place it on your property for the purpose of collecting mail, but you would own it again if you removed it.
I know it is a federal offense to tamper with a mailbox, so that's what I'm going on.

Do you know the answer, or are you wondering yourself?

[Truth Warrior]

Mmmm. I could see some legal issues and gray areas here. I'll try to cover all the bases with my total guess:
You own it when you buy it, the government owns it once you place it on your property for the purpose of collecting mail, but you would own it again if you removed it.
I know it is a federal offense to tamper with a mailbox, so that's what I'm going on.

Do you know the answer, or are you wondering yourself?

My understanding is, you got it. Congrats!