Reflective stickers on mailboxes. Discuss!

[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

[LibertyEagle]

i took a walk earlier, and looked at probably 100 mailboxes... i didn't see a sticker on any of them...

i wonder how many people thought i was the neighborhood weirdo when they looked out and saw me bent over looking underneath their mailbox (i looked on all sides briefly

lololol

[IPSecure]

Went searching for reflector pics, there is one on top...

[Bruno]

Now that is a cool mailbox!

No sticker on ours.

I drive all around central Iowa for work. I'll keep an eye out for stickers (and tacmars). My hunch is its all a bunch of hooey.

[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!

[Mesogen]

So the impression I'm getting is that the end result of the march/rally is that now people are looking around for stickers on their mailboxes like paranoid nutcakes. Way to go.

[Kludge]

// Jooz did it.

[mport1]

Its just another nutty conspiracy...

[RockEnds]

So the impression I'm getting is that the end result of the march/rally is that now people are looking around for stickers on their mailboxes like paranoid nutcakes. Way to go.

Ever been snipe huntin'?

[constituent]

i love that three people voted yes.

[pacelli]

i love that three people voted yes.

So do I ! I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures.

[Dr.3D]

So the impression I'm getting is that the end result of the march/rally is that now people are looking around for stickers on their mailboxes like paranoid nutcakes. Way to go.

Don't you like a good mystery?

I'm not saying there is any kind of conspiracy, but it is interesting to note there are some of those stickers on peoples mail boxes.

Now the next question is, what are they there for?

I can go down the road here and probably get pictures of a dozen of them if that is what it takes to make people understand there are mailboxes with those nickel sized reflective stickers on them. The mystery is, why are those stickers there?

[pacelli]

I think actual personal pictures will be the only thing that will reliably continue this discussion. The attacks have already begun. I started the thread not as an attack or as a pre-judgment, but as an honest inquiry to evaluating the claims, whether true or false.

[sidster]

Don't you like a good mystery?

I'm not saying there is any kind of conspiracy, but it is interesting to note there are some of those stickers on peoples mail boxes.

Now the next question is, what are they there for?

I can go down the road here and probably get pictures of a dozen of them if that is what it takes to make people understand there are mailboxes with those nickel sized reflective stickers on them. The mystery is, why are those stickers there?

+1

I took a walk around my neighborhood, maybe a block or so,
then returned back cause it was just too hot to be out. I didn't
see any mailboxes with these stickers, albeit, there are more
apartment complexes and townhouses than houses in my area.

I'll take a look around work tomorrow. More individual houses
in that area.

Dr.3D, if your neighbors have these stickers, I'd like to see pics
and also can you talk to a few of them to see if they know what
those stickers are for?

[sidster]

I think actual personal pictures will be the only thing that will reliably continue this discussion. The attacks have already begun. I started the thread not as an attack or as a pre-judgment, but as an honest inquiry to evaluating the claims, whether true or false.

+1

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Don't you like a good mystery?

I'm not saying there is any kind of conspiracy, but it is interesting to note there are some of those stickers on peoples mail boxes.

Now the next question is, what are they there for?

I can go down the road here and probably get pictures of a dozen of them if that is what it takes to make people understand there are mailboxes with those nickel sized reflective stickers on them. The mystery is, why are those stickers there?

Please go and get those pictures, please. In the meantime, I'm going to step out on my porch to check to see if my mailbox has one. Thank you.

[revolutionman]

if you have a mail slot in your door, and no mail receptacle outside of your home does that make your home federal property???

[constituent]

if you have a mail slot in your door, and no mail receptacle outside of your home does that make your home federal property???

just the foyer i believe

[pacelli]

if you have a mail slot in your door, and no mail receptacle outside of your home does that make your home federal property???

No clue, do any of our US postal service employees care to comment?

[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.

[Dr.3D]

Please go and get those pictures, please. In the meantime, I'm going to step out on my porch to check to see if my mailbox has one. Thank you.

I'll have to wait till tomorrow as it is getting dark now. I was working on my plumbing most of the day and have not had a chance to do much else.

I'm still only halfway done with the plumbing job too. Had to replace the valve set on my claw foot tub with new reproduction fittings. The pipe sizes are hard to find in brass, especially on the first day of the week. Right now, I don't have a shower and it really makes me upset to have to take a bath rather than a shower. I don't even know if I'll get a chance to get to the pictures tomorrow either as I want to finish the plumbing job first. We shall see.

Perhaps Paul Revered can get some pictures before I can?

[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.

[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]

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.

[sidster]

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.

Cool. we have a live "specimen"

Take a few good pictures of it, then use flickr.com to upload
the images to, after which you can post the links to those pics
here.

[pacelli]

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.

Thanks very much for going into detail on it. The theory indicates that there are red, blue, and yellow stickers used for the FEMA death camp round-up. The presence of a green, white, or silver sticker would not be covered by McLamb's theory.

[pacelli]

Cool. we have a live "specimen"

Take a few good pictures of it, then use flickr.com to upload
the images to, after which you can post the links to those pics
here.

He just said, "I don't know how to get pictures on the web." I'm comfortable with that response. He also went into a great deal of detail about the colors of the other stickers in the area, which do not fit into the FEMA death camp identification colors (i.e. red, blue, yellow).

I'd like to hear from others as we approach this week and others see this thread. I'm sure we can get some pictures from those that know how to do so.

We may see a pattern emerge which allows us to take steps to verify or disprove the theory that these stickers are used for newspaper distribution purposes. If enough people feel comfortable responding in this thread, we may also see a geographic pattern emerge.

[brandon]

I heard that they are smashing different colors of chewed bubble gum into the pavement in front of our homes to indicate that we are Ron Paul supporters.

[pacelli]

I heard that they are smashing different colors of chewed bubble gum into the pavement in front of our homes to indicate that we are Ron Paul supporters.

Please start a new thread for that theory.