Reflective stickers on mailboxes. Discuss!

[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.