Reflective stickers on mailboxes. Discuss!

[revolutionman]

just the foyer i believe

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I dunno if you guys are gonna follow me down this path, but is it possible that these reflective stickers are placed there so people dont run your mailbox over??

I wonder how street lights or the absense of street lights figure into the mailbox sticker conspiracy.

Also are these stickers appearing on wall mounted mail boxes, or the boxes on the lobby of apartment buildings?? or Just on houses where the mailbox is curbside??

[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.

[pacelli]

I'd also like to add that the main site which distributed this theory, http://www.uaff.us/, has recently been converted to a pay-only site. Their article on the FEMA red/blue sticker theory was accessible for free a few weeks ago. A curious development considering that they want $3.65 for 1 year access.

[pacelli]

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I dunno if you guys are gonna follow me down this path, but is it possible that these reflective stickers are placed there so people dont run your mailbox over??

I wonder how street lights or the absense of street lights figure into the mailbox sticker conspiracy.

Also are these stickers appearing on wall mounted mail boxes, or the boxes on the lobby of apartment buildings?? or Just on houses where the mailbox is curbside??

Certainly possible. We certainly haven't presented evidence of a FEMA death camp mailbox sticker conspiracy. I'm trying to get an idea about the presence of the stickers, and the colors of the stickers. We have people in this thread revealing that they are observing stickers, however there are also colors of stickers which are not covered by the McLamb theory.

Those are great questions to ask in terms of sticker placement.

[RockEnds]

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.

I used to have a motor paper route back in the mid '80's. Every now and then, I STILL dream that I overslept and the papers are late!!!

Edit: Oh, and I took a walk this evening, and I saw no stickers on mailboxes except for a few with house numbers.

[Paul Revered]

[QUOTE=revolutionman;1560922]LoL

I dunno if you guys are gonna follow me down this path, but is it possible that these reflective stickers are placed there so people dont run your mailbox over??
/QUOTE] I would almost go along with that hypothesis, but that wouldn't necessarily support the different colors. What I did notice in my neighborhood, was that these colors were not mixed. In other words, some stickers were newer than others, but each box had only one color of stickers. Many boxes had up to 4 stickers on them, but the stickers on each box were uniform in color.

[Dr.3D]

[QUOTE=Paul Revered;1560959]

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I dunno if you guys are gonna follow me down this path, but is it possible that these reflective stickers are placed there so people dont run your mailbox over??
/QUOTE] I would almost go along with that hypothesis, but that wouldn't necessarily support the different colors. What I did notice in my neighborhood, was that these colors were not mixed. In other words, some stickers were newer than others, but each box had only one color of stickers. Many boxes had up to 4 stickers on them, but the stickers on each box were uniform in color.

Yep, that's what I saw. This makes me think perhaps there are three papers being delivered at that address. It wouldn't make sense though that all three papers would be the same. Seems like the family would only subscribe to one paper and share it. So if it was three different papers, then why would all of the stickers be the same color? This is what has me stumped.

[pacelli]

I would almost go along with that hypothesis, but that wouldn't necessarily support the different colors. What I did notice in my neighborhood, was that these colors were not mixed. In other words, some stickers were newer than others, but each box had only one color of stickers. Many boxes had up to 4 stickers on them, but the stickers on each box were uniform in color.

Hm, was there any pattern in terms of the colors on the boxes that had 4 stickers? In other words, was it only a certain color that had up to 4 stickers on them?

[Paul Revered]

I used to have a motor paper route back in the mid '80's. Every now and then, I STILL dream that I overslept and the papers are late!!!

Edit: Oh, and I took a walk this evening, and I saw no stickers on mailboxes except for a few with house numbers.

The big route that I had was half homes, and half apartments. The motor route was easy; but the apartments seriously slowed us down. We would start at around 1:00 AM picking up the Saturday morning paper. As soon as that was delivered we would start stuffing advertisements into the Sunday supplement, we would have those delivered by sometime Saturday evening. If we didn't get any complaints, we would eat, get a few hours sleep, and then we were back up shortly after midnight to pick up the Sunday paper. If I recall correctly we had to have those delivered by 8:00 AM. Most of the time we would get it done on time. Then we could sit back and wait to redeliver any complaints we got from that batch.

[Paul Revered]

Hm, was there any pattern in terms of the colors on the boxes that had 4 stickers? In other words, was it only a certain color that had up to 4 stickers on them?

That's an interesting question. If it is in fact the paper delivery person that is putting these stickers on the boxes; and I very strongly suspect that it is; he probably buys them with the rest of his supplies, from the newspaper company. I would imagine that he is free to use any system that he wishes, as from my experience, it is his route under contract.

It's very dark now, but I'll go see what I can see..