Is posting a flyer on a mailbox against the law?

Answer 1

Yes it is. I am a postal employee, and I know that any thing put in or attached to the outside of the mailbox including the post is subject to postage. The carriers are to collect a sample of such flyers and estimate the number of flyers that were distributed and turn them in to the postmaster. A letter should be send out to the person creating the flyers asking for the postage. If that fails then it is turned over to the Postal Inspection Service. In one of my old jobs with the Postal Service that is exactly what I did. Usually the carriers do not care to take the effort to collect the flyers or cards that are attached, come up with an estimate of how many were distributed. Usually the Postal Inspection Service has biger things to worry about. Howeverwith the Postal Service being so tight for money recently I wouldn't put it past them to require the carriers to collect the a sample of the flyers and get an estimate so postage may be collected.

The USPS Domestic Mail Manual states that, except for the occasional newspaper, "no part of a mail receptacle may be used to deliver any matter not bearing postage, including items or matter placed upon, supported by, attached to, hung from, or inserted into a mail receptacle."

Answer 2

Stand-alone mail drop boxes are owned by the US Postal Service, part of the Federal Government. It is illegal to deface any property owned by post office. Post Offices can also dictate the placement, size, shape, and height of personal mailboxes whether on homes or on rural routes (stand alone boxes along the roadway). Customarily, it has been historically illegal to use even a personal mailbox for anything except sending and receiving mail.

Answer 3

No ... it's illegal ... punishable by federal law!! You can hang it on the outside or on the post, but not inside the mailbox.

No. The post office is the only one who has access to your mailbox.

Answer 4

yes, it is, i have been wondering if it was illegal to put flyers on mailboxes, but i know that it is illegal to put them in mailboxes.

Just to add to this:

3.1.3 Use for Mail Except under 3.2.11, Newspaper Receptacle, the receptacles described in 3.1.1 may be used only for matter bearing postage. Other than as permitted by 3.2.10, Delivery of Unstamped Newspapers, or 3.2.11, no part of a mail receptacle may be used to deliver any matter not bearing postage, including items or matter placed upon, supported by, attached to, hung from, or inserted into a mail receptacle. Any mailable matter not bearing postage and found as described above is subject to the same postage as would be paid if it were carried by mail

Answer 5

Yes. The USPS Domestic Mail Manual states that, except for the occasional newspaper, "no part of a mail receptacle may be used to deliver any matter not bearing postage, including items or matter placed upon, supported by, attached to, hung from, or inserted into a mail receptacle."

Answer 6

No, you cannot be sent to jail. However, it is illegal under Title 18, section 1725 of the United States code states that a person who knowingly puts "mailable matter" without postage in to an established letter box shall be liable for a fine.

Answer 7

Yes it is. Source www.gao.gov/archive/1997/gg97085

Answer 8

Yes, the mail box is only for paid postage delivery.

Answer 9

No, it's only for mail.