Mischief at the mailboxes
 

I realize that we are all here to enjoy ourselves and some perhaps to relive our youth. But seriously, it's pretty immature; sadly immature; to mess with a "neighbor's" mailbox!

We put a sticker for a family owned restaurant we enjoy in NC on our mailbox to help us locate it quickly.

Some idiot tore it off! All the others around ours have stickers, they all seem to be intact. Our was not off color, political or in any way offensive. So what's the deal? Just some jerk showing his true colors?

I'm sure the intent was to pi$$ someone off. And they were successful. It's just so juvenile that I certainly didn't see that coming in America's Friendliest Hometown.

What happened to respecting the rights of others??

:agree: Sorry for you grief. Some people just can't leave stuff alone even if it is no business to them.

It's not the first Time, sadly not the last

Wasn't this happening to someone else recently, like beginning of the summer?

Some people are just idiots.

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I wish they'd get mad enough to pick up cigarette butts!

I would never remove anyone's sticker but I have to admit I think they junk up our mail stations. No one should remove your sticker but it's really not that hard to find your mail box. Sorry someone took your sticker. I guess they think they are the mail box police.

Pity these folks are the "poop" police!

Not really something to get excited about. Memorize your mailbox number

oh no!! maybe it was a lawyer or ex-postal employee going postal !!

It is against the law to" willfully deface", damage or destroy a mailbox. Doing so could incur a fine and/or a 3-year prison sentence

Read more : Home Mailbox Laws | eHow

Included in these standards are the fact that mailboxes are not permitted to carry " any type of advertising" whatsoever nor any artwork that could be deemed offensive

Read more : Home Mailbox Laws | eHow

I Love all the references to America's friendliest hometown!!
I fall out of my chair EVERY TIME !!!

Actually it's Floridas friendliest home town. Who knows? Maybe it is. I haven't lived in them all.

Which is why you should always put the sticker on the mailbox right above yours. :laugh:

We have lived in Polo Ridge for only 5 months and had our various stickers removed every time. Neighboring boxes have also had their stickers removed. The only ones that this guy/gal doesn't remove are US Flags.
It has really bothered me. I have no idea why anyone would be doing this, or even care.

Not being judgmental,just curious. Your box has a number; why do you need a sticker?

If you go to the US post office and have a box there, would you put a sticker on it? Have you ever seen stickers on boxes at a US Post Office?

Our mailstop was stripped of stickers and writing after it started to look like graffiti and included writing with magic markers. Most folks have not objected to the clean look and have found it not too difficult to remember 4 numbers or 2nd row 5th box from the end, etc. Been told we don't own the box so it is not appropriate to deface someone else's property.

What if someone decides it isn't necessary to paint your driveway or add personality to your name on your lamp post? Just because you don't care to have a sticker on your mailbox doesn't or shouldn't mean someone else can't.

I agree with Joyce.
I'm not sure why anyone would find stickers on mailboxes offensive.
The postal workers are fine with it.
It only takes a few seconds each day to pick up mail.
Live and let live.

I don't have a dog in this race, but this is a bit of an apples and oranges comparison. You own your driveway and your lamp post. You don't own the mailbox.

Age does not always come with maturity as a sure thing. There is no cure for stupid.

Dotti go to the $ store and buy a lot of bright colored stickers. Every time someone removes your sticker replace it with another one.

Better yet spray paint a small pink dot on your box that can't be peeled off. I'd like to see that on video, surprise, it doesn't come off that easy.

It could be it was removed by a postal employee because it would be considered an advertisement for a restaurant rather than just a sticker and advertising on government property is very much against the law. Other possibilities: someone was going to be driving through that area and wanted to remember the name of the restaurant or was from there and wanted the memory or it was cute and a child removed it. I would bet on the postal employee, though.

I agree, too many mailbox police! Is there not enough to do in TV, that you have to worry about a sticker?

I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time but I suspect it's a postal worker or sub for the regular worker. We had this arise up in Michigan when our local football team was in the state playoffs. Dudley Do-Right lives on!

Dotti
 

As Redwitch and Indydealmaker pointed out, it was probably removed because it was advertising.

Just find a butterfly sticker and you're back in the game.

That's handled.

Next? ;)

Actually, Postal Workers don't see your sticker. They are on the other side of box. Wish people would leave well alone. (not harming anyone, or anything) Instead, lets greet our neighbors when we are at the mailboxes. Let's act like a "smiley sticker"

I doubt if the postal worker gives a rats behind about stickers. Let's put our pictures on the mailboxes!

I have put a "Pro Life" sticker on my mailbox -- it is sometimes removed - but not to worry -- I have hundreds of them

Doesn't this happen more when the grandchildren are visiting during the holidays and summer?
There are sticker collection books so they "find one " they don't have yet.
Grandparents should step up,if this is the case....opportunity to teach ...respect other people's property...attitude..."oh,it's just a sticker"

ha ha....it IS just a sticker....

I'm just thankful I still have the where with all to find my mailbox without the need for identifying markings. Mine is easy to find though...it's about the only one without a sticker :shocked:

Just for the record...the mailboxes are not your private property

Why is it so difficult to follow a rule or law? How many visits to pick up your mail does it take before you know which mailbox is yours?

Possibly because some mailboxes are located on the bottom couple of rows, and can be difficult to identify by number. :popcorn:

Well prepared! What a hoot.

I visit numerous postal stations to collect mail for clients. I'm sorry, but I find the postal stations with stickers all over them, look trashy, like graffiti.
There are a few postal stations I visit that have no stickers whatsoever. I don't see anyone at those stations trying their key in several boxes before they find their own. I would never remove someone's stickers, but as I said, in my opinion, its defacing a piece of property that is not your own.
Just my opinion, but then again, I'm a neat-nick.
With all that said, I agree with Gracie, your sticker was most likely seen as an advertisement, and that is why it was removed. If one advertisement goes on a mailbox, then who's to say everyone who has a small business wouldn't start advertising at the postal stations. As someone said, try a butterfly.

I do wish I had a stack of the stickers so I could simply replace it again and again.
I don't think it was deemed "advertising" it is for a BBQ place in NC called 12 Bones. The sticker is simply a large number 12 with the word "bones" under that.

We have close family ties there. Seeing the "12 Bones" sticker just made us smile. Simple as that.

Just surprised at the juvenile behavior by a "friendly neighbor". I guess it's amazing what people will do when no one is watching!! (it wasn't a postal worker, I asked before we put the sticker up. And it wasn't a kid. The mailbox is above my head!)

Hmmm, President Obama did eat there once. Does that make it a target for a political zealot? Who knows??

Dotti - people just cannot mind their own business and TV has a lot of people with time on their hands!

Methinks you have hit upon the reason, dotti. I googled it, and they were visited twice by the you-know-who and his wife. Probably some neighbor from down that Asheville area.

I'm sure the wide variety of new stickers, old stickers, partially torn stickers, faded stickers, dirty left-over adhesive residue from stickers removed, etc, etc, make the mail boxes really, really attractive.
I see little difference between this and cigarette butts & other litter on the ground, yet I'm surprised at how many folks that seem to think defacing property that isn't theirs with silly stickers is just 100% ok. Others do it, so why can't I? Following that line of reasoning let's all just trash the grounds, too.

Can't wait to move there so I can help beautify TV by peeling a few stickers.:boom:

I'll probably pick up some trash & butts, too.:o