The Jenny Rae

19 Jan 2011

brittany-lynne: shaina-: darkatlanticsky: thepoetsmuse: riandawsonontoast: prisonerofmarzipan: 0disrespectyoursurroundings0: jackalope-: -everycliche: b33fy: runfaggotrun-: I think I should try this, lol it’s true. my English teacher taught us this. :D  this is genius does this work omgasdgjk so doing this OH MY GOD. GENIUSSS! omg  shwwaaaat. i should do this. Would anyone be willing to let me try this whenever I get around to mailing those letters out?  Wow, yes!  sooo doing this You think the USPS doesn’t know about this age-old scam? I could have just stuck it in my own mailbox with his return address and no stamp and let the post office “return” it to him.The Post Office is well aware of this scam, and takes measures to deal with it. Most of which they won’t talk about. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-438927.html It does work. You can mail letters for free this way. However… I belive that sometime in the last 10 years, the Post Office caught on to this little scam. They now do the checking for valid mailing address at a local level, or otherwise understand the district the letter came from. The result is that you can use this trick to mail around with your local zip code area, but anywhere else they just throw it out. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-52202.html They’re not stupid.  They know people do this.  Mixed answers though on to what degree you will get in trouble for it.  Some other comments implied that they only bother doing anything about it if it’s a regular occurence.

brittany-lynne:

shaina-:

darkatlanticsky:

thepoetsmuse:

riandawsonontoast:

prisonerofmarzipan:

0disrespectyoursurroundings0:

jackalope-:

-everycliche:

b33fy:

runfaggotrun-:

I think I should try this, lol

it’s true. my English teacher taught us this. :D

 this is genius

does this work omgasdgjk

so doing this

OH MY GOD. GENIUSSS!

omg 

shwwaaaat. i should do this.

Would anyone be willing to let me try this whenever I get around to mailing those letters out?

 Wow, yes!

 sooo doing this

You think the USPS doesn’t know about this age-old scam?

I could have just stuck it in my own mailbox with his return address and no stamp and let the post office “return” it to him.The Post Office is well aware of this scam, and takes measures to deal with it. Most of which they won’t talk about.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-438927.html

It does work. You can mail letters for free this way.

However… I belive that sometime in the last 10 years, the Post Office caught on to this little scam. They now do the checking for valid mailing address at a local level, or otherwise understand the district the letter came from. The result is that you can use this trick to mail around with your local zip code area, but anywhere else they just throw it out.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-52202.html

They’re not stupid.  They know people do this.  Mixed answers though on to what degree you will get in trouble for it.  Some other comments implied that they only bother doing anything about it if it’s a regular occurence.

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    That’s pretty brilliant.. but I feel that of all the companies I’d like to rip off, the US Postal Service is not one of...
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    ————- I really doubt it’s that easy… the person who you’re sending it to has to know that you’re doing that, otherwise...
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    I’ve considered doing this but I’m always afraid that the local office will know cos the local address is the ‘send to’...
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    I have to try this one day…
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    Seriously? Oh, it’s only mail fraud, which happens to be a federal offense. No big deal…
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    Totally doing it
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    I really want to try this