Free Postage?

[blackf0rk]

I don't know if any has mailed a letter at the post office and forgot the little stamp, but if you have you'd notice that they send the letter back to you with a big obnoxious circle and a little message saying, "POSTAGE FOOL!?"

So for sake of argument and exploiting this little feature of our USPS, let's say I'm going to send a letter to my Pen Pal Tallboy in FL. What happens if I put no postage on it, and put Tallboy's address in the return to sender area? :)

Only possible problem I forsee is if you're in a state other than where you're sending the letter, and the return post is not in the State in which you're dropping it into the box, it would look a little odd. However, people from out of state DO mail letters with their out-of-state-address, so it's not that out of the ordinary.

What does everyone else think? Any postal workers here? .... :uzi:

[FordNut]

I don't know if any has mailed a letter at the post office and forgot the little stamp, but if you have you'd notice that they send the letter back to you with a big obnoxious circle and a little message saying, "POSTAGE FOOL!?"

So for sake of argument and exploiting this little feature of our USPS, let's say I'm going to send a letter to my Pen Pal Tallboy in FL. What happens if I put no postage on it, and put Tallboy's address in the return to sender area? :)

Only possible problem I forsee is if you're in a state other than where you're sending the letter, and the return post is not in the State in which you're dropping it into the box, it would look a little odd. However, people from out of state DO mail letters with their out-of-state-address, so it's not that out of the ordinary.

What does everyone else think? Any postal workers here? .... :uzi:

I believe it could be considered fraud against a branch of the federal government, thereby being classified as a felony. Over $.37?

[Haggis]

I believe it could be considered fraud against a branch of the federal government, thereby being classified as a felony. Over $.37?
Give it a try Blackf0rk and if you get 30 to life, I know not to do it myself.

[blackf0rk]

Give it a try Blackf0rk and if you get 30 to life, I know not to do it myself.
ROFL - thanks! :P I'm not going to do it, it's just a theory. :cool4:

[dwasson]

You don't think that you are the first one that thought of this, do you?

[Bluerauder]

I don't know if any has mailed a letter at the post office and forgot the little stamp, but if you have you'd notice that they send the letter back to you with a big obnoxious circle and a little message saying, "POSTAGE FOOL!?"
I just received a postcard from Disney World with no stamp affixed. :rolleyes: It was delivered to the house with a "Postage Due" stamp and a little envelope to put the money in and leave in the mailbox. :D The "Postage Fool" message must be a local thing. :rofl:

[LordVader]

:beatnik: Yeah, send us a letter from the Big House after they send you up! That's why email is so much more economical.

[mailman]

A letter with no postage is supposed to be returned to sender postage due, which means he should have to pay to get his letter back which would knock out the above situation about the return address being where you really wanted it to go. I said SUPPOSED TO . If its local it usually just gets returned with a note or stamp stating returned for postage. I have'nt seen the postage fool mark, but I like it! If aletter has at least half or the needed postage, then it goes on postage due. If I run across a personal letter, card or something that looks like an invitation without postage, I'll deliver it and try to collect from the recipient to keep from messing up someone's birthday or mother or father's day greetings. I've even put the stamp on them myself sometimes. You know, random acts of kindness! Don't count on that from your mailman though,you'll probobly be disapointed!

[blackf0rk]

You don't think that you are the first one that thought of this, do you?
Of course not. There aren't too many things people dream up that haven't been already. Although, I do claim that I thought it up by myself while not knowing exactly who else has though it up - does that count? :P

[Marauderman]

A letter with no postage is supposed to be returned to sender postage due, which means he should have to pay to get his letter back which would knock out the above situation about the return address being where you really wanted it to go. I said SUPPOSED TO . If its local it usually just gets returned with a note or stamp stating returned for postage. I have'nt seen the postage fool mark, but I like it! If aletter has at least half or the needed postage, then it goes on postage due. If I run across a personal letter, card or something that looks like an invitation without postage, I'll deliver it and try to collect from the recipient to keep from messing up someone's birthday or mother or father's day greetings. I've even put the stamp on them myself sometimes. You know, random acts of kindness! Don't count on that from your mailman though,you'll probobly be disapointed!
WOW!--There isn't anything--any occupantion we don't have on this board it seems--we DO have A MAILMAN------WOW--sorry--didn't mean to hi-jack the thread--it's just --well.. we seem to have just about everything--just ask --and you will receive---gotta love this site---ok back to normal subject posting--....Tom

[Donny Carlson]

WOW!--There isn't anything--any occupantion we don't have on this board it seems--we DO have A MAILMAN------WOW--sorry--didn't mean to hi-jack the thread--it's just --well.. we seem to have just about everything--just ask --and you will receive---gotta love this site---ok back to normal subject posting--....Tom
We have more than one, Tom :)

I've seen people -- even businesses -- try this idea... no postage and drop it in the mail box thinking it will be returned to the sender, the return address being the real destination. If I pick up mail from a residential box or business and find such a thing, I return the piece back to the mailer and don't send it to mail processing. If I find such a thing in a collection box, I hand it to a clerk, who puts it in a penalty envelope and returns it to the sender postage due. I've seen businesses try to short pay postage on mail pieces and have the same address for the sender and the return, the same idea applies. These get sent to AMS or Address Management Services, and they get a stern letter along with a demand for payment of short postage.

You name it, it's been tried. Reusing bulk mailing stamps? Been done. Peeling off a stamp that looks like it isn't cancelled and reusing it? Been done (they use a chemical in the cancellation process that coats most of the front of a mail piece, so even if it looks it isn't cancelled, it is and the machines will detect it if you try to use a stamp over). Mail out stuff under Standard permits or non profit permits without taking it to a BME unit? Been done.

Cripes, it's only 37 cents.

[TooManyFords]

Really! For cripes sakes, why would anyone try to cheat DZ out of some bling, bling money!!

:laugh:

[Donny Carlson]

Really! For cripes sakes, why would anyone try to cheat DZ out of some bling, bling money!!

:laugh:

That's "DN" The "z" comes at the end.:)

[mailman]

Hey Donny! I'm glad us Postal folks were here to set the record straight! I don't post too often but always enjoy all your posts. Hope all is well with you.

[Petrograde]

..just don't get all postal on us you two! :P

My grandfather was a letter carrier after he retired from the Army,.. he was a really cranky guy. I thought it was because of all that damn mail that never stops coming.

I think that would bug me.

anyway,.. thanks guys. Thanks for bringing me my Summit catalogs! :up: I appreciate it!

[martyo]

Hey Donny! I'm glad us Postal folks were here to set the record straight! I don't post too often but always enjoy all your posts. Hope all is well with you.


You two guys should start a thread about all those "special deliveries" you get to make on your routes. Here, let me start it for you:

"Dear Penthouse:

Recently while braving sleet and freezing rain, so I could make a delivery to my favorite postal patron, Betty Big Breasts......."

[mailman]

O the stories I could tell ! You get to see a little bit of everything on a mailroute {and some things you don't want to see!} Get some pretty strange offers sometimes too. You would'nt believe the people who answer the door with little or nothing on.

[martyo]

O the stories I could tell ! You get to see a little bit of everything on a mailroute {and some things you don't want to see!} Get some pretty strange offers sometimes too. You would'nt believe the people who answer the door with little or nothing on.

Get to posting about it then! I suggest starting a new thread immediately!

[Petrograde]

...You would'nt believe the people who answer the door with little or nothing on....

I only wanna hear this story if it involes a pretty red head with big boobs! :P ..or something to that effect!

:banana2: :bows: :banned: :banned: :D

[mailman]

Well that narrows it down ! Like I said, its usually something you would rather not see. Not quite like Desperate Housewives ! More like The Twilight Zone.

[teamrope]

Mrs TR mailed a box to our daughter and forgot to put postage on it. It went all the way to Kansas City, then came back to Seattle with a stamp that said "NEEDS POSTAGE".

[Donny Carlson]

You two guys should start a thread about all those "special deliveries" you get to make on your routes. Here, let me start it for you:

"Dear Penthouse:

Recently while braving sleet and freezing rain, so I could make a delivery to my favorite postal patron, Betty Big Breasts......."
I've seen my share of naked people of both sexes. I hate it when guys want to sign for stuff in their underwear (or birthday suits), love it when nekkid women jump out of the shower to sign for stuff.

A coworker claimed he was about to deliver mail to a house and when he got up on the porch, the mailbox was missing. The front door was open, screen door shut and he heard the lady of the house call out "the mail box is in here, come on in" he looked through the screen door and saw her sitting naked on the floor of the hall, the mailbox between her legs.

My T-6 (replacement carrier) has a woman on my route that's in love with him. She sits out and waits for him on his day on the route, tries to hug and kiss him. Once acutally grabbed him and planted one right on his lips. She always asks about him when I deliver her mail, and once told me she had a long affair with a mail man back at her old address. True love it is. She's about 90, Mike transferred here from Long Island and is 30ish. I tease him mercilessly about it. Mike supposedly has 10 body piercings (I've only seen the ear piercings and he admitted to me -- and I NEVER want to see it -- that he has a Prince Albert)