Bupkis’, “Deportation: free ticket home?” reminded me of something I have been wanting to do but havent yet done. Can I send a postal letter for free by putting the receiver’s address as the sender’s address and post the letter without stamps? Shouldn’t it be sent back to the sender’s address which in this case is the receiver’s?
If it arrives, it will arrive postage due. Free for you, but not for the recipient.
Yes, but don’t do it because it’s very illegal.
I know there’s been threads about this in the past and maybe even Cecil answered it but I can’t seem to find it.
Okay, so it may not be “very illegal” but there is a fine ($5,000?) involved if you are caught.
Here are two other threads with more info:
We used to do it a lot in high school (ahhh, my mispent youth) and it worked pretty much every time. Every once in a while they’d hold one at the post office postage due and you had to go down there and pay them.
But yeah, don’t do it.