# The Post Office Opened My Mail **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-opened-my-mail/941386 "2021-05-04T19:17:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 45
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-opened-my-mail/941386/45 "2021-05-07T00:09:21Z")
> [@nelliebly](#): > > Am I the only one who finds this disturbing? Very disturbing… > [@'Address Service Requested'](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/address-service-requested/932827): > > As many of you may already know, I have a number of scientific and medical theories that I have been trying to share with people for about 20 years now, if not more. Anyways, I like using the US mail to share it sometimes. Why not? But I have noticed a lot of them have been returned to me. And it sometimes for the stupidest of reasons. A letter is off, a number, maybe I didn’t specify the suite, maybe the person has moved to the next floor. You get the picture. So I bought this stamp from Amaz… > [@What's the Purpose of Security Envelopes?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-purpose-of-security-envelopes/855177): > > I might as well tell you, I have a number of scientific theories I have been trying to share with people for some time now. I think I even shared a couple on these boards, FWIW. And I like the postal service, because it is governed by the First Amendment. Not that I need it. But I mean, if a message board moderator (not necessarily on these boards) gets a bee in their bonnet, they can’t censor me. Anyway, that has little or nothing to do with my question. Security envelopes. I myself use them, … > [@Returned International Mail.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/returned-international-mail/686802): > > Although some of you might find it hard to believe, I sometime use the old-fashioned USPS mail system (so-called snail mail). And sometimes (not very often) I have to send my mail overseas (typically to some other English-speaking country [I speak no foreign language]). Oh, it is really easy. Just take the letter to the front window. And the lady there stamps it with this postal bar code. Then the foreign country, as I understand it, gets a share of the money I spent for the letter. And of cour… > [@Mail Over 1 lb. with No Return Address.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-over-1-lb-with-no-return-address/381232): > > What happens to mail weighing over one pound mailed in an outside mail box, with no return address? I know if such a parcel had a return address, it would be returned to sender, since you must take all U.S. mail weighing over a pound to the post office now. BTW, I am talking about harmless mail, not a terrorist plot or anything like that. Thank you in advance to all who reply slight_smile > [@What Does CSICOP Do With the Chain Letters You Send Them?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-csicop-do-with-the-chain-letters-you-send-them/281288): > > As many of you probably already know, CSICOP (i.e., Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Paranormal) is an organization of skeptical scientists. And perhaps persuant to this, they have [this](http://www.csicop.org/chain/) website to break people of their habit of bugging others with superstitious chain letters. They tell you, if you must send a chain letter to someone, don’t bother some poor stranger with it. Send it to them. And they even provide you with a postal address [here](http://www.csicop.org/chain/postal.html) and an online method [here](http://www.csicop.org/chain/form.html). When you … > [@What Happens to Chain Letters You Send to This Address?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-to-chain-letters-you-send-to-this-address/148675): > > A little while ago, while surfing the net, I came across [this](http://www.csicop.org/chain/) website. It is runned by [CSICOP](http://www.csicop.org)–the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. As many of you may already know, they are a group of scientists that like to debunk outrageous claims, like of ghosts, UFO’s and the like. As you can see, [it](http://www.csicop.org/chain/) is meant to help people who are “addicted” to sending those dreaded chain letters–which it of course is totally against. I got that part. But what I don’t understand, is w… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-post-office-opened-my-mail/941386)._