# What's the most disturbing thing you could ever find in your mailbox? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 25, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762 "2002-05-25T04:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/1 "2002-05-25T04:34:23Z")
I would imagine that going down to the mailbox, coffee in hand, opening the little door to find a used condom filled with helium would probably ruin my day. Any worse? ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/2 "2002-05-25T04:43:03Z")
Letters from the IRS used to bother me, but now I guess severed body parts or pipe bombs would head the list. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/3 "2002-05-25T06:15:25Z")
Off to **IMHO**. * * * **Cajun Man** - SDMB Moderator ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/4 "2002-05-25T06:46:09Z")
Thanks Cajun Man ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/5 "2002-05-25T10:11:16Z")
I found a note, the other day, from my neigbours. Telling me they were going to repair their house and “it might be a bit noisy” AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/6 "2002-05-25T23:29:22Z")
About 7 months ago, I would have said a big pile of anthrax, but I DID almost get bit by a black widow spider the other day getting the mail…scared the crap outta me! She must have been reading my Entertainment Weekly…maybe for Spiderman articles? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/7 "2002-05-25T23:36:52Z")
ummmmm, mebbe a letter from hubby’s ex?? ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/8 "2002-05-26T00:08:56Z")
Oh, no one here remembers the movie _Se7en_? “Come on, what’s in the box?!” :eek: Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/9 "2002-05-26T00:10:46Z")
Bill Clinton Or any other politician, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/10 "2002-05-26T00:24:22Z")
An AOL disk. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/11 "2002-05-26T00:29:00Z")
If a black widow bites you-will you die? I would have to say a blood soaked rag. Or a needle with a note attached telling me I now have HIV. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/12 "2002-05-26T00:38:40Z")
A letter from the US Goverment that starts out, Greetings ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/13 "2002-05-26T02:12:12Z")
I once found a dead bird in mine. That was quite disturbing. Seems he had gotten in there and couldn’t get out. Not exactly the bills and whatnot I was expecting. ---
**Author:** ![Com2Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Com2Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Com2Kid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/14 "2002-05-26T03:03:14Z")
Real Life death threats from any of the plurality of people online who have threatened to kill me. 😃 That would be freaky. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/15 "2002-05-26T03:08:09Z")
A fetus. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/16 "2002-05-26T09:44:44Z")
a letter telling me my loved one is chosen as the leader of our very own right-wing LPF. ---
**Author:** ![madcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@madcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madcat)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/17 "2002-05-26T10:19:58Z")
Tickets to a DeFranco Family Reunion Concert. ---
**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kase)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/18 "2002-05-26T12:49:02Z")
Ooooo good one. How about: tickets to a Celine Dion concert ---
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/19 "2002-05-26T15:40:29Z")
The vast majority of letters sent to me by various government agencies have ruined my day. “Dear Sir, the test results have come back and you have [whatever disease scares you the most].” “Dear Sir, this letter is to inform you that you have been recalled to active duty . . .” I don’t know if they can really do that but it’s happened to people in a couple books I’ve read. I saw a movie where a guy opened his mailbox and found a pissed off rattlesnake. **Daoloth** ’s fetus is pretty bad. I suppose your dead pet or, worse, your dead child, or a part of one of your other loved ones would be pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762/20 "2002-05-26T15:54:19Z")
A black hole. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-disturbing-thing-you-could-ever-find-in-your-mailbox/110762.md?page=2)