Why did the post office refuse to take my mailing without a return address?

Question

I knew the address I was mailing to was correct. I just didn't want a relative to have my address. I know I could have just made one up or use the address I was mailing to as the return address. So, is it a requirement to have a return address on a mailing through the USA postoffice? Am I now a "person of interest?" How far do we take these things on the war on terror which is where I assume this policy has come from?

Answer 1

They do require it.



The Post Office sent me a notice that I had to list everyone who recieves mail at my PO Box.

Since when is it the government's business who I might be squeezing these days!?



If somone gives the PO $0.41 to send a letter to my PO box..deliver the stinkin' letter to my PO box!

Answer 2

It has always been the policy of the US postal service to require a return address. The first letter I remember mailing as a little boy almost 40 years ago was rejected for the same reason.



The return address does not have to be your address. You can make it the actual destination, if you wish. The reason for the return address is to help prevent mail from ending up in the dead letter section. Even though the address is correct, it could get smeared, smudged, or ripped off the envelope entirely en route. Without the return address the post office would not know where to return your mail. Also, the intended recipient could move without a forwarding address.



You can make the return address the local post office, if you live in a sufficiently small community, and do not want a relative to know your address. Or you could make it the address of another relative you trust not to divulge YOUR address should the letter prove undeliverable.



I have mailed envelopes to a post office that contained a letter with the actual address. That way the person you're sending mail to won't even have a post mark from the city you are sending from. This, however, costs 82 cents instead of 41 cents (obviously).



Finally, you could also send your letter Federal Express for a mere $15. I think they prefer a return address also, however.



Addendum: You might think Pegasus is kidding, but the US government runs foreign gulags with torture policies far more excessive than the mild water boarding and blanket parties practiced at Guantanamo Bay. Furthermore, the President has authorized himself to read your mail without a warrant. You could be declared an "enemy combatant" and extremely rendited without recourse to habeaus corpus, held incommunicado, tortured at some foreign gulag, and all your assets seized, based solely upon the president's say so. So far we know of only a very small handful of american citizens to whom this has happened, but then, the actual number is also secret.



Joseph Stalin's favorite expression was "no man, no problem." So far this president has not killed anywhere near as many people as Joseph Stalin, but he has granted the power to behave with relative impugnity to whomever the next president might be. We can all hope and pray the american electorate makes a much better decision next time.

Answer 3

You do not mention in your question what type of item you were attempting to mail.

Was it an letter or a parcel?

If it was a parcel the reason for refusing it is apparent. The US Postal Service has to guarantee the safety of any parcels that may be shipped aboard aircraft. Would you really want it any other way?

Your attempt to say 'how far do we take these things' reflects an attitude of distrust, which is exactly the reason government policy is such. You do not trust the authorities, yet you want them to trust you. Very naive.

Answer 4

i know this sounds stupid, yet rip up the crap that incorporates a postage paid envelope and stuff interior the postage paid envelope and deliver it decrease back. Takes some months, yet they're going to take you off. as nicely, it delivers some thing to do whilst sitting on the bathroom and you are able to't attain the reader's digest. Or in case you do no longer desire to try this, extra acceptable than writing addressee unknown on the envelope, mark them as deceased. they're going to eliminate them thoroughly from the database. in case you in simple terms mark unknown, they go away them lively and, considering the fact that they have not got a clean handle, proceed to apply yours. yet another selection.......fill out a forward order utilising an handle that would not exist and enable the positioned up place of work cope with the pile. The positioned up place of work isn't meant to place mail in a mailbox besides it particularly is addressed incorrectly, and to that end, being that Mr. Sherman would not stay there, it quite is obviously addressed incorrectly. you are able to desire to heavily push that subject (yet would finally end up including your very own lacking mail out of revenge). And, i could confess that I and a bunch of my acquaintances did this to a woman in junior highschool. possibly a legal offense being that it in touch the positioned up place of work, yet we did no longer know to any extent further acceptable. She have been given magazines, civil conflict chess contraptions, and collector's plates, too. And, sure, we registered her with all the militia positioned up taking part in cards. If it had a rip-out card in a mag, she have been given one crammed out along with her call on it. She under no circumstances did know who did it. no longer my proudest 2d, yet a minimal of it replaced into clean relaxing and not damaging.

Answer 5

YOU are spending YOUR 41 cents to send YOUR letter/documents some where. The post office is not responsible to safely deliver the item. it's not a law that you put return address.

And what does it have to do with terrorism?

Answer 6

you bet ye, next you know you are on a rendition flight to gitmo.