by A Paduan 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Do they have the right to stick something through your door ?
Came home to find some non-prophet litter-at-ya inside the house, shoved through a wee gap in the door.
It's like they just entered uninvited as they pleased for themselves - I wonder if I have grounds for legal complaint for such rudeness and contempt of other people's privacy.
Maybe we could shove propaganda through the door down at their hall
I don't know how legal it is. We did have someone plop a brochure on the KH doorstep ala Martin Luther already, haha. Maybe somebody on these boards, i wonder....
In the US is against federal law to put anything through a mail slot or in a mailbox unless you are a postal worker. Maybe you could get a law passed.
*** km 6/91 p. 3 Announcements ***
The Society has on occasion received correspondence from the postal service and other individuals about literature being placed in mailboxes without proper postage. Publishers should be reminded that, according to government regulations, anyone who puts material into a mailbox without having properly paid the postage faces a fine of up to $300 for each offense.
They have the same legal right as any other religion who might stick a flyer in your door, or any business canvassing the neighborhood distributing flyers looking to drum up some business.
Greetings A Paduan,
Not sure if they have the right, but as you know they do it anyway. It's not supposed to show if they do leave something. That way there it won't invite burglars.
Dismembered
Blondie...slots in doors are not considered as protectecd U.S. Postal Boxes.
The Postal Code reads:
3.1.1 Authorized Depository
Except as excluded by 3.1.2, every letterbox or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any city delivery route, rural delivery route, highway contract route, or other mail route is designated an authorized depository for mail within the meaning of 18 USC 1702, 1705, 1708, and 1725.
3.1.2 Exclusions
Door slots and nonlockable bins or troughs used with apartment house mailboxes are not letterboxes within the meaning of 18 USC 1725 and are not private mail receptacles for the standards for mailable matter not bearing postage found in or on private mail receptacles. The post or other support is not part of the receptacle.
This came up in our neighborhood where someone was leaving flyers at peoples homes and some people with slots in the door complained but the post office said it didn't count as a mail box.
Just wanted to clarify so that some in the ex-JW community didn't make a big deal about JWs slipping old mags through the slot in their door.
They have as much right as anyone else who sends junk mail or flyers. In some places, such as the USA there are laws against them using the mailbox. Here in Canada they can use the mailbox, but most will slide it in the door so it isn't visible to passersby.
Remember, the same laws that protect their right to leave tracts at your home protect your right to leave information at their homes and kingdom halls if you wish.
W
The congregations in this area have been told not to put anything through a slot in the door...too many angry phone calls. No point in pushing your "legal" right to do it and upset the community. (thanks for the adjustment)
Blondie
Their publications are spiritual junk, simply take it and throw it in the bin just like all other commercial junk.
shoved through a wee gap in the door.
I took this to mean between the door and the frame. So it's not even a real slot intended to pass things through. This would not fall under any postal code.
Would it be a cross between Littering, UnAuthorized Entry, and PeepingTom???
I remember carefully slipping leaflets thru the side of the door like this and pushing it through so it could not been seen from the outside.
It would bother me if someone did this at my front door. It sort of bothered me back then, too.
-Aude.
