View Single Post
  #42 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
sf[_9_] sf[_9_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 61,789
Default I've heard of devil's food cake ...

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:56:40 -0400, Nancy Young
> wrote:

> On 7/26/2015 1:17 PM, sf wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 11:11:11 -0400, Nancy Young
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> But I don't know what's up with the original scenario, lots
> >> of people don't have mailboxes but just PO boxes.

> >
> > There's a huge difference between "sneaking" mail into someone else's
> > mailbox without permission by someone too cheap to put up their own
> > and doing it with the expressed permission of the owner. I suppose
> > the people who don't find it objectionable don't mind strangers
> > entering their homes and helping themselves to the contents either.

>
> Putting a letter in my mailbox is nothing like stealing my stuff.
>
> I'm pretty sure you're never going to run into anyone putting
> mail into your box, so no worries anyone's going to get one over
> on you like that. Doesn't change the fact that tossing out mail
> you find in there that isn't addressed to you is against the law.
>

That remains to be seen.

--

sf