My school is doing something immoral, is it illegal too?

[Immortal Wombat]

Re: My school is doing something immoral, is it illegal too?

Originally posted by Vesayen
I am now sharing a mail box with some girl I have never even met let alone know if I trust with acess to my mail.... you were pre-approved for a credit card? Well your postal box sharer only has to do a fake signature send it in and spend money on your expense! besides a dozen other terrible scenarios I can think of that have happened EVERY year this sharing policy has been in effect.... thoughts?

Try one of those awful scenarios, and then see if the school sees sense.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by rev
I don't think there are laws saying that only one person or entity can lay claim to a mailbox. It is, however, illegal for anyone else to open or read your mail.

My school (Whittier College) had a similar problem (too few mailboxes), so they held a bunch of student mail in the post office, and students had to pick it up during certain hours by showing I.D. God, I hope they've fixed that by the time I go back in the spring.

Hi, Adam.

[Imran Siddiqui]

They simply force complete and total strangers to share them!

Why is this immoral and/or illegal? Most people in my undergrad university had to share their mailboxes, so what?

And no, it definetly isn't illegal (or else it would be illegal for roommates to have one mailbox). It is illegal for the other person to steal your mail though.

[Kirnwaffen]

The school should probably fix the problem for liability reasons. I don't think it would be too far fetched for them to be held civily liable for any damages that resulted from the policy. Somehow, I don't see this being something that there would be a law about. Not exactly a common problem...

[:) Smiley]

At the very least they could at least group people by room, which is what they did when I was a freshman. Each room had 1 mailbox in the central building, each room 2 or 3 people.

[Felch]

Seriously, the best idea is to hook up with the girl. You get security and poontang.

[Kirnwaffen]

Question is, will she cost more than the credit card fraud?

[Skanky Burns]

But then if he strays and some other girl starts writing him love letters . . .

[MrFun]

At least your school is not having a bake sale where prices are based on race of the buyers . . .

[Imran Siddiqui]

They should .

[MrFun]

Oh, be quiet and eat your Oreos.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Which I had to pay .50 for . (Actually I have no idea how much Subcontinentals had to pay)

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Which I had to pay .50 for . (Actually I have no idea how much Subcontinentals had to pay)

[Imran Siddiqui]

Though I wonder how that would have gone if the guy behind the table was a minority.

Anyway, [/end threadjack]

[Bosh]

This is pretty common in colleges, my college did the same. No need to be paranoid, the worst that will happen is your boxmate will leave all her stuff in their and it'll be a pain to check your mail.