18 U.S. Code § 1705 - Destruction of letter boxes or mail
Whoever willfully or maliciously injures, tears down or destroys any letter box or other receptacle intended or used for the receipt or delivery of mail on any mail route, or breaks open the same or willfully or maliciously injures, defaces or destroys any mail deposited therein, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 779; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 38, 63 Stat. 95; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title III, § 3002(a)(2), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1805.)
GA note: The culprit was so giddy about posting this sign on Ravi's corner, facing his home, they "forgot" that it's a federal crime to post political advertising on federal USPS property.
USPS Postal Bulletin (Issue 21861, 2-17-94, p. 37):Mailable Matter in or on Private Mail Receptacles Mailable matter not bearing postage found in or on private mail receptacles represents a revenue deficiency to the Postal Service and is a violation of federal law. Title 18 United States Code, section 1725, provides for a fine of not more than $300 per piece for these violations. All employees must uniformly enforce the procedures detailed in the Domestic Mail Manual, section P011.2.0. The failure to enforce these procedures uniformly may jeopardize the criminal prosecution of repeated violators.
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ReplyDeleteLooking at this sign, it’s noticeable that it’s NOT facing the street or even what’s clearly a street corner. In either instance, more people would see the sign. Instead, it seems whoever posted it rather sloppily (it seems to be hanging outside the mailbox) put the sign facing Ravi’s home.
ReplyDeleteLook’s like Giattino version of a burning cross, meant to intimidate, no other purpose. Why else have the sign face, as this picture shows, where it would have the least visibility.
Classy. Btw, I have also heard that people associated with the Giattino campaign are harassing immigrant store owners specifically to put up their campaign signs.
Now if someone went to all those immigrant store owners with a camera phone and asked them simply, “Who is Jen Giattino?” or “Do you know any of Jen Giattino’s campaign positions?” that would be a great video.
Any takers?
ReplyDeletethe HR article on the debate includes something about how a giattino supporter was harassing MDF's partner at work. jen didn't know about it and told the supporter to stop. i believe her, good on her...but by the same token don't let anyone tell you her campaign is being run as the pinnacle of honor and integrity.
Jen's seeming gentility and scruples have attracted a core group who have neither. Polling so far indicates that reform would have a comfortable lead were it not for this second candidacy. I am already envisioning the "it was worth it" essays and letters to the editor intended to excuse handing the city back to the dark side. They'll tell you how it was better to lose and become "stronger and more focused"; how standing up for principle sometimes entails nearterm defeats; how only the battle was lost, not the war.
ReplyDeleteMight as well write them now, because that's how it's going down. That way you just have to hit send in a couple of weeks. And then you can take the Suez deal, quit pretending Washington Street only needed touch-up paving vs a generational rehab, and generally stop acting like whatever helps Jen is good for Hoboken. Shitting on your neighbors is not good for Hoboken.
Amen! "Jen" and her Motley Crew of "reformers"are trashing the reform message minute by minute. When I think of all the heavy lifting that was done by Real Reformers over the last eight to ten years to lift Hoboken out of the morass of Dark Side Corruption, I could really cry very large tears for all of us. "Jen" and "Tiff" are selfishly destroying the progressive movement in Hoboken for ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON AT ALL. They are simply SELFISH, SELFISH, SELFISH! I read my Ward Councilperson Peter Cunningham's endorsement in the most recent HR..."the reason I love Jen"...really, Peter??? How unbelievably ridiculous you sound. Just what has happened to good people of sound reason in this town? What a bunch of feckless, spineless wonders. UGH!
Deletebingo, dang. by definition, the entitled are incapable of swallowing a bitter pill. they'll undoubtedly prefer a cocktail of self-righteous sanctimony and blame casting. i wonder if some of them will feel any awkwardness when they try to resume their pre-campaign season lives in the community...let's say, for instance, at local hoboken democratic committee meetings.
ReplyDeleteyes Kellyanne Fisher can't help herself on Facebox lobbing out topics as "insider baseball" while #4thplaceJenn hides behind all posts (signs and social media)...
Deletethe head of the hoboken democratic committee enthusiastically campaigning for a republican mayoral candidate and attacking a fellow democrat in the race...i believe we've found a new dictionary definition of "an inconvenient truth".
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ReplyDeleteMSV has decided that the Bhalla campaign put the sign there. In cahoots with GA (to publicize it). I assume the remaining reason to read the site is to find out what MSV has lately "decided". It decided:
ReplyDelete-Seth Rich, rather than the Russians, released the DNC emails.
-Pizzagate was real.
-The Las Vegas shooter was connected to antifa.
-Bhalla wants to open bars on the UDD site.
And now MSV has "decided" Giattino's campaign is just too clean to have had anything to do with that finger-in-the-eye stunt with a poster. Too clean that is, notwithstanding a published report of a Giattino insider going after another candidate's SO's employment.
Let me just add here that it's particularly sinister to do that to a gay man. No matter what workplace legal protections are supposed to be, the practice of planting the seed "that gay employee of yours seems like he might be more trouble than he's worth" is ubiquitous and depressingly effective. This Barnes guy is a gutless piece of shit. And Giattino telling the offended party "talk to him yourself" instead of taking ownership is absolutely contemptible. Not to mention gutless. Hey, Jen, how about another sermon about the importance of "constituent services." Bullshit.
Meanwhile, there are no comments about Bhalla anywhere that don't include a sleazy, unsupported pay-to-play innuendo and the equally "knowing" assertion that he only wants the job for 15 minutes.
It's an ethical free-fall from here to November 7th. Hang onto your dignity.
I saw Roman's conspiracy theory that Bhalla hung the sign on the mailbox for me to publish- hysterical.
DeleteBut not as funny as the "sexist" label he put on my Dating Game graphic. Oh my goodness... Dunno, maybe that "sexist" label belonged on Kurt Gardiner's photoshop of yours-truly as a blow up doll (labeled "Nancy") servicing the Mayor's husband (labeled "StanIAm"! ) My family deserves an apology! Now! Hop to it! I mean, gallop to it! Apologize! Oh wait- Kurt's sex toy photoshop was incredibly witty "political satire"... briilliant, in fact. Not at all "sexist" like my horse contestant playing the Dating Game with Jen Giattino! Bwaaaah haw haw.