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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

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evilwizardguy
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landofwindandthrowingshade

If this happens to you, remember that stealing a person's mail in the U.S. is a federal crime, one with a penalty of up to five years of jail time and heavy fines, which compounds with every individual offense. Know your rights, especially your rights as a tenant. Fuck landlords

vergess

Report them to your local post office, not to the local police.

USPS Inspection is pretty much the only law enforcement agency worthy of respect. They’ve literally always resolved any problem I reported to them (albeit often slowly) and I have never once heard of them extrajudicially murdering someone.

And when I say “always” I mean, there are law firms around the country that will happily advertise themselves as able to get you off the hook for police, statie, FBI, CIA, and UCMJ situations with an almost 100% success rate. And they will outright refuse to go up against postal inspection, because that’s a legal fight no one else ever wins.

Cops will take the landlord’s side.

The USPS is here to help you.

(Which is probably why the feds keep going out of their way to try and nuke the entire postal service tbh)

anotherdayforchaosfay

I had a neighbor that kept stealing my mail. To prevent this, I had to be outside when the mail carrier arrived. I informed them of my dilemma, how long it had been happening, I had photographs of them doing this. The carrier then only delivered mail at my door after knocking and waiting for me to come to answer. It took several months, but my neighbor got landed with almost ten years in prison for this because 1) USPS doesn’t fuck around, 2) I had pictures of over a dozen instances; they often took my mail, poured beer or soda on it, and then dumped it in the trash, and 3) I wasn’t the only person they did this to.

The cops took no interest and told me to just get a PO Box. FYI, those aren’t free and getting to the post office is difficult when Disabled.

I wasn’t required to go to court. It was all taken care of. No more mail was stolen. The USPS does not fuck around, they fuck you up if you fuck up.

the-real-skeletor

USPS is better than the US police and should replace them

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prokopetz

A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:

  • When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.
     
  • If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.
     
  • This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.
     
  • Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.
     
  • This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.
     
  • Note that this is only true if you use Tumblr’s built-in reblogging function. If you save someone else’s content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on.
     
  • This means that on Tumblr, “reblogging” and “reposting” are two different things; if you see someone complaining about “reposting”, this is not the same as reblogging.
     
  • Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this – unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet – and you can and should do so freely.
     
  • However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may “back up” one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment.
     
  • Nobody understands tags, and there’s a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning.
     
  • Tags are a divine mystery.
prokopetz

(For those going “how is this not obvious”, it’s about prior expectations, bro. On many major social media platforms, using the built-in sharing tools does divert user engagement from the original post. For example, as noted above, quote-retweeting on Twitter causes likes to accrue to the quote-retweet instead of the original tweet. This is because Twitter is hostile to human life.)

eregyrn-falls

It’s really good for stuff like this to go around every once in a while!  Strange as it may seem, people may in fact migrate here from Twitter or Instagram, where this stuff works differently and where there are different expectations of engagement.

DON’T FORGET - *most* Tumblr users DO NOT MIND if you engage with their OLD posts!  (Apparently on Instagram they do? this baffles me.) 

Many also don’t mind if you “spam” their notifications with a bunch of likes or reblogs in a row.  

Tumblr has a rich culture of Very Old Posts continuing to make the reblog rounds, and people become fond of them.

Also, unlike Twitter, you can reblog the same post multiple times.  Heck, you can reblog the same post every hour on the hour for days. (Please don’t.)  But you do see a lot of “oh this came across my dash again, must reblog” with posts users are fond of.  This is fine.

Tags ARE a divine mystery.  People use the tags both for organization (inasmuch as this works, sometimes), and for added commentary.  Commentary added to the tags will generally be seen by those who follow that person and see their reblog on their dash; but the OP and whoever they reblogged it from can also see the tags in the notifications. 

So again – you can use the tags for commentary, and many people do. But people WILL see it.  It just won’t “stick” with the post… necessarily.  Tumblr also has a culture of people seeing some tags they think are relevant or clever, and reblogging a post with someone else’s tags included.  So bear that in mind as well – something you put in the tags could get “pulled up” into a reblog chain by someone else, and this is generally seen as fine.

plaguedoctorwriter

As a noob me self, nice!