Mysterious colored dots on our mailboxes just showed up the last day or two. What are these about?

yours truly | 8-28-11 | rawhide

[rawhide]

What are these about? Somebody has put mysterious dots on the mailboxes in my subdivision in the last day or two. These are thick reflective dots about an inch in diameter. The one dot on my mailbox is yellow. My next door neighbor has a red dot. My other next door neighbor has 3 green dots. Neighbor down the street has 2 greens and a blue on theirs. They are on both sides of the mailbox, stuck right onto the mailbox itself, not the post. I drove a little throughout the town and many mailboxes have no dots on their mailbox, while their next door neighbor has the dot(s).

[rawhide]

Anyone know or have a clue?

[Truth29]

Don't have any idea if this relates to your area, but that type of system is used by newspapers to identify daily vs. weekly delivery and different periodical publication deliveries.

[Bruce Kurtz]

We have 2 colored dots on our newspaper box, by the mailbox, I think it is for what newspapers you are supposed to get.

[Diogenesis]

the mailboxes have been cloned.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

They’re part of the FedGov’s experimental Dangerous Seditionist Identification and Tracking (DSIT) program. Coloured dots help local, state, and federal dynamic entry agents determine who will require being dealt with first and who can be saved till later. Green means “docile individual,” blue means “some seditionist leanings,” yellow means “gun owner with definate treasonous leanings who reads Free Republic,” and red means “bust their door down and shoot their dog NOW!”

[central_va]

Run. You’ve been targeted for alien abduction. Those boys from Rigel-7 don’t mess around.

[tje]

Well, I googled ‘colored dots on mailboxes’. Surprising number of hits. Some are 2 or 3 years old.. Some say they are death camp markers, but I’ll let you do your own research..

[Young Werther]

It's a digit code used by.....

"There comin to take you away!"

[mamelukesabre]

LOL!

wouldn’t surprise me if they have a system something like that in place. However, I wouldn’t expect them to be so obvious about it.

[rawhide]

I do not get a newspaper.

[Caipirabob]

Are you responsible for Global Warming? NASA funded researchers have warned us that Aliens may be targeting us for attack. Be safe, brother! ; )

You should have gotten 3 red dots. Freeper, gun-owner and global warming denier! We'll put in a call...

Wish I could tell you - call the post office perhaps?

[XEHRpa]

Newspaper route guys use them to denote what newspaper service you get, e.g., none, daily, weekend. etc.

[rawhide]

The guy down the street who has 2 green dots, a blue and a red, what does he get?

[Shqipo]

It's based on the Fascist Green Folder doctrine.

Blue is protected. Yellow will be immediately terminated. Green will be worked to death. Red will be assimilated. What color was yours again?

[OldMissileer]

The dots on mine correspond to the three newspapers I receive and what days I get them

[InvisibleChurch]

We don’t care if you get a newspaper or not, just accept the dots and do as you are told.

[ExGeeEye]

2 Green-- Prius and CFLs in use.

Blue-- Registered Dem.

Red-- aAone, would be registered rep, liquidate during the initial riots. With blue, indicates reliable voter, useful idiot, liquidate after the republic is abolished.

[Reagan69]

Rip them off and see if you get a knock at the door.

[ExGeeEye]

aAone = Alone