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

yours truly | 8-28-11 | rawhide

[blueunicorn6]

Hmmmmmm......let’s see if we can connect the dots on this.

[melsec]

Fema - blue dots mean you are the first to shuffled off to the rail cars, Yellow dots second and so on! Now you don’t want a red dot cause......(/sarcasm)

[dljordan]

“They’re part of the FedGov’s experimental Dangerous Seditionist Identification and Tracking (DSIT) program.”

Nah, it’s Gypsys.

[onthelookout777]

“Your mailboxes have boxpox.”
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Best answer.

Having skimmed through some of your posts, I hope you’ll try writing a comedy novel sometime - or maybe you have already. (If one’s available, I’d like to know about it.) You have a gift.

[Lady Lucky]

Thank you for the kind words. Matter of fact I do write elsewhere, but always with an alias. I’m trying to get through life incognito. :)

[Freedom56v2]

I would ask neighbors if they know what is source, then I would bring it up at next HOA meeting. Have you seen them in other subdivisions?

Could also contact city or county and inquire...

[verity]

You are scheduled to be removed to the reeducation camps for the hopelessly paranoid.

[Yardstick]

Lets the mailman know what size chocolate ration to put in your box.

Three green dots = model citizen and/or member of protected class = 2.5 ounces.

[Robert A Cook PE]

The original bums and tramps (from the mid-1860’s through the 1950’s) used similar markings to show which houses were “easy taps” for free meals.....

And which should be avoided as dangers.

[ataDude]

Targets.

[SaraJohnson]

Remove the dots and if that is not possible, replace the mailboxes. Immediately, if not sooner.

[SaraJohnson]

Get rid of any and all “dots.”

[thecodont]

Now seriously, I was reading somewhere that either gangs or would be thieves have been using symbols to mark their marks. Such as an arrow means seldom home and an X means home all day, etc. After observing they place a mart as a way to determine the best time of day, if any to target your home. Not sure if they would use dots that way, but that is the first thing I thought of. And if I remember it correctly what I read, this has been done in places in Europe over the last several years though not with dots.

Hobo symbols?

http://www.worldpath.net/~minstrel/hobosign.htm

[Taffini]

what state are you in?

Are these street mailboxes?

Big town, small town?

[rawhide]

I will do that and let you know.

[meyer]

Local newspaper uses them around here to know which driveways to throw papers at. I learned this when I pried the dot off my mailbox - they stopped delivering the paper the next day.

[Shadowstrike]

If that’s true, someone made a BIG mistake and put a freen one on mine ;)

[Shadowstrike]

If that’s true, someone made a BIG mistake and put a green one on mine ;)

[right way right]

ROTFLMAO!

I got a yellow one.

[right way right]

ROTFLMAO!

I got a yellow one.