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odie:
Does anybody know how HLA gets around United States Postal Regulations by opening and screening resident's mail for content and appropriateness as they say they do on their website? As  read the regulations this is forbidden and carries both fines and incarceration for each offense.
http://www.usps.com/websites/depart/inspect/usc18/
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.
--Isaac Asimov, Russian-born American author
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Troll Control:
Short answer?  They just do it.  This is not the only law/regulation they flout.

They're well-connected with SACS (Len's four buddies just did a site visit and recertified HLA as a "traditional boarding school" even though they are obviously no such thing) and ORS, so even if complaints are made, they are derailed.

Do you have any suggestions on how to bring to bear the appropriate enforcement agency?

Troll Control:

--- Quote ---Section 1702. Obstruction of correspondence
Whoever takes any letter, postal card, or package out of any post office or any authorized depository for mail matter, or from any letter or mail carrier, or which has been in any post office or authorized depository, or in the custody of any letter or mail carrier, before it has been delivered to the person to whom it was directed, with design to obstruct the correspondence, or to pry into the business or secrets of another, or opens, secretes, embezzles, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Section 1703. Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers
(a) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail entrusted to them or which shall come into his or her possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier or other employee of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(b) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, improperly detains, delays, or destroys any newspaper, or permits any other person to detain, delay, or destroy the same, or opens, or permits any other person to open, any mail or package of newspapers not directed to the office of employment; or

Whoever, without authority, opens, or destroys any mail or package of newspapers not directed to them, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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The statutes being violated by HLA.

odie:
Unless they are now also claiming to be a correctional facility nobody can open another person's mail without a federal search warrant. Oh and you can't force someone to sign one of those neat little consent to open forms either as a lot of these programs do as a requirement for acceptance into their program. Complaints can be made to the local post inspector or a report may be filed online at:
https://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/m ... ntrcvd.htm
I swear by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
* - ~ Galt's Creed ~ - *
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Troll Control:
Thank you, Odie, for your research and responses.

The complaints will be forthcoming.

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