Your Spouse Gets A Fed Ex Package.......

[qchelle]

I open his mail all the time. I'm actually the only 1 with a mailbox key. It wouldn't be an issue for us.

 

[BEAUTYU2U]

It's probably time for me to take a break from crime shows for awhile

 

[jdvzmommy]

My uncle always used to say it's a federal offense to open someone else's mail...

It is, if you do so without permission - even if you're married....

If my husband is going to report me for opening his mail, we have some real deep issues.

 

[Sharpened]

Since I handle the finances, I open everything. DH rarely opens any and will leave his packages collecting dust, which annoys the children and I if something needs returning.

If it is someone else's last name, "return to sender" and left for postal worker.

 

[BackToMyRoots]

Obviously either one of us can open our mail, but I don't open his mail and he doesn't open mine.

It's not a big deal if either of us did, but I appreciate the little boundaries we allow each other. There is no right or wrong I think. Just different ways couples agree to approach their relationships.

 

[LunadeMiel]

I open whatever comes into my house. When we were first married I think it bothered him a bit but now if I don't open it he gets annoyed because he has to

 

[LivingInPeace]

I don’t open my husband’s mail or packages unless he’s at work and asks me. I don’t want him opening my mail. It’s never occurred to me to open someone else’s mail.

 

[intellectualuva]

I dont open other peoples mail and likely wouldn't as a rule, but my ex started opening my Amazon packages toward the end "because they came to his house"...so I would've opened this. Lol. We can thug it out if he gets mad.

 

[BEAUTYU2U]

I don’t open my husband’s mail or packages unless he’s at work and asks me. I don’t want him opening my mail. It’s never occurred to me to open someone else’s mail.

He ain't someone else. You are ONE.

 

[nysister]

UPS came today
I got a knife
saw it was from his job
remembered thread
put knife away left box on island

 

[BrickbyBrick]

So when do we find out about this raise. I'm ready to pop bottles and celebrate!

He said sometime this month.

 

[PretteePlease]

then this man told his kid to open it
it was his 10yr clock

 

[nysister]

then this man told his kid to open it
it was his 10yr clock

Now I'm curious. What's that.

See you opened Pandora's box! LOL

 

[Brwnbeauti]

No. I wouldn’t. If he were to receive something like that via mail I wouldn’t want to take away the chance for him to break the news himself or to not discuss disappointment.

 

[Laela]

The federal law, I'm sure, comes in handy for married but separated or unhappily married couples

If my husband is going to report me for opening his mail, we have some real deep issues.

 

[msdeevee]

When I was a kid at home with my parents my father used to open everyone’s mail that came in the box including my Mothers. Remember back in those days there was no texting & emailing. Relatives far away and friends even your job or responders to applications often sent letters. He couldn’t even read that well. Just dang nosy, controlling and bossy. You could get a letter or something and be standing right there when he brought the mail in. He would still open it in your face and read it and then ask you, who , what where and why! His actions made me loathe that behavior.

It was an invasion of privacy and disrespectful to all of us at the time. When I got married I never started opening my husbands mail because of that. He gets many pkgs. I’m a sahw now so I take in all the mail and pkgs but it’s always waiting for him unopened when he gets home. He doesn’t open mine either.

My Niece sends her mail to my house too. It can be waiting for her for weeks unopened. If it looks like she has something important I call her and let her know and she’ll tell me if she wants me to open it.

That’s just my personal experience.

 

[mrselle]

When I was a kid at home with my parents my father used to open everyone’s mail that came in the box including my Mothers. Remember back in those days there was no texting & emailing. Relatives far away and friends even your job or responders to applications often sent letters. He couldn’t even read that well. Just dang nosy, controlling and bossy. You could get a letter or something and be standing right there when he brought the mail in. He would still open it in your face and read it and then ask you, who , what where and why! His actions made me loathe that behavior.

It was an invasion of privacy and disrespectful to all of us at the time. When I got married I never started opening my husbands mail because of that. He gets many pkgs. I’m a sahw now so I take in all the mail and pkgs but it’s always waiting for him unopened when he gets home. He doesn’t open mine either.

My Niece sends her mail to my house too. It can be waiting for her for weeks unopened. If it looks like she has something important I call her and let her know and she’ll tell me if she wants me to open it.

That’s just my personal experience.

This was my experience growing up. My mother would always open my mail. When I was in college, if I came home for the weekend any mail I received would be sitting on my desk, opened. My husband works from home, so he is always receiving packages for work. I never open them unless he asks me to. I open his junk mail because I hate clutter and weeks will go by before he opens it if I don't.

 

[007PMP]

When I was married I didn’t open any of his mail...in fact he was the mail getter, sort, and distributor. He didn’t open any of mine. I didn’t pay not nare bill in our house, so I could care less about what mail came in for him or who it came from...as long as nothing compromised our white picket fence and his ability to maintain it.

 

[Dposh167]

My parents have been married for almost 40 years. They don't open each other's mail. My mom would sort the mail out, but they never opened each other's mail unless someone gave permission

 

[FemmeCreole]

I open anything that looks like bills and checks. I don’t open DH’s packages.

 

[momi]

This goes for anyone in my household - DH included.

 

[PretteePlease]

Now I'm curious. What's that.

See you opened Pandora's box! LOL

10 yrs on the job he got a clock a funky ugly clock. A gift certificate for the entire family to go to dinner would have been more helpful

 

[nysister]

10 yrs on the job he got a clock a funky ugly clock. A gift certificate for the entire family to go to dinner would have been more helpful

Got it. Sorry!!! They really should have sent something more useful.

 

[**SaSSy**]

Don't open other people's mail. I don't care what it's about. Let him do it or ask him first.

I had an ex who got an important government form delivered to my job; I didn't open it. But I knew what it was.

 

[tibb1908]

I wouldn't and I wouldn't want him to open mine. I feel like it allows me to have some personal space but he can look at whatever package I open because it's nothing special.