>This situation probably won't now-adays in that the Post Office now has
very strigent sending policies on how to send bulky items, especially items
that bulge in packages. The detectors would look too much like bombs in the
way their shaped. The law officers would look at that package and call out
the BOMB SQUAD and detonate the package right where you sit--hopefully not
in your truck. You still trying to get out away from a ticket, you would
then say "Really Officer, It's not a bomb-I'll show you, and take it out of
the package. The Officer will see what it is(knowing, thats what he stopped
you for) and then write you up for,not only having a detector but also
trying to evade the police, and call up the postal Inspectors for sending
ILLEGAL Contraband through the mail in that STATE. So you see that there are
many senerios that the COPS could use just for having a detector in that
State. How do I know---I've been carrying the U.S. Mail for over 20 years---
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Baltzer <Craig.Baltzer@Anjura.COM>
To: 'dakota-truck@buffnet.net' <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 9:41 PM
Subject: DML: RE: Re: Radar Detectors... Or... How to Beat VA's law...
>With all this discussion about radar detectors in Virginia, I figured it
>
>was time for my subversive, counter-culture, sneaky nature to rear it's
>ugly head and pass along a trick taught to me by truck drivers. (It is
>against federal law to use a radar detector in a tractor-trailer,
>commercial bus, and most other commercial vehicles.
>
>Seeing as how those of us that do use radar detectors have probably
>invested a minimum of $50, more like $100, or if you have a Valentine,
>up to $400, losing one or seeing it smashed is gonna hurt, so here is
>what you do. Buy yourself a big manila envelope, and address it to
>yourself. Put the return address also to yourself, and put a postage
>stamp on it. Keep this handy, the map pockets in the doors work nice in
>
>your Dak... Now, when you get the blue & reds behind you, toss the
>detector in the envelope and seal it. Congratulations, the only one
>other than the recipient who can open US Mail is the Postmaster General,
>
>and I doubt he's going to come out because some Virginia Redneck Patrol
>wants him there. If he does open it, he has committed at least 2
>felonies.
>
>Simple, easy, effective, and truely Civil Disobediance at work.
>
>
>
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