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> Nonpoisonous Insects So it's legal to just, say, mail a bunch of stink bugs and roaches and fruitflies to businesses that send you junk mail or <insert busin
by dheera 5y ago
> Nonpoisonous Insects
So it's legal to just, say, mail a bunch of stink bugs and roaches and fruitflies to businesses that send you junk mail or <insert business you hate>?
- djrogers 5y ago> fruitflies careful with that one - there are interstate restrictions on transporting insects that are unrelated to the USPS.
- reaperducer 5y agoMy parents would mail order bricks of sleeping ladybugs. Put one in the garden and when they thaw out, they eat all the bad insects. I always thought about putting one in someone's locker in high school, but never did it.
- ryanianian 5y agoYou can also do this with praying mantises, but they come as an egg nest. Put them under some leaves and a week or two later baby mantises everywhere eating all the bad things. After a couple months there's always a few big ones that stick around. Surprisingly intelligent and curious little things.
- kube-system 5y agoJust because postal regulations permit them to be mailed does not preclude other reasons why that action might be illegal or expose you to legal liability. There are lots of actions that are legal in isolation that become illegal when you do them to other people, particularly when done with malice.
- dheera 5y agoTheir spam mail and abuse of customers is malice.
- kube-system 5y agoWho is they? ... abuse of customers?
- dheera 5y agoDigging up my residential address or sharing it with other businesses for any purpose other than to render services (e.g. to send a package that I ordered, you might need to share it with FedEx) is harrassment IMO.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoThere's no pre-existing market for "a bunch of stink bugs", however ladybugs are useful for non-toxic pest control (they'll eat aphids), so they can be ordered via mail.