Stealing from USPS

[HYHYBT]

According to the USPS, those free Priority/Express boxes are only ever supposed to be used for their appropriate USPS mail service, and nothing else. It doesn't matter if it's the first time passing through the system or the 20th, it still belongs to them, and you're not allowed to do anything else with them.

Legally speaking, that is. I don't know that anyone actually gives a damn if you take the Flat Rate box that your Great Aunt Lucy sent you that Fruitcake in and use it to hold your Hot Wheels Car track pieces.

That's good to know. Is it OK to use an old one if I'm shipping it through the post office, or do I still have to waste a new box?

[Nekojin]

By all means, reuse the old ones. USPS code dictates that's the only use they can be put to, and that carries the weight of law. By the strictest reading, ANY other use, including recycling, is a federal crime. =>_<=