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Originally posted by sarettah@Jul 22 2005, 04:17 PM
The courts decided that back in the 60s because one of the favorite scams being pulled back then was for a company to send you something you did not order, give you no means to send it back and then bill you for it and eventually take you to court to pay for something that you did not ever want in the first place.
If I remember right, it was a federal court decision because it had to do with the postal authorities.
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Which means it's LEGAL to keep something sent to you via the USPS that you didn't order.
However, it's ILLEGAL to steal gas which is why these people were arrested and convicted.
It's like bankruptcy - it's WRONG, but it's still LEGAL. What the people did with the gas was both wrong and illegal
