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And it'll be the most subtle, unassuming envelope too. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If there was a way to highlight official government mail, spam mailers would use it to fool people into thinking it's something important. I get tons of spam that looks like something official.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    We have specially coloured envelopes for government mail in the Netherlands, I've never gotten any spam trying to imitate them (and we do accept spam mail, we could also put a sticker on the mailbox to reject it, but my partner likes them).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Sounds like it would be really easy to put those people in jail for federal offense, yeah? Also if we can print unique, hard-to-duplicate cash, we could do the same for envelope accents, right?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    @Semi_Hemi_Demigod They have a few things such as a return address to a government building on the envelope along with the envelope actually being a certain type that I haven't seen with any other mail.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sorry, I meant that if such a policy were implemented in the USA it would be abused by spammers. There would be a Supreme Court case where the spammers win because they used a slightly different color and it would suck.

    We're a young democracy and not very good at it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It already is. Spammers use the tear-off style envelopes used for your checks or tax returns and many other 'secure' mail. The Republican party near me sent out mailers that looked like traffic bills saying how you may have to turn in your firearms (they were pretending it was from the local Democratic party). It's already fucked here.

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