Prohibitory Order

Prohibitory Order

A Prohibitory Order is a legal instrument issued by the United States Postal Service, against a mailer, on request of a recipient. Its effect is to criminalize any further attempt by that particular mailer to contact that particular recipient through the United States Postal Service.cite web |url=http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub307/welcome.htm |title=Publication 307 - Stop Unsolicited Sexually Oriented Advertisements in Your Mail |accessdate=2008-06-05 |publisher=United States Postal Service |date=March 2008 ] In addition, it demands that the mailer delete immediately the names of the particular recipient from all mailing lists owned or controlled by the mailer or his agents or assigns and, further, prohibits the mailer and his agents or assigns from the sale, rental, exchange, or other transaction involving mailing lists bearing the names of the particular recipient. [cite web |url=http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/508.htm#wp1069178 |title=Domestic Mail Manual 508 Recipient Services, §8.1.7 |accessdate=2008-06-05 |publisher=United States Postal Service ] It is requested by filing United States Postal Service [http://www.usps.com/forms/_pdf/ps1500.pdf Form 1500] , either with a local Postmaster, or directly with the Prohibitory Order Processing Center.

Historically, the Prohibitory Order was devised as a means of protecting freedom of speech, while recognizing the rights of individual recipients not to receive advertisements they deem to be pornographic or otherwise offensive, and the absolute and unreviewable right of the recipient of a mailpiece to determine whether or not it is offensive. A prohibitory order against a specific mailer, although the language of the application form implies that explicit sexual content is the only basis for finding a mailpiece offensive, has been extended by case law to allow the recipient to declare any mailpiece obscene, for any reason whatsoever, with no requirement to state the reason(s) for taking offense. [cite court |litigants=Rowan v. United States Post Office Department |vol=397 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=728 |court=Supreme Court of the United States |date=1970-05-04 |url=http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0397_0728_ZS.html ] The only absolute requirement is that it must be possible to construe the mailpiece as an offer to sell goods or services. Various rulings have upheld the Supreme Court decision that the postal customer's discretion is not subject to review. [cite web |url=http://www.usps.com/judicial/2004deci/03-393id.htm |title=Ritchie Hallanan Real Estate, Ltd. v. United States Postal Service |accessdate=2008-06-05 |publisher=United States Postal Service |date=2004-05-18 ]

In addition, recipients may use Form 1500 to apply for a general prohibitory order, covering any mailpiece that may be deemed offensive on the basis of explicit sexual content.

References

External links

[http://www.usps.com/forms/_pdf/ps1500.pdf United States Postal Service Form 1500] , "Application for Listing and/or Prohibitory Order"


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