Sending pictures in the mail (not email)?

Question

okay i want to send pictures through the mail but i want to send them in a envelope the same size as the pictures (full sheet) so they dont get bent, but i was wondering if the USPIS is going to inspect them the folder and look at them. also i was wondering if i could get in trouble for them(the pictures) the aren't to be viewed by anyone besides my boyfriend and they wont be i trust him in his saying that so please dont waste my time with things like to be careful or they will end up all over the internet or that i am being stupid and shouldnt do it. now if it is illegal to send them through the mail please do share that information with me and give me a source please. those are my two questions (is it illegal and will they check the envelope). if it is it is no problem for me to give them to him in person it just seems like a better surprise to send them in the mail. thnx. oh and if you hadnt got this part yes they are nude pictures. and is it legal to take them, i havent yet.

Answer 1

They won't be inspected, as long as they are not being sent to a military base or the such. Even then they probably won't be inspected.

If you are that scared about it, just send it FedEx or UPS.

It is not illegal to send such pictures unless you are sending them to a kid.

Answer 2

ive done it before nothing happended to me .. just dont  send it to a jail  they do look at everything there .. but other that , youre cool... hope ur man likes the pics!!! ps. they dont read ur mail in the military!

Answer 3

You did not say how old you were or how old your boyfriend was.

As long as you are not a minor and the pictures don't include explicit sexual images that include minors, the pictures may be legal, provided your boyfriend isn't a minor.

It depends upon where you are sending them.  If it is to a foreign country, you may be committing a crime anyway.

Answer 4

What happens when your  boyfriend is no longer your  boyfriend?

Give that some thought.

Answer 5

I would think twice about sending those pictures.  He may want to show them off.

Answer 6

Nothing I would do.  you never know

Answer 7

I suggest you visit the Post Office, and read the rules they have posted, regarding what may and may not be sent by mail ... they have lists like certain chemicals and radiological ... if that not clear, you can ask the postal clerk if you could speak with supervisor or post master there, and ask them.

There is no harm in asking.  Over time the laws evolve.  Some of us may be connected with older rules.

If the pictures are of nude children, and you get caught taking them, getting them developed, having them in your possession, sending them via cell phone, snail mail, e-mail, whatever ... the end of that road is you on the national sexual predator registration.

It makes no difference if the picutres are computer generated not real people, or if the pictures are of you personally.  The illegality has to do with possessing and distributing said pictures.

If the pictures are of YOU in the nude, then you need to find some other way that snail mail services to arrange delivery.  Do not use post office, UPS, FedX, courier, e-mail, Internet.  

Also there is the process by which the photographs get developed.  The old fashioned process is to have a roll of film which you take to some commercial place to have developed and put on pictures of certain sizes.  The developing place includes human behings who see the stuff being developed & they call the police, then when you show up to pick up your developed pictures, the police are waiting to arrest you.

So you need to use a process for developing the pictures that does not involve the film in the hands of some commercial outfit, any outfit not under your direct control.

If you or he are underage, delay implementation until you are an adult.

If the pictures are such that it would be Ok to show anyone in public, suitable for children to see, no one find objectionable, such as a landscape, then you put them in envelope with a sheet of stiff cardboard, label the envelope "do not fold bend" etc. send not by regular mail but pay extra so it does not get folded bended.

Postal regulations include that the post office gets to inspect contents when over some size dimensions bulk etc. due to the threat of terrorism objects in the snail mail.  These regulations are clearly posted on the walls in every Post Office in the land.