rainlily asks ".... does the postal service have the right...". This is the central issue to be considered. At some point the property of rainlily becomes street right-of-way. Since the authority over the land changes at that point it is important to know whether the proposed new location for the boxes is on rainlily or street right-of-way. A governmental entity or any private person does not have authority to enter fee simple owned land to construct anything. They may aquire a right such as an easement through negotiation with the owner. In the case of government, the power of eminient domain may be used to take a right, but the owner is entitled to be compensated for the taking. The post office may tell people to place their mail box on your land and they won't receive mail if they don't. This does not confer a right to enter your land and do so. It is a well established principle of law that one may not convey a right in land that one does not have. Where the post office has no right, they may not convey a non-existing right to others. If the proposed location for the boxes is on street right-of-way, things get a bit more murky. It is common for the right-of-way to extend some distance beyond the driving surface of the roadway. In most cases mailboxes are located on this strip of right-of-way. The authority over road right-of -ways differs depending on the how the public acquired the right to use. In rare instances the strip for the road was purchased outright and the government is the fee simple owner. Adjoining land owners have no authority over the street whatsoever. The government may permit or do anything they choose. There are two more common ways that the public acquires an interest in a roadway. First, where the public makes use of ones property for a long period of time as a road, the owner loses the right to object to such use and a perscriptive easement for the road is established. Here the roadway exists under the principle of estoppel. From findlaw.com .... equitable estoppel: an estoppel that prevents a person from adopting a new position that contradicts a previous position maintained by words, silence, or actions when allowing the new position to be adopted would unfairly harm another person who has relied on the previous position to his or her loss estoppel by silence: an estoppel preventing a person from making an assertion to another's disadvantage when the person previously had the opportunity and duty to speak but failed to do so A landowner who stands silent as a roadway or utilities are constructed is thereafter bound to that silence. But this does not divest one of the ownership of the land the road occupies and the owner retains a right to object to any new use or expansion of an existing use. Where mailboxes have not been allowed in the past, a landowner may object to them, even though they be within the roadway. A second common method for the creation of a roadway is that of a formal dedication. Here the landowner, wishing to have a public access along or through his property, conveys a portion to public use. Such a dedication must be in writing. It may be in the form of an easement deed, or may be shown on a recorded plat. A street dedication does not divest a landowner of his ownership, but grants to the public an easement for the uses associated with roadways. When an owner conveys property adjoining a roadway, he also conveys any retained intrest in the roadway though the deed not mention it. Your deed and survey may stop at the right-of way, but your ownership continues into the road to the extent that any predesessor in title held. In most states a street dedication will encompass a driving surface and utilities such as water, sewer, and telephone. Whether courts view postal service in the same light as a utility common to roadways may differ from state to state. Here it is imposible to say if the postal service has the power to authorize a mailbox on the righr-of-way in front of your property without a study of the case law of the particular state.

i've no doubt that people get sick from some form or other of e-coli or related pathogens the chat is not about that realy, and as i indicated doctors given half a hint by the patient lock into something to make their job easier, people who get sick are very rarely if ever fully tested to find out how they actually got infected. and as there is so little humanure used in our western gardens it is never going to be the cause of any illness, as we have found from using it, recycling all your rottable and human waste makes environmental sense, just pushing a button and letting some other body of people look after your personal waste is not at all responsible mangement of your waste, and i'm not talking about people who are in situations where they can't consider this, that is another story. good mangement of pesonal wastes should be promoted, ok if? and it is a big if? someone has hard evidence of someone suffering fataly and it is with absolute cetainty what caused that then we need to look at what went wrong and where it went wrong before we critisise the process. no one can make anything foolproof, i have said before the fool will circumvent any safety measures. look at your mowers with all the safety features especially the one where you shouln't be able to reach under the mower when it is running ie.,. long handles, dead mans grip lever the second you let it go the engine stops rapidly employing an electro magnetic brake. yet people are still injuring their fingers and toes, how? don't ask me, i'm no fool, but do we see fear hype about the dangers of mowers? when there is going to be clear iriffutable evidence. how do we set things up to beat the fool we can't, it all comes back to common sense, i've used a mower all my adult life haven't never come close to injuring myself, oh! don't take this anywhere please but over here our mowers don't have mcuh if any of those um! safety features, why? you tell me, i make no judgement. len

Tom....As long as a plant species is not considered invasive or potentially invasive, there should be no problem shipping seeds. Some states have stringent requirements and ban certain species/genera/families of plants, because their climate would permit a rather tame plant in other climates to become invasive. Those are the West coast states, plus in many cases, AZ,UT & NV. FL & HI also ban the import of many plants. I don't believe Arisaema triphyllum or any of it's sub-species (Jack-in-the-Pulpit) is considered invasive, however they do appear on the list of poisonous plants in a couple of states. I suppose the post that was deleted from this Forum was because it should have been posted on the Seed Exchange Forum. There are specific guidelines on Exchange Forums that everyone should read before entering into a trade agreement. Do you know which sub-species of Arisaema triphyllum you have? There are 3 that are native to NWPA, ssp.pusillum, ssp.stewardsonii and the autonymn, ssp. triphyllum(the most common type, almost everywhere). Post them on the Seed Exchange and list your wants. I'm sure there will be willing traders! Good luck :-) Rb

@Laura Holland Thanks so much for the update. I am very glad you found someone to do a post-catalyzed conversion varnish on your cabinetry. That's the standard for finish longevity. How utterly horrible that the contractors have already messed it up. Yes, repairs are very difficult with the 2-part coatings. They absolutely should have been much more cautious. It's somewhat hard to mar a 2-part finish, so they must have been really careless. It sounds like you may have gotten the satin finish of the INSL-X. I have heard the semi-gloss is significantly more durable. If you do have it re-done, I wouldn't go with any Benjamin Moore products again. Find someone who can do Milesi, Renner, or ICA-Ilva. All three of those would be superior, but they may need to be sprayed as most formulations from those companies dry fast, and the 2-part formulas provide the most hardness and chemical resistance. Many people have reported finish failures with Advance even with a Stix Primer. INSL-X is a step above Advance based on my research. In fact, INSL-X is actually made by the same people who make Stix. Benjamin Moore bought the company.