Christian school info in the post office

[CitizenBushido]

Hey guys. I was just wondering what is the best way to approach this. I went in to my local post office today and saw 2 big Christian school posters on the msg. board in the post office.
How can I get them down without causing a problem? I live in a very very small town, and don't want to go up there unprepared. Give me some advice...Can religious info be posted in a public post office? What would you do?

Thanks for the advice

[benjdm]

I would think that the posters are legal, as long as anyone can put things up on the message board. What are the requirements for putting posters up on the message board ?

[CitizenBushido]

I don't know I'll have to find out. I was just shocked when I saw it.
I didn't think that you could post religious info in a public building.

[EverLastingGodStopper]

If members of the community are allowed to post community-related info, such as "kittens, free to good home" or "high school play this Friday at 8pm," it's probably ok for a private school to post there, too.

Mod note, let's move this thread from PA&SA to CSS for more discussion on the legality of the posters. I think our CSS experts may agree with me that the posters are probably acceptable on a public community bulletin board.

[Stacey Melissa]

USPS policy is that pretty much anything non-obscene goes on the bulletin boards. I'd have to dig up the exact policy to find out details, though.

I work in a large secured UPSP facility, and they have bulletin boards for employees to post just about anything they want to announce. A lot of times, that includes flyers for religious orgs and events. None of the militantly atheist employees or doctrinare supervisors have ever made any complaints about the religious event posters AFAIK, so I'm guessing there are no CSS rules being broken.

[flintknapper]

Get a black Magic Marker and draw a couple of large swastikas on those posters. I guarantee they will come down.:devil3:

[Worldtraveller]

Stacey Mellissa, you should make up a flyer for our local atheist meetup and put it up at work. :)

Try and do it when no one is around (unless they have some rule against not knowing who puts up a flyer) if you feel there might be repurcussions.

Always good to test the bounds of that xian love. :)

Cheers,
Lane

[EverLastingGodStopper]

Stacey Mellissa, you should make up a flyer for our local atheist meetup and put it up at work. :)
I have a generic flyer that says "Local Atheists Meet-Up" and has little tear-off tabs with the URL http://atheists.meetup.com. I can email it to anyone interested, just let me know.

I've never seen one last more than 2 days when posted.

[Dick Springer]

Since the USPS is the subject here, I, a part-time rural letter carrier for the USPS, will report on my long-running discrimination case against my union, the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, over fundamentalist Christian proselytizing by the national union leadership in the official union publication. The case began in 2002 when the publication said that if Jews wanted to be "the Lord's people" they had to accept Jesus as their savior. The carrier who worked next to me, who is Jewish, filed an anti-discrimination case before the Maine Human Rights Commission. Later I joined the complaint as a "nonbeliever." (I did not use the A-word, atheist.) The Maine Human Rights Commission unanimously supported us. The federal EEOC (under its Seventh DAy Adventist leader) went against the recommendation of its lawyers and refused to back us. Now there is an apparent agreement, which I support, for a legally enforcible contract requiring the union to cease proselytizing in its publications. We had the general support of our co-workers, and I sensed that we had the tacit sympathy of postal officials. We can't be certain yet because no agreement has been signed, but we believe taht we have finally won.

[Oresta]

Bravo to you, Dick and your Jewish colleague!

[Stacey Melissa]

Since the USPS is the subject here, I, a part-time rural letter carrier for the USPS, will report on my long-running discrimination case against my union, the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association, over fundamentalist Christian proselytizing by the national union leadership in the official union publication.
A proselytizing postal carrier union? WTF?

I'm one of the few non-union employees at my location, so I can't say what kind of materials they publish, but I should hope they're not dumb enough to proselytize.