Legal Question in Administrative Law in Virginia

Re: U.S. Postal Code

Oh God! That's a difficult question. I hope others answer as well. But I have a few thoughts: Too often people will give a very stern moralistic answer that says that basically nothing is legal. That goes too far. The truth is in the middle. First of all, let me assure that your chance of getting in ANY kind of trouble for participating in a chain letter is thousands of times smaller than your chance of making a lot of money. The government can't even stop e-mails that are CLEARLY fraudulent without any doubt, such as promising to enlarge people's personal equipment. So nobody is going to give you any problem.

The problem is that these laws are not clear. Could a hard-nosed person who hates chain letters read them in such a way that they are illegal under the postal law? Absolutely. But that requires several assumptions and interpretations to put a chain letter in a certain category in order for it to apply. Could you read the law so that it doesn't go anywhere near that far? Yes.