Do you allow your parents open your mail?

United States
June 23, 2009 10:15pm CST
Before I was dependent on my parents financially, I would let them open my mail. Especially credit card statement, and other junk mail. Because they still pay for my expenses. After I got my job, I won't allow them to open my mail anymore. Nonetheless, they are my privacy too. I would like to handle them myself. What about you?
7 responses
@zhuhuifen46 (3483)
• China
25 Jul 09
Although my son left us several years ago, his mails are keeping coming in. I will not open his mails. When I suspect something urgent, say, a road penalty notification, I would call him in to handle the mails.
@hmrk12 (735)
• India
25 Jul 09
If you are trusting them and you don't have anything to hide from them, then you should allow then to open your mail for ever. If you want to maintain your privacy then you should not allow anyone, even if they are your parents,if you relay on them any more.Will you allow me to open your mail if I spend for you..Better try to change the authorization you are giving now before you start earning.If you stop them to open your mail after your earnings, then they will feel of hurt. I will allow them since I started to have mail ids till the date. Now I am earning at my own and still my sisters and brothers will open my mail in addition to my parents. I don't have anything to hide from them .
@moonight (249)
• United States
24 Jun 09
i allow my parents to open my mail, for me there are nothing much to hide. i am okay with them opening credit card statement and etc. if i have mails that i don't want them to see, i will just tell them if you got XX company letter give them to me. and they are fine with me saying that and they wouldn't open it. i don't want my parents to feel like everything is secret, so they can open my mails since i open theirs too such as paying their bills.
@med889 (5941)
24 Jun 09
I do not mind before when my parents especially my mom who is so concerned about me to open my mails. She once open that and placed it on my table to see I was not very angry but I told her to do not do that again because I like to open my own mail. Even now she continues to do so, sometimes I am angry but sometimes I am just to tired to tell her and then I think that she has a right to know also what I am doing. So I let her open it sometimes but when The mails have reached my hands first then she does not get it.
@khayshenz (1384)
• United States
26 Jun 09
My parents were really nice when it comes to my privacy - they never opened my mail or any packages that arrived for me, unless they have my consent. I never asked them to not open it - and they've never asked if they can open any of my mail. EVEN back when I lived in their house and paid for everything (granted they didn't give me a credit card or whatever). They just give my mail to me (if I have any) and if it's important, they let me know. Then I tell them its ok to open - or i'll come right away to pick it up.
• United States
5 Jul 09
It has been many years since this has even been a possible issue. I moved out when I was 15 and my life was my own they had very little to say about any of it. Yet when I was a little older I moved closer home after I had my daughter so they could bond. What was interesting in that it was then when my mom was practically a stranger to me she then would try and go through my mail my things any of it. This was immediately ceased for it was an invasion of my privacy but in my case she was a stranger and after being on my own for so many years one likes there privacy. Now at the moment I have some mail delivered to my sisters this she can open and read but that is due to convenience so i can take my time getting my mail when I find time.
@smartie0317 (1610)
• United States
24 Jun 09
My parents aren't allowed to open my mail. Currently, I am living with my mom and not working. She's not allowed to open my mail. However, when I was high school, I lived in one city with my mom and took a bus to go to the city my dad lived in to go to school. So, give my dad's address to the school and anything addressed to me he had to open incase it had be signed or handed in by a certain date.