7 Responses

1. Many sale contracts include “chometz items in transit” so this item in the mail would be part of the mechiras chometz. The item in the mail does not belong to you just because it is in your mailbox or home.A goy who brings his chometz lunch to your home does not cause you to own it.If you did not pay for it,it isn’t yours.

2. Many chometz sale contracts include “chometz items in transit”. A goy who brings a chometz lunch with him when he comes to your home,may eat it or keep it in your house. An item unsolicited by you and not paid for does not automatically become yours if it is in your mailbox or property.Give the item to a goyish neighbor or throw it in the garbage (outside).

3. This type of “marketing promotion” seems to take place every Pesach, and is not unique to Lakewood.

   I have been “blessed” several times with little boxes of Cheerios and other similar “promotional products” which appear on my front lawn on Pesach.

   I have my psak from my Rav; CYLOR for what you should do.

4. TO 1-2:
   To include Chometz in Transit it first has to be yours and the Chometz in transit that someone else is sending you isn’t yours since you didn’t make a ‘KINYAN’.
   2nd Point: The Halacha Is that Money isn’t a ‘KINYAN’ as far a ‘METALTALIN’ as opposed to real property that can become ‘HALACHACLY’ yours thru money, But on the Contrary one of the Kinyanim that ‘METALTALIN’ can become yours is thru ‘CHATZER’ were the mail box certainly fits the criteria, the only thing is that you don’t want to be Zoche in this Object but then it might depend if ‘CHOTZER IS KONEY MIDIN YAD OR SHLIAH AND IF THE DIN OF EIN CHOVIN LEADAM SHLO BEFANAV’ ask your rabbi

5. the mail company apparently said they will hold them all back until the end of yom tov

6. The psak that I got was to throw it in the street.

   You’re not koneh, don’t bring it into your house

7. how can you sell A DOVER HALO BA LOLAM?