property new-zealand
What legal action can be taken to stop someone placing rubbish in my mailbox?
<p>Over the last week I noted twice that somehow a tuft of hay appeared in my mailbox at the rural property I am living in. It could be kids, or perhaps someone wanting to play or to leave me a message with meaning I have no idea of yet.</p>

<p>I have setup a surveillance camera registering any movements near the mailbox and so I should know who is doing it next time they do. But once I know whodoneit, what next, apart from trying to talk to them? Can placing rubbish in mailbox be qualified as an offence and prosecuted?</p>

<p>The jurisdiction is New Zealand, but it would be interesting to know this for the other Five Eyes alliance countries as well (US, UK, CA, AU).</p>

<p>It would appear to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespass_to_land" rel="nofollow noreferrer">trespass to land</a> (since the mailbox is a fixture on the land) and is <em>actionable per se</em> i.e. you do not have to prove that damage was done.</p>
