it has all been delivered to my house. The first class mail however....
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Angel 5: Is That It? Am I Done?
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sfmarty - Sep 13, 2004 7:36:02 am PDT #2324 of 3531
Who? moi??
Vortex - Sep 13, 2004 9:14:11 am PDT #2325 of 3531
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
they literally found a tractor trailer full of undelivered first class mail
Quite the contrary, it is the Postal Service that has failed to fulfill its functions. Several incidents demonstrate the Postal Service’s pattern of failure to deliver mail in a consistently timely and secure fashion. Large caches of undelivered mail have repeatedly been found abandoned, burning, stashed in the homes or cars of postmen, hidden in tractor trailer trucks, or simply piled in warehouses. In July 1994, a surprise audit of three D.C.-area postal facilities uncovered more than three million pieces of undelivered mail, most of it stashed in parked Postal Service trailers, some pieces dating to February 1994. A Price Waterhouse study that same month revealed that only 61 percent of Washington, D.C.’s first class mail was being delivered on time.
In October of 1994 postal inspectors arrested a Washington, D.C., postman for stockpiling four truckloads of undelivered mail in his apartment. Workers had to don surgical masks and robes to remove the mail because the efficiency apartment was overrun by a dog, 15 birds, and 43 turtles, and the mail had become saturated by excrement and the putrescent carcasses of more birds and turtles. Less than 1 percent of the 22,800 pieces of stolen mail was deliverable or salvageable.
although I think the second guy had other issues.
Fred Pete - Sep 13, 2004 9:15:20 am PDT #2326 of 3531
Ann, that's a ferret.
43 turtles
To say the least, Vortex!
libkitty - Sep 13, 2004 9:25:59 am PDT #2327 of 3531
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Ewww.
And I always wondered about when a container got swept off a barge or a truck ran off the road. I guess that they had much bigger things to worry about!
sumi - Sep 13, 2004 11:47:16 am PDT #2328 of 3531
Art Crawl!!!
Okay -- UPS says that they need correct Street # location.
Sheesh.
sumi - Sep 13, 2004 11:57:18 am PDT #2329 of 3531
Art Crawl!!!
This is the message:
A CORRECT STREET NUMBER IS NEEDED FOR DELIVERY. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION
Ummm, I've lived here for 8 YEARS. Nothing has changed.
Jessica - Sep 13, 2004 12:19:48 pm PDT #2330 of 3531
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and the putrescent carcasses of more birds and turtles
Oh! Poor turtles!
DCJensen - Sep 13, 2004 12:56:37 pm PDT #2331 of 3531
All is well that ends in pizza.
This is the message:
A CORRECT STREET NUMBER IS NEEDED FOR DELIVERY. UPS IS ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN THIS INFORMATION
Ummm, I've lived here for 8 YEARS. Nothing has changed.
Time to call and behead talk to a human.
sumi - Sep 13, 2004 1:41:09 pm PDT #2332 of 3531
Art Crawl!!!
I did call -- the toll free number and then the local people called me back.
Admittedly the numbering of my building is a little eccentric -- but so are the numbers on the buildings in all of this town.
I explained in great detail where the building was, what it looked like, how on the right hand side of the building it is one number and on the left - another.
So I walk home, and admittedly I don't take a good look at my building everytime I come home - but Hello! The building numbers are on the front of the building extra large on either side of the door.
SailAweigh - Sep 13, 2004 2:48:37 pm PDT #2333 of 3531
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
WhooT! I was actually at home today when UPS brought my DVDs. Whee-ha! Now I can finally watch "Deep Down."