'Shindig'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
the card arrived opened with no money in it.
Obvious card-shaped things are notorious targets for crooked postal workers, unfortunately.
When I did customer support for USPS (AKA hell support), Christmas was a horrific time of year for that. Though it happens a lot other times. Honest postal employees want to smack around those losers.
I'm not going to call and yell at anybody. It doesn't seem worth it. It just kind of sucks and Mom's aggravated.
It just kind of sucks and Mom's aggravated.
Oh, yeah, it's a very sleazy thing to do. But if she wants to send you stuff again, she might want to put it in a regular envelope. Somewhere in your postal connection system is a sleaze.
cereal
You might want to report it anyway, at least to the postmasters on either end. If there are multiple reports, they will pay more attention and check for a bad apple in their offices.
Though it's not always the postal workers... in my grandfather's neighborhood there was a thief who just went up and down the streets checking mailboxes and taking card-shaped envelopes; s/he, whoever it was, knew the neighborhood was populated by lots of older people who had trouble seeing out to the street (and their mailboxes) and weren't mobile enough to jump up and run after someone rifling through their mailbox even if they did see something suspicious. I think the asshole was eventually caught, but just about exactly none of the money was recovered.
Stupid mail thieving bastards.
Owen's been singing about making pies all day and our pie store is closed. Feh. I'm craving PIE.
Luckily my dental insurance will cover 80% of the procedure. I'm not getting this done until the summer though.
askye, I'm glad you're getting this done. And yay for the coverage to pay for most of it!
Though it's not always the postal workers... in my grandfather's neighborhood there was a thief who just went up and down the streets checking mailboxes and taking card-shaped envelopes; s/he, whoever it was, knew the neighborhood was populated by lots of older people who had trouble seeing out to the street (and their mailboxes) and weren't mobile enough to jump up and run after someone rifling through their mailbox even if they did see something suspicious. I think the asshole was eventually caught, but just about exactly none of the money was recovered.
I was home and went to get the mail a couple seconds after I heard it arrive, otherwise I would have suspected my neighbors.
Sean, I hope you can get S's script filled, and that she's feeling better, soon. Gah.
Owen's been singing about making pies all day and our pie store is closed. Feh. I'm craving PIE.
Great. Now I am, too.
Where I used to live I'd sometimes get envelopes that had the corner flap torn up, almost as if someone had peeked inside. After a while I noticed that this was only happening to envelopes that looked as if they contained cards.
That's also the place where I got ungodly late mail delivery. The latest I ever received mail was 8:20 PM.
Sean, my god. ::shakes fist at PTB:: Good luck with the prescription filling, and gentle, hovering-not-touching pats to S's knee.
Owen's been singing about making pies all day and our pie store is closed.
You were totally right about Sara getting the "ninjas steal pie" from The Backyardigans, by the way. I love that episode! The Sherlock Holmes one is my all-time favorite, though.
I have no pie, either, but then I usually want cake. I ate all of ours, though.