On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:50:04 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:
> Just today I got a postcard, and I can see why it took so long to 
> reach
> me... it appears they (the prairie dogs, not the postal workers, 
> though
> that's always an option) gnawed on it and destroyed most the 
> address.

It's probably Prairie Dog envy.

> Looking at the card I can see why they might not want it out...
> There's a cowboy saddled up on a prairie dog roughly the same size 
> as a
> Clydesdale. Obviously those of us outside Texas were not meant to 
> know about
> their enhanced breeding program, but what they fail to understand is 
> that  I'm *rooting* for the prairie dogs...

=g=
And it was sent before all your Prairie Dog rah-rahing....

> In any case, say what you will about our largely incompetent (but 
> all the
> more dangerous for it) government... the post office appears to be 
> working
> hard to do its job.
> 
> The postcard had, as mentioned, been chewed by secret prairie dog
> operatives, and as a result, the only address visable was:
> 
> Kathy W
> 6951 W I
> Littleton
> 
> and they managed to find me on Ida Dr. in apt 532 in Colorado... in 
> only 12
> days from when the card was ostensibly mailed (I believe on the 5th 
> of the stamp is trustworthy)

Go USPS cryptographers! (of course, did some of the bar coding survive?)

> Well done.

well, I was cruising by the rack in the grocery store.....
> 
> (and very cute card :)

With, clearly, a tale to tell. [Should I send you an unconsumed version?]

And sounds far more interesting than why our mail sorter has CONSISTENTLY
given me my NEIGHBOR'S Martha Stewart Living ON THE SAME DAY I get my
own. I realize I read in stereo, but, really! [Even wrote a note on
precisely that point, but, apparently, to no avail. Ah well!]

Later days! tygress 


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