On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:44:46 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:

> > Go USPS cryptographers! (of course, did some of the bar coding 
> survive?)
> 
> Well, shoot... didn't even think of that.
> Yes -- the whole strip was on the front.
> Well darn...

saved by the machine-code "net"

> > > 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?]
> 
> No need -- the front was fine :)
> I figure it got caught on a roller or something... it was sheered up 
> on the  back side, but the front was fine

how interesting!
Image saved by multi-ply paper....

> > 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!]
> 
> that's just weird...

no, just careless and that her initials are J B while mine are B J so the
mental scanning routine (that work at a glance mindware) just gets
stupid.
And likely her box is next to mine.
Modulo that she's using her maiden name, instead of Jenny Crow -- so the
mail is coming in addressed outside the norm/ready recognition.
I guess.

The neighbor a block away (16919) and we often -- well, once a month? --
exchange missorted mail. 
We think it's a plot to help bind the neighborhood (yeah, right)

> though I had similar things going on with one postal worker doing 
> the mail  here.
> She was always putting the mail for 523 into my box (532)
> turned out it's sorted at the post office, and the carrier just 
> drops it in
> the box -- so she had no idea she was giving me the wrong stuff.
> (don't they look? No time I guess...)

=nodding=
Think of how many pieces they sort....

> but still... I think I'd question "why 2 Martha Stewart Living to the 
> same  place?"

Because they're not looking at what it IS, just a glance at the addy....

=shrug=
somehow, I think we'll survive the experience (and already laugh about
it) tygress


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