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Skriven 2007-04-23 12:03:40 av Amy Guskin (181.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Volume 11 - Ordered
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>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:16:36 -0400, Kay Shapero wrote
(in article <MPG.2095d30139d16791989872@news.west.earthlink.net>):

> In article <4628cf82$0$14126$235e9798@corp-news.dsltransport.net>, 
> fmlyhntr@sunset.net says...
> 
>> 
>> I ordered mine at about 8p Thursday night (PDT)--I'll be lucky to get it 
>> by Wednesday. I just hope it isn't raining here in sunny California 
>> since the delivery guy won't use the bag I leave out to keep it dry.
>> 
> Failing to find a big enough mailbox, I long ago picked up a roll-top 
> plastic trashcan and used vinyl letters to label it Mail.  The delivery 
> folks caught on before the rainy season, fortunately... but I'm going to 
> have to get some smaller letters to write "please close lid" on the 
> thing, because one.. individual.. picked a rainy day to drop the mail in 
> and forget to close it.  <<

I'm surprised you can even get them -- actual USPS employees -- to use it.  
They're so particular/cranky about such things.  A few years ago, I got tired 
of the mailman rolling up the mail in order to fit in our small, wall-mounted 
mailbox next to the front door.  We nearly _always_ get some oversized mail, 
whether it's magazines, or photographs from my clients (that they need me to 
scan and post on their websites), catalogs, or something else.  So I looked 
around and found a _large_ wall-mounted mailbox, one you could fit 
Manhattan's yellow pages in easily, and replaced the small one with it.  They 
STILL roll up the mail, no matter how little or how much there is.  I think 
it's just the way they do it because most houses have small boxes -- so as 
they're walking, they pull out the mail for the next house, and roll it up.  
But I get really annoyed when my New Yorker is a tube, or something more 
precious (like a photo!) is irreparably curled.

Oh, and rolling things up means that the clump of mail sometimes gets stuck 
towards the top of the box, so the lovely, secure, rainproof closure is 
partially propped open by the roll of mail (which, if inserted flat, would 
certainly be able to have the lid closed above it).  Which completely sucks 
on a rainy day.

I've never said anything because 1) our regular guy has now retired, and we 
don't seem to have any permanent person assigned yet; 2) I'm afraid 
complaints would only make them do worse things to our mail!

Luckily Cafe Press packs these things really well, so when it's sitting 
behind the bushes underneath my mailbox (why?  I don't know), at least I know 
it's protected inside that cardboard sheath.

Amy

Amy
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