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Re: Symposium Party & Mystery Mailer

If your ‘bulbs’ were from the Netherlands—out of the country,  you may all be experiencing Homeland Security up close and personal. And they don’t have to explain anything. The torn package was probably put back into the mail when it was determined to be ‘safe’. So it’s possible the USPS was not responsible for your loss.

 

Just a theory.

 

Maryann

 

Maryann Whitman

Editor-in-Chief, Wild Ones Journal

www.for-wild.org

 

Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes: promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.

 

 

 

From: gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:gardenwriters-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of KTCopsey@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:54 PM
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [GWL] Symposium Party & Mystery Mailer

 

In a message dated 9/15/2005 7:17:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dcamp@chilitech.net writes:

Just when I thought I had calmed down, this has my blood pressure peaking
again. Nice note, indeed. The USPS is very good at sending nice form-letter
notes. Beyond that their attitude is ... well, this is a family list, but it
involves a short transitive verb and a pronoun predicate.

RANT WARNING! --- RANT WARNING! -- RANT WARNING!

Golly gosh - so sorry to have touched such a sensitive nerve here! Obviously anything to do with governmental black holes is tricky but this thread has piqued the interest as to what was in the package in the first place.

If anyone has an inkling of what is was I am sure we would all like to know.

 

Kate Copsey
Freelance Garden Writer
Herbs, Historic Gardens
Pittsburgh, PA

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