Re: OT: Priority Mail Service (PMS)
- To: Multiple recipients of list <i*@rt66.com>
- Subject: Re: OT: Priority Mail Service (PMS)
- From: l*@juno.com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:45:37 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:47:05 -0600 (MDT) "J. Griffin Crump"
<jgcrump@erols.com> writes:
>Lynn -- Once upon a time, long, long ago, when I was a college
>student,
>I worked for the Post Office during Christmas breaks, sometimes as a
>carrier and sometimes inside as a mail sorter. One season, as a mail
>sorter, I had noticed a particular piece of mail go by on the conveyor
>belt several times and finally end up with the fellow next to me.
>Knitting his brow, he asked anyone within hearing, "Where is
>BA-HA-MAZ,
>INDIANA?" No one answered. I took the envelope from him. It read, in
>longhand, "Bahamas Isles." Does that help to explain the situation?
>
>Griff Crump, along the tidal Potomac near Mount Vernon, VA (midway
>between Indiana and the Bahamas) jgcrump@erols.com
>
Not in this case, because the envelope was addressed using laser-printed
labels for both mailing and return address. The correct address and zip
code were also used, and the mailing address had existed as that address
for at least 25 years.
Your guess is as good as mine for the explanation in this case. I also
had another letter take more than three years to reach me, but the post
office explained that delay - the letter was among those held as evidence
in a case of mail theft!
Lynn Woosley
Marietta, GA
USDA Zone 8
