[AGL] snooping at the US post office

[Gerry]

Mike,
If I were you I wouldn't be paranoid about it. He has probably been putting
mail in your box since 1959 and knows you and hundreds of others whose boxes
he services.

There are about 300 boxes at our PO and Virginia, the Post Mistress, knows
which face connects to which box. If one of us wants to send Christmas cards
or party invites to locals all we have to do is put the name and a stamp on
the envelope and she will put them in the proper box. There are some smart
people working in the great PO community (which still works amazingly well
in most places in spite of occasional foul-ups).

Tomorrow morning I depart for the Bay Area. Will spend a couple of weeks
there with old friends and my daughters. Please disconnect my pairlist
connection until I return, say January 4th. Thanks and a very happy holiday
to you and all the correspondents in our little virtual community.
G


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: [AGL] snooping at the US post office



> I have had a p o box since 1959. Usually the

> annual invoice is put in your box the first week

> of December. Yesterday the invoice not having

> arrived and in view of the fact that one time in

> the early 60s, my p o box was shut down for

> a week on Jan 1 until i discovered it confronted

> them with my receipt for having paid for it and they reopened it,

presumably

> merely through sloppy bookkeeping, I went in to inquire.

>

> A seedy looking guy behind the dutch door where

> one can pick up packages in the AM, when asked

> about the invoices, looked at me and said 2672?

> I was amazed but said nothing. He said he would inquire about the

invoices.

>

> This morning there was a handwritten note in my

> p o box: "Rent notice go out on the 20th."

>

> Aside him knowing my face, name, p o box, and

> who i get mail from, one can speculate also on the fed cops having gotten

> behind in snooping on who has p o boxes so the invoices are going out

late.

>

> Maybe it is just a game to the seedy gent, memorizing

> all that he is capable of. For example, i used to keep

> the scores of 4 bowlers playing together in my mind while setting pins at

> the bowling alley out of sheerest boredom.

>

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