[AGL] snooping at the US post office

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Carolyn,

I suspect I must be a burnt-out case. Did I rant on about the
post office way back then? And television? I didnt have a TV
back then nor did you. I think Bob Charles got one when he
married Susan Goss.And did I not use ZIP codes on my
letters? Alas, all these foibles have fallen into the memory hole.

I learned that the USPS will NOT deliver postcards without
a ZIP code but I believe that they will still deliver first class
mail in envelopes even without a ZIP code. My next
discretionary 39 cents will go towards testing this. I got
a postcard once from Mike Hershey mailed from Cape
Cod addressed to me at the last house on the left on
West Ninth street and it duly arrived. That was back when
the postman read addresses. You are right about the vibes
at the postoffice. I note that they have removed the clock
on the wall behind the counter. Perhaps they learned this
at supermarket summer school. The supermarkets have
also removed clocks so the customer wont realize how
late she is running and will stay and buy more crapola.
Perhaps without the clock, customers will buy more stamps
or get less pissed off about the long slow moving line or
be able to clock how long it is taking.

Best to John,

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <globe at zipcon.net>
To: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 5:22 PM
Subject: [AGL] snooping at the US post office



> MIchael,

>  Do you remember or perhaps you never saw the fabulous 'Rockford 

> Files'shows

> with James Garner which they involved the Us Post Office?.  It was perfect 

> they

> got the whole conscious and unconsious mentality of the US Post Office 

> down pat.

> Hilarious show. If you didn't get a chance to see, take the opportunity. 

> The

> writers were right on the mark with establishment places.  The best show 

> were

> done wien Juanits Barnes was producing ( I think that is her name) she did 

> the

> Perry Mason ones also and it is human scale.  Rockford took on the Korean 

> vets,

> grand juries and some other interesting topics.  Aleasy very funny. When I

> watched the reruns I always think of you and your battles with the PO.  I 

> have

> the same reaction to them, my teeth began to grate. their cosmic aura is

> irritating.  Are you still not using zip codes on your mail?  sorry I 

> can't help

> but giggle at this, no offense.  Bob Charles said that when anyone 

> mentioned

> either television or the Post Office to you ...watch out!!

> happy holidays

>  Carolyn

>

>

>

> "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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