A Funny Thing Happened With The Post Office!

[anantaandroscoggin]

My wife's recent CPAP supplies shipment left Bedford NH, and spent 5 days in Jamaica NY for some reason (to please DeJoy) before coming along to Greene ME.

 

[Briar Lee]

As a curious fact, one of the best ways to count the number of nations is simply to collect postage stamps.

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There are 192 member countries in the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which includes all United Nations member states, except for four: Andorra, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau.

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The four that don’t have a post office use another nation that does.

I was taught since I was a child the way to gauge the health of a town is to look at their post office and public school.

If either is run down it won’t be long before the town is gone.

 

[BigR]

I've had two different packages that I shipped that arrived at their destination opened and contents gone. I contacted the postal service about it both times to file claims and they wanted proof of value of the contents. I gave them proof of value. They paid me for the items, but wouldn't pay me back the shipping fees. When I asked both times why I didn't get my shipping charges back, they replied, that we delivered the packages, so no refunds on the shipping fees. What a bunch of BS...

 

[carlomarx]

Never, never, never send cash, gift cards, or important documents through the USPS. Or anything time sensitive.
If you do you're rolling the dice.

 

[LeafErikson]

I thought you were gonna say the funny thing that happened was that your USPS package was delivered to the correct place in a timely manner.

 

[telescopes]

The USPS, often maligned and justly so, is the only arm of government capable of reaching most every home in the nation. Packages and mail do get lost. Overnight deliveries often arrive a day late - I’ve learned to use this to my advantage and get the shipping fully refunded when the package arrives a day late. UPS and FedEx have always had similar issues for me as well - so what are you going to do? Track and insure and generally things work out. Not always, but mostly.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

I sent a very dear friend of mine a Warrior Plug along with a religious seasons greeting card in a USPS 2 Day Priority box. Anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of one of my packages knows that they come taped to the max with a very neatly typed label addressed to the recipient. To date I have never lost a package that I have sent someone by Priority Mail until now. It seems that instead of stealing the package the local postman has developed a taste for smoking 'Road Tar' plugs which in essence is what a Warrior Plug is in the final analysis. My friend sent me this picture of what was in his mail box from me! Not satisfied with nicking the plug they also made off with the Hanukkah card as well! I hope this person spends eternity in hell emptying ash trays.

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Incredulous!

Why sabotage the box like this and still deliver it? Just take the whole thing and mark it lost...

Something's afoot.

 

[Steddy]

I’m guessing someone stole the goods from the mailbox.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

My guess is that the box tore in the sorting machinery and the tobacco got lost.
You guys all think very highly of pipe tobaccos and pipes. But, absolutely no one who doesn't smoke a pipe would give a f@ck about a pipe nor pipe tobacco.

The idea that someone stole it, yet delivered or left the empty box just doesn't jibe with human nature. The idea that a postal worker would steal a cheap plug of tobacco, risking his job and livelihood for what most people would think of as a $2 hunk of chaw, doesn't jibe with human behavior also.

Now, some postal worker having a break with reality and throwing a truckload of boxes of a bridge makes more sense to me.