Maybe. She's overweight and the book is another one on metabolic typing. ;-)
On 02/07/2013 05:01 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > Maybe your carrier is reading your books first. > > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:49 PM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS? > > > > > I pay most of my bills via snail mail but some of the banks and my > credit union have added another option other than autopay. I can now > just pay my credit union credit card via transfer so saves the cost of a > stamp. Same with my rarely used credit card from a bank that I have a > petty cash checking account. So another stamp saved. > > Over a week ago I bought a used book via Amazon for $1. The shipping > and handling from the book store was $4. Fine but the book store was > only up in Washington state (I thought I had selected a California store > but maybe they had a store in California but no longer). Anyway the > order went out the following day. It arrived at the post office > yesterday and tracking said "out for delivery". As of today it still > has not shown so I will call the PO and ask what is up with that. > > Two years ago I won a book and it too never showed up so they sent > another copy. The book fit fine through my mail slot so I doubt if the > first copy was swiped from my doorstep as there was no need to leave it > there. I also doubt that yesterday the book was left at my doorstep > because I went for a short walk and actually ran into the carrier. I > should have asked if she had the book and instructed her to just push it > through the slot. My bet with the book and maybe the one two years ago > it was miss delivered to another address. You may have noticed that > those post office boxes you can't put a package weighing over a certain > amount in them which would preclude books. Hence someone getting my > book might not know what to do with it because they would need to return > it to the PO. They should be able to call the PO and have them pick it > up. Bet they won't do that. > > My neighbor said she got a Christmas card for another address completely > out of this area of the town. She was able to correct the address as > apparently it was a little unreadable by looking up the person in a > directory. When she asked the carrier why it was delivered to her house > the carrier said "I didn't know what to do with it." That's what we > have for postal carriers these days. > > On 02/07/2013 07:45 AM, Share Long wrote: >> I wonder if there are other Boomers like me who like to pay their bills via >> snail mail. I never liked the idea of online banking and I liked it even >> less after my credit cards and SS# were compromised last year. I know >> online banking is inevitable. Just putting it off as long as possible. >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Richard J. Williams mailto:richard%40rwilliams.us> >> To: mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2013 8:51 AM >> Subject: [FairfieldLife] The next logical step - USPS? >> >> >> >> "The USPS owns eleventy-billion trucks and employs >> eleventy-billion union workers, all to deliver a >> product nobody wants." >> >> Posted by Stephen Green: >> http://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2013/02/06/only-one-michael-moore-was-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-column/ >> >> >> > >
