My Stepfather was a postmaster in my small hometown in South Dakota. In
a small community we used to have folks come back from a trip come to
our house in the evenings and ask him to open up the post office so they
could get their mail--guess the next morning wouldn't wait. A neighbor
ordered bees and they came by PO; the box was broken and yes the bees
got out. Once a load of baby chicks was forgotten by the Rural Route
carrier on a Saturday, so he loaded them up in his car and delivered
them. Back when the mail came by train, the Milwaukee branchline
combine and a couple of tank cars derailed. The combine went on it's
side and all the mail got soaked with spilt cream that shared the
baggage area. The mail was pretty stinky!
Andy Malette with MLW will tell you a good story about taking a
locomotive through customs twice and US/Canadian POs. Those government
entities turned a very nicely built locomotive into a kit again.
Bob Werre
william cole wrote:
> wow, claims stories are interesting...used to ship liquid dye in
> cartons better than the dictated UPS specifications (they are located
> in the front of their service guide, which we read every year as they
> like to change the rules each year. there were 4 one gallon jugs of
> concentrated food dye per carton, "do not crush", "do not freeze", and
> "fragile" written in red marker on all 6 sides of the cartons. drivers
> would probably jump on them and the interior of the truck, all the
> packages in the truck and the driver would be green for a few
> weeks!!!! -- idiots!
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