Personal Library Hack August 25th, 2008 @ 11:54 am PDT
Here’s a little trick to help you keep your books from getting lost forever. If you’re like me, you get a ton of snail-mail spam, what we used to call “junk mail”. Lots and lots of companies — especially those concerned with getting your money to save the whales, the environment, the lives of endangered […]
Chris O’Brien March 7th, 2005 @ 9:29 am PST
Does anyone have any idea where Chris O’Brien is? The last address I have for him in New Zealand — on Clifford Street — is apparently no longer valid. His Christmas / birthday / New Year’s card was returned however-many thousand miles back to me as “Return to Sender — Not at This Address”.
Postal Service Craziness December 8th, 2000 @ 2:21 pm PST
They knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees? How honest? How sentimental? In short, how eccentric a behavior on the part of the sender would still […]
Form Letter July 23rd, 2000 @ 8:11 pm PDT
From a very poorly-worded letter from an insurance company: Mr. Gagne, your benefits can include: Death … Disability … Unemployment … Knowing the Gagne family will not lose their home no matter what the tragedy er … uh … thanks …
Postcards July 1st, 2000 @ 4:31 pm PDT
FINALLY! Okay, now I just have to get out the duck‘s and I will have postcarded everyone who asked me for snail mail lovin’. I still have a stack of cheeseball postcards here, so … you want one?
postcards May 9th, 2000 @ 6:50 pm PDT
Because deep down I’m a weblog wannabe too, I decided to get rid of this stack of postcards I’ve had next to the computer for months. You’ll have to tell me your address, of course, and there’s only 12 of them, but they are pretty cool. They were, except for one, all snagged from bars […]
