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News & ArtsMonday, May 17, 2010
Crime The Other Way of Going Postal: Tubs of Letters
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Yes, yes, old news by internet standards, but just in case you missed it...
Some 20,000 pieces of mail - many more than a decade old - have been recovered from a postman's garage in the US city of Philadelphia.Going postal takes two forms: one, and the most famous and deadly, is an explosion; the other is an implosion. The latter harms your mail and not (directly) your life.Tubs of undelivered letters were discovered in April when the US Postal Service worker missed several days of work and managers visited his home.
The FBI said it took more than three postal vans to remove the mail, some of which dated back to 1997.
Investigators are still trying to find the postman so they can question him.
..."I got mail today from 2007," Kevin Carpenter told ABC News. "Pay-cheques, things like that that I needed - stuff from the social security administration and the IRS."
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Mom always told me Santa didn't read my letter because I was bad. Maybe he never got it at all!
Santa? Do you hear me? I could use a new rubber suit this Christmas.
Santa? Do you hear me? I could use a new rubber suit this Christmas.
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What? You mean I could have won the Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes and never even known about it?!?
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"Going postal takes two forms: one... famous and deadly... the other is an implosion. The latter harms your mail and not (directly) your life"
Woah! Thanks, never would have figured that one out...
Woah! Thanks, never would have figured that one out...
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George: Let me ask you something. What do you do for a living, Newman?
Newman: I'm a United States postal worker.
George: Aren't those the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody?
Newman: Sometimes...
Jerry: Why *is* that?
Newman: Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's *Publisher's Clearing House* day!!!
Newman: I'm a United States postal worker.
George: Aren't those the guys that always go crazy and come back with a gun and shoot everybody?
Newman: Sometimes...
Jerry: Why *is* that?
Newman: Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's *Publisher's Clearing House* day!!!
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@5-7: Damn straight.
Also the episode where Newman is trying to get the transfer to a district in Hawaii.
Also the episode where Newman is trying to get the transfer to a district in Hawaii.
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