Sometimes I just have to shake my head

"George D" wrote in message
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Mr. Jaggers wrote:
I have commented on this phenomenon before, as it applied to coin
shipments that have gone astray on their way to me. I received a letter
(not coin-related, thank goodness!), originally sent from a post office
15 miles away, on 10-17-07, but which arrived only today, stamped with an
explanation in bright red of where it has been all this time:

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...sedlyEmpty.jpg

I'm trying to understand how this can happen, but fail every time I try.
This was not mailed in an outdoor mailbox, or even in a slot somewhere,
but carried to the post office in a company's mail crate. Doesn't anyone
ever look at this "equipment" to verify that it is indeed empty? I mean,
for a period of over four months it escaped detection?

James

I was in the mailing business for most of my life and have found that mail
you speak of.

Mail is transported from place to place in bags, trays, boxes, and tubs.
when the postal people empty this "equipment" sometimes things just don't
fall out. They get in a hurry and don't look in the bottom of the bag. The
old gray plastic trays had a space of about 1" between the bottom of one
tray and the top of the bottom of the tray under it. a nice hiddy hole for
mail that was in trays that were not full.

One May I found one of these trays that never got to the canceling machine
from the return addresses I could tell they were mailed in Albuquerque, I
live in Phoenix. Guess what tax returns. I requested that the mail get the
proper endorsement but who knows.

Yes it does happen and often enough that the stamps are used every day in
a large post office.

Thanks, George, for the view from "inside." This is the fourth so-stamped
piece of mail I've received, one of which was even registered and arrived 45
days after mailing. Now, that really freaked me out.

James

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080303/D8V68Q1G0.html

Along those lines.........
mk





"Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote in message
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I have commented on this phenomenon before, as it applied to coin shipments
that have gone astray on their way to me. I received a letter (not
coin-related, thank goodness!), originally sent from a post office 15 miles
away, on 10-17-07, but which arrived only today, stamped with an
explanation in bright red of where it has been all this time:

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/f...sedlyEmpty.jpg

I'm trying to understand how this can happen, but fail every time I try.
This was not mailed in an outdoor mailbox, or even in a slot somewhere,
but carried to the post office in a company's mail crate. Doesn't anyone
ever look at this "equipment" to verify that it is indeed empty? I mean,
for a period of over four months it escaped detection?

James