Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:17:23 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Amtrak Security ? Yeah, right.
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>Of course, you could also have mailed them to
>yourself.  The media mail rate (book rate) is very
>reasonable.
>
>--cathy
>USPS employee (speaking in an unofficial capacity of
>course but still trying to drum up revenue in the
>interest of job security)

Free was better.
Amtrak is faster.
I didn't feel like lugging the suitcase out of Penn station, across 8th =
Ave to the Main P.O., then up their marble steps.  I was tired . . . and =
just a wee bit cranky.

mjw
Who thinks $0.34 to deliver a letter is a deal, 'cause I wouldn't do it =
for so little.

>--- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>> So . . .a few weeks ago I was in NYC.  Bought some
>> books and decided to =
>> send them to Baltimore ahead of me.  Packed 'em up
>> in my suitcase, lugged =
>> it over to Penn Station to Checked Baggage and was
>> told that only =
>> passengers with reserved seating tickets could check
>> baggage through to =
>> their destination.
>>
>> Peons like me, with a non reserved seating ticket,
>> could leave the =
>> suitcase at Checked Baggage to pick up later - for a
>> small fee of $4.50.  =
>> (I'm sooooo glad they didn't say "convenience fee"
>> . . . )
>>
>> So . . . how many "security" holes can *you* poke in
>> this.
>>
>> Y'now, I wouldn't mind most of the security hassles
>> if they actually =
>> accomplished anything - other than aggravation.
>>
>> mjw
>> I got your $4.50 right here buddy . . .
>>
>
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