Subject: [WSFA] Re: Bungalow Fourth?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 22:05:52 -0400

  7/2/21 9:59 PM, Tamar Lindsay wrote:
> Years ago in New Jersey, a friend of mine moved to a new apartment in North=
>   Jersey. His mail kept getting sent back 'unknown' despite his name being o=
> n the mailbox and door and his rent being paid. He finally went to the post=
>   office and they said he had to REGISTER WITH THE POST OFFICE to get his ma=
> il. That was not any law or ordinance, that was the jerk in charge acting l=
> ike he was from Spain or Germany or somewhere they do that kind of thing.
>
> I also have had post office people who were normally decent go mildly weird=
>   and deny me mail. I mean, weird as in, I got a physical card saying I had =
> a package, being denied on the ground that it wasn't a post office card, it=
>   had to be UPS. But it said right on it, that it was post office.=C2=A0 I w=
> aited a month and tried again and they accepted the card, no problem, and I=
>   got my package (it was soap by the way; I kind of wish it had been fresh f=
> ish).
> The weirdest part: it was the _same guy_ behind the counter.
> I think they have a secret rule, that once a year they get to go crazy and =
> do something mean.
>
No, every so often, you run into an asshole. There was one (just one) at
the post office I used, living in Chicago.

Some people are just assholes.

mark