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Polly please don't blow up the post office with all that precious fabric before I get the paperwork back on my house from the mortgage company.

BOOM!!!!!!!

(giggle)

Kate T. South Mississippi

I handed the package to my DH and asked him if it felt like an explosive or even an aerosol can. Automatic weapon? Sharp edge? Our youngest sister must interview prospective employees who think smoking a joint and drinking a 6 pack are prerequisites to employment; our grocer manager goes every Monday morning to bail his staff out of jail. It isn't easy to be in charge. Some days, it isn't even possible. How sweet it is to be out of that. I will be quiet and very still until your mortgage papers arrive. Please do let me know when the coast is clear. Polly

Do I need to haul the Bail Fund jar out from under the porch? ~sigh~

Val

Maybe just working a little while at the post office tends to make people strange. OTOH, maybe they were just brought up to beware the power of goodness. All those angels flying alongside the plane could constitute a flight hazard. Roberta in D, who really enjoys using the Danish driver's license as ID when picking up packages

"Polly Esther" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net...

Unbelievable...the PO actions are never ending surprise. Just when your safe, they prove you aren't.

I cannot imagine sewing those tiny, tiny outfits. You are an angel.

I use to make quilts and teddy bears for a police department to give to abused children. Good Bears of the World was the group that handed out the teddy bears. It was heartbreaking and heartwarming to hear the stories from the policemen. They really enjoyed having something to give these children. Never ending need for people to help out there....

Peace,

Marsha in nw, OH

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:16:10 -0500, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):

I'm shaking in my shoes at the thought of dangerous yellow shirts on airlines.

Maureen

Naaaaaah, Val. I will be very well-behaved at the post office. Our post mistress is a Champion at stuffing boxes and envelopes for me. Got to love her. Polly

"Val"

Playing cards when being of the wrong ethnicity could mean you die in jail.

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Somewhere in the system, I suspect that there's an inspector who wakes up every now and then, slaps a sticker on whatever package is coming by and returns to his nap. Polly

"Roberta Zollner" Maybe just working a little while at the post office tends to make people

I had a package returned to me because packages over a certain weight need to be presented in person unless you pay for the postage online. Mine also contained fabric.

L>Chances are, it was bumped when it hit the airlines, not the post office. >

Linda PATCHogue, NY

I can totally visualize that. Love it!

??? So how would paying online solve any of that? I wanted to get some prepaid flat rate envelopes to forward mail easily, but was told it would have to be taken to the post office in person. So it didn't save my neighbor any time at all.

Two thoughts, Kathyl. (wonder if I can do two?) Here we go - Recently I got one of those 'post office' flat rate envelopes and a stamp that covers the fee at the post office so I could fill the envelope at home and put it in our own mail box. I don't remember that they had a problem with it except for the caution to be sure and weigh it ...or something like that. The other thought - if you do postage online, the post office is going to have access to your credit card. Right? If there's a massive mistake, how on earth would you go about resolving it? I almost tried it but just couldn't bring my cautious self to do it. There. I did two thoughts. I scare myself sometimes. Polly

Good for you! Two thoughts! I'm still working on a second one for the day. Maybe later......

I used to work for the P O and the protocol for such pkgs were to place them in the hands of a postal worker....clerk or carrier....however there are exceptions and online postage was one of them....because there will be info that can be taken from the postage on the pkg should there be a problem. In some larger P O's there are kiosks that allow you to mail your pkg using a credit card/debit card and placing it in the existing box attached.

Does this help??? Launie, in Oregon

Wondering, aloud, if having washed said fabric first would have made any difference. I didn't surmise either way from Polly's post. Was there a sizing, spray starch, or fabric softener used? Wondering again, just where the chemical reading came from? Maybe I didn't get all the posts Once Again...Norm for this territory.

I used to work for the P O and the protocol for such pkgs were to place them in the hands of a postal worker....clerk or carrier....however there are exceptions and online postage was one of them....because there will be info that can be taken from the postage on the pkg should there be a problem. In some larger P O's there are kiosks that allow you to mail your pkg using a credit card/debit card and placing it in the existing box attached.

Does this help??? Launie, in Oregon

I set off all sorts of alarms in the Denver airport once after visiting my niece and her husband on their wheat farm. There were, of course, traces of farm chemicals which I picked up on my shoes while outside with the dogs. Everything but my shoes tested completely clean, and it was great that one of the airport screeners not only grew up in the tiny town near the farm but also knew the family and had heard that the son had married a girl from the Midwest. It was just happenstance that my suitcase didn't pick up any trace chemicals, but we took the car to the airport rather than the pickup, and never put the suitcase on the ground. I understand that airport security has to be thorough, and only once had an issue with them -- at LA, in my purse I had some jewelry tucked into the bottom of my large purse, and the x-ray picked it up, of course. The screener looked into the bag, picked up the sack of jewelry, and opened it to see that it was just jewelry. So far so good. However, he wanted to spread it all out and look at it piece by piece, and planned to do that in front of everybody! I told him that would be fine, but not in public, and that it should only be in a side area so that not every potential mugger would know who to follow. He refused, as did I, and I demanded to speak to a supervisor, who was nearby. The supervisor looked into my purse, saw the jewelry, and told the screener that jewelry cases are NEVER to be opened and examined in detail except in a private area, which is protection for the traveler. Sheesh! And since there had obviously been an issue about jewelry, the supervisor assigned a gentleman to escort me to the gate. Nowdays I simply don't carry jewelry, and wear very little beyond simple earrings and an inexpensive watch, even if I'm traveling to one of those "if you've got it, wear it" places like the QE2. I certainly learned a lesson, and think the screener did, too.

Thanks Launie...

You'd resolve it just like any other credit card issue -- if the seller doesn't take care of it lickity split, you call your card company and dispute the charge. At that spot, the burden of proof is on the seller. Credit cards are much safer than checks these days, as long as you check your statements regularly.