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I don't.

I just wish that companies didn't buy the service for delivering unaddressed junk mail to EVERY address on a postman's walk. I've asked our lovely young man to put it straight in the green bin on his way to our door but he says he's not allowed to do that.

Mary

When my husband taught at the U of Brighton one year, he had a lot of books to bring back with him. He boxed them up and took them to the post office there, and sent them "surface mail." They arrived in a week. I would say that's outstanding service! OK, I'll admit that they probably tossed the box into some available space in a plane - no way could that have gotten here that quickly by ship.

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You do realize that the problem is one of the brilliant mind. We have so much information stored that it isn't always right at the surface waiting to be retrieved. Therefore this should be a club of absolutely brilliant people, who sometimes run into the problem of retrieving less than and sometimes more than brilliant information. Juno

That's it!!! Thank you for clarifying the situation. Obviously you are correct. Children have excellent memories because they have so little to remember.

Hahahhaha i love that !!! mirjam

Don`t you have a law against Junk posts in your post box ? mirjam

Oh dang! I was just thinking yesterday that you must have had the second surgery and wondered how it was going. I hope everything works out.

Funny, when they did my first eye, the new lens "folded" when the surgeon slipped it into place. I waited, there on the table, while they procured a second one. Turns out the only one on hand was a special type, so they had to use that for my second implant too.

Good luck!

Beverly

Juno, you hit the nail right on the head! ;-)

ROTFLOL!!! I'll have to make up a nice embroidered wall hanging of that.

Beverly

See, you both already knew that. You just have you brain so filled with brilliance you couldn't retrieve it for a few minutes. Juno

We always knew you were "special" didn't we? ;-)

I woke up with fuzzy vision in the newer one, but I can see the lens (actually now both of them) when I look in the mirror, so I knew it was still in there. My eye was bloodshot, but I had no pain. The instruction sheet says to call ASAP if vision gets worse, if there's blood, or pain. So I called. My doc is off, most likely for the holidays, but will be back Tuesday. Had a chat with a very helpful guy, though, and decided to wait and see. (pun?) The vision is clearing now.

I have a theory -- I slept on that side, and the lens hasn't been in there but two days, and I wonder if it was "floating." Those wings on the lens have to hook themselves in. I see the doc Friday, so I'll know for sure, but right now things are (pun alert) looking up!

My favorite wall motto is "Motherhood means never having to go to the bathroom alone."

The other is "You may write in the dust, but please don't date it."

I'll 'see' your puns and raise you a couple of strabismuses (strabismi?)

That's good news, Joanne, and I espy you must be feeling a bit better to come up with all those vision puns. ;-)

Best,

Beverly

The doc I talked to earlier called me back, and I was glad to tell him that things were looking up. He said he thought I had excess fluid and that it drained, resulting in the improvement. He said he just wanted to keep an eye on it. (Really!!!) We agreed that we like puns.

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Good healing to you ,,, And may the Good Eye keep you safe !!! mirjam

That's "standard mail" and it's our government-owned post office's biggest source of income. They *can't* outlaw it.

At any rate, it's not the mailman's place to decide what's junk and what isn't -- he might throw out my Patternworks catalog.

Joy Beeson

Oops! I said "mailbox" when I meant "post office box" -- the kind where you go to the post office to pick up your mail. Good, as I said, for people who don't have home addresses -- or who don't want packages left on the porch. Also good for organizations that don't have an office -- a bike club I used to belong to has a post office box so that they don't have to send out zillions of change-of-address notices every time they elect a new president.

I sometimes considered getting a post office box when I lived at the next-to-the-last stop on a very long rural route. It wasn't so much that the mail came very late as that I never knew *when* it would come; there was no time after which I could be sure there hadn't been any mail, and no time before which I could carry out a letter and be sure it would go.

We get mailboxes from hardware stores -- the U.S. Postal Service doesn't supply home boxes, but approves those made by commercial firms. I could install a through-the-wall box if I wanted one.

Well, the people across the street could install such a box. Our street has the rural system -- a box at the end of the driveway -- on our side, and the city system -- a box mounted on the wall of your house near the front door -- on the other side. (But the mailman parks her truck and walks both sides of the street.)

The new development at the end of the street has an apartment-house system: The decorative stone wall flanking the end of the private road has a panel of lock-door mailboxes set into it. I presume that there is a single door covering all the boxes on the other side, that the carrier has a key to; there's a paved path around the end of the wall. (Must take a closer look the next time we walk around the block after supper.) I've also seen clusters of rural-type boxes at the entrance to developments. (These don't have locks.) (Well, the catch is drilled for a padlock, but locking it would make it useless for mail. I suppose that some people buy mailboxes to use as miniature garden sheds or something.)

It has always annoyed me that I must buy, install, and maintain my box, but the Post Office feels entitled to forbid me to let anyone but their carriers put anything in it.

Joy Beeson

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Thank you!

LOL!

My greatest objection is non-addressed flyers from e.g. a local supermarket, a carpet sarehouse, several take-aways ...

Is Royal Mail still government owned? It's not the Post Office any more, I can't keep up with all the to-ing and fro-ing :-)

Mary

That must have been some time ago. Standard service is now by air, surface is called 'Economy'.

The silly thing is that all mail from UK to EU countries must go by air. Even between Northern Ireland and the Republic :-) You might even be able to see your correspondent across the (unmarked) border but a birthday card still has to be flown there - and of course the postage is higher.

Mary