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Two stories from my days in the Postal Service.
Among my duties as an audtor was, if there weren't any other reason to go see them during the course of the year, to visit each post offive for an ecvaluation that was part of the postmaster's annual performance review. I was in a fairly large office one day, which would suggest the postmaster should have been experienced enough to know better than to let it happen, when two brown trucks backed up to the post office loading dock and started swapping out parcels between them. I asked what was up. The postmaster allowed as how they did it everyday, and had for long before she had become postmaster. I took a trip out into the cold to explain to the brownies that if their company needed dock or terminal services they could arrange and pay for them. One of them new he was caught. The other got mouthy. I asked if he thought they could back into a FedEx dock to do the same thing. He ventured that there wasn't a FedEx dock nearby, and that the post office was public property, so they could do whatever they wanted. On the first point, his partner tried to shut him up. On the second, he got a brief but thorough re-education.
On another post, the one about UPS parels being delivered to ad for the post office . . . aaaaarrrgghh! At another point in time I was a postmaster. Among the little-known things that the Postal Service does is to be a local source for burial flags for veterans. As you might expect, there is a form that the bereaved sign, documenting the service of the deceased, and requesting the flag. The post office keeps a supply on hand sufficient to be able to supply the flag immediately to the undertaker, which is replenished when the post office forwards the form to the VA. Imagine my surprise the first time I forwarded the from to the VA and a brownie ducked in to deliver the replacement flag. Thereafter, I always clipped a buckslip requesting delivery of the flag(s) by mail, always including a postage-paid address label for the package. Never had any luck.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family’s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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