Re: Postal Service Horror Stories

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From: Daniel S. Katz
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 00:26

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In article <archie.775338340@qin.cs.berkeley.edu>,
Archie Cobbs <archie@qin.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>A friend of mine is writing an article about the U.S. Postal Service
>and would like to hear any horror stories people may have!!
>I'm sure there's plenty out there...
>
>Please email to TomSpencer@aol.com, or you can email to me and I'll forward.
>
>Thanks!
>-Archie
>

In Chicago, which may have the worst mail service in the US, I mailed
a rent check to my landlords, 6 blocks from my apartment.  It took
3 1/2 months to go those 6 blocks.  Ok, the other 22 checks I mailed
all took far less time, but this is my horror story.

Dan
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Daniel S. Katz                              Cray Research, Inc.
(818)354-7359                          Computational Electromagnetics
dsk@cray.com or d.katz@ieee.org       Parallel Applications Technology

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From: dsk@crayfish.jpl.nasa.gov (Daniel S. Katz)
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Date: 27 Jul 1994 17:26:53 -0700
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