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Old 05-18-2006, 09:09 PM
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Default Why a certain USPS Person Should be Shot...

Some days, it's just not worth going out to the mailbox. Instead of dropping off any box to my front door, like my usual USPS person does, the "filling in" USPS driver today decided they'd just leave this box ON TOP OF the mailbox, where, in the afternoon winds, it blew off...right into the street. Where there are vehicles. BIG vehicles, at least to fragile paper and balsa...

Inside...well, you can see for yourselves. Two vintage Mini-Brutes. The tubes, rings, and cones were crushed and/or dented by the weight of multiple cars running over them.

I'll salvage what I can, get tubes from the the spare parts box, and pickup replacement cones from one of our great modroc vendors.

It just depresses me that these kits survived 30-odd years, only to be crushed because of someone's "what the hell, it's just a box, who cares what's in it" mentality.
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Old 05-18-2006, 10:24 PM
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That hurts just looking at it. I'd be looking into avenues of recourse within the P.O. if I were you. Idiots like this need to be back slingin' fries.
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Old 05-19-2006, 08:33 AM
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I would demand the post office pay at least the fair market value to you for their idiocy....those kits are now worthless to collectors, and for building.
The only value they now have is in use for measuring parts for a clone.
Just one more reason to add to my list why I always request FedEx or UPS instead of USPS be used when shipping items to me.
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Old 05-19-2006, 09:16 AM
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Well, that just plain sucks.

Regarding the title of this thread - don't go postal, go FedEx.

(Wait 'til next year's Super Bowl - some Madison Avenue type will see this and use it as a slogan in the FedEx commercial. )
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Old 05-20-2006, 09:36 AM
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I thought the USPS carrier is supposed to leave those kind of packages at your doorstep?
At least, I know the carriers that run the route where I live, always leave our packages there
when it's obvious that the said package can't fit into (inside) a patron's mailbox completely
or partially.

I think one of our colleagues in the OldRockets Yahoo server recently got a job at the USPS
over a year ago (can't remember his name right now), maybe if he's a member of this group
and sees this, he can clear this for us as I'd like to know...
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I thought the USPS carrier is supposed to leave those kind of packages at your doorstep?
At least, I know the carriers that run the route where I live, always leave our packages there
when it's obvious that the said package can't fit into (inside) a patron's mailbox completely
or partially.

I think one of our colleagues in the OldRockets Yahoo server recently got a job at the USPS
over a year ago (can't remember his name right now), maybe if he's a member of this group
and sees this, he can clear this for us as I'd like to know...


I believe Doug does electronics. He's probably out of the normal day to day carrier loop.
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Old 05-20-2006, 03:39 PM
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I believe Doug does electronics. He's probably out of the normal day to day carrier loop.



Yeah, you're right, it is Doug. Think they can yank him from the insider job and put him out
on the beat so these treasured kits will get the proper care and handling they deserve?!
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The side thing is that I'm not sure they'll do anything about it. My mail service here really stinks. I'm on a "rural route" even though this area hasn't been "rural" in about 50 years. Getting the mail every day is an adventure because I'm never really sure who's mail I'll end up with. Still, I've been very lucky. Even though packages have been crushed, etc, somehow my stuff has always made it. Anyway my point (and yes, I do have one) is that although I've complained a bunch of times, I'm always given the brush off. Still, in a case like this, I don't think I would just let it drop...
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That should have been "sad" not "side." Where's my Monster energy drink so I can wake up?
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