All Your Mailboxes Are Belong to Us Now

Here was an unsettling set of signs that appeared in the mailbox stack at our apartment complex back in February.  It reports that some of the boxes have been compromised.  Not my box, but the group just to the left.  Some interesting info about how this ends up playing out.  Until the boxes are repaired, you have to go to the PO to get your mail.  What a pain.



I blurred out the address, but included the full letter from the postmaster.  The way they talk about the amount of vandalism is alarming.  Can't people just mind their own business and stop looking for freebies but taking from someone else?  I guess not.

It took 2-1/2 months for the situation to resolve and for the signs to disappear.  But are we any safer?



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Yield Signs: Flow Chart Style?

Image
  There are some yield signs around town whose appear to targeted at a very small audience: people who like to read flowcharts.  Sure, you can stand there and work out what they're trying to say, but I'm sure 99% of people who walk by just shrug and think "whatever". I don't know if they bug me because they're trying to be too clever, or too dense.  Maybe they just remind me of work.
Read more

Need More Nines

Image
I know that retailers love to use prices just below the dollar marks to try and fool us into thinking tge price is lower than it is.  So $2.95 instead of $3.  Sadly, it works.  Almost everyone who sees $2.99 has some chunk of their brain thinking it's only "two something", not properly rounding up to three. But what's the deal with this?? $2.99.99 is not a real use of numbers. May 15 update: we saw a short documentary on the 99-cent stores going out of business, and I think it said that company invented the extra .99 bit during a few years of trying not to raise their prices to $1.
Read more

Lost Remote?

Image
  Here's a fun sign.  Someone lost their remote control for some kind of "machine".  The sign was there for about 3 weeks before some major construction began, so I walked back over and got a picture of the sign surrounded by machinery.  I doubt that any of those trucks are remotely controlled, so the sign and the machines are probably unrelated.  There's just a lot happening on this corner. Yesterday, the sign was gone but judging from this new sign, the construction is going to continue for another month.  Note that June 31 is not a real date, so does that mean they don't have an actual completion date in mind?  
Read more