the U.S. Postal Service SUCKS!!!
Muscletang
04-13-2006, 05:31 PM
Postcard Sent Back With 1956 Postmark (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060413/ap_on_fe_st/lost_postcard)
DELAND, Fla. - Talk about lost in the mail. A postcard sent from a Stetson home to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with a "return to sender" stamp — and its 1956 postmark.
Mack McCormick, 59, did not send the postcard, but he lives in the home where the postcard originated. It was delivered to his mailbox Monday.
"The card apparently has been in the twilight zone for 50 years," McCormick said. "It's not wrinkled or anything."
He used the Internet to track down the author of the note, George Hitz, 64, who now lives in Sudbury, Mass.
"I had to keep asking questions and pull it out of Mack," Hitz said. "It wasn't obvious to me that he lived in our house."
Hitz, a former ham radio operator included his age on the postcard and information about a radio contact he made in February 1956 with someone he called "Chief Operator Dave." No street address was included for Dave, which may explain why the postcard was not delivered, postal officials said.
It is unlikely the postcard spent the last 50 years in a DeLand post office, said Joseph Breckenridge, U.S. Postal Service spokesman for Central and North Florida. The local post office has not been in the same location that long, and maintenance workers would have found it if it was trapped in a sorting machine, Breckenridge said.
The card may have been sent to California and was rediscovered recently by someone who dropped it back in the mail, Breckenridge said.
Hitz said he is not interested in getting his old postcard back. McCormick plans to frame it.
Doesn't Nicole or some blonde chick on here live in DeLand?
DELAND, Fla. - Talk about lost in the mail. A postcard sent from a Stetson home to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with a "return to sender" stamp — and its 1956 postmark.
Mack McCormick, 59, did not send the postcard, but he lives in the home where the postcard originated. It was delivered to his mailbox Monday.
"The card apparently has been in the twilight zone for 50 years," McCormick said. "It's not wrinkled or anything."
He used the Internet to track down the author of the note, George Hitz, 64, who now lives in Sudbury, Mass.
"I had to keep asking questions and pull it out of Mack," Hitz said. "It wasn't obvious to me that he lived in our house."
Hitz, a former ham radio operator included his age on the postcard and information about a radio contact he made in February 1956 with someone he called "Chief Operator Dave." No street address was included for Dave, which may explain why the postcard was not delivered, postal officials said.
It is unlikely the postcard spent the last 50 years in a DeLand post office, said Joseph Breckenridge, U.S. Postal Service spokesman for Central and North Florida. The local post office has not been in the same location that long, and maintenance workers would have found it if it was trapped in a sorting machine, Breckenridge said.
The card may have been sent to California and was rediscovered recently by someone who dropped it back in the mail, Breckenridge said.
Hitz said he is not interested in getting his old postcard back. McCormick plans to frame it.
Doesn't Nicole or some blonde chick on here live in DeLand?
Rally Sport
04-13-2006, 06:24 PM
Its amazing that the freaking letter was around for that long and the only question you come up with is a question about Nicole and where she lives? :lol2:
FlippiN.af
04-13-2006, 07:52 PM
Crazy Werd...:rolleyes:
sv650s
04-13-2006, 08:39 PM
that's pretty cool.....magazines could use this as an excuse to charge people extra, they can say they sent you a bill 50 years ago so they're charging you like 20k extra
2.2 Straight six
04-13-2006, 10:21 PM
hmm.....blondes....postcards......muscletang.....
this spells trouble...
this spells trouble...
kris
04-13-2006, 10:57 PM
So why does the postal service suck? They have a very small margin of error, considering the amount of mail they deliver each day.
Nicole8188
04-13-2006, 11:35 PM
Wooh!!!
I live in Dead-Land! Freaking amazing...Who woulda thought something from my hometown would be posted on here? Granted, it's not exactly great news...but still. I'm so proud.
I send stuff from the post office here all the time. As far as I know, it's all been delivered. Chris, you got the pictures, right? :uhoh: (Joking...)
I think I might go find that guy and read the postcard. I'll take a picture and post it here. I'm sure all of you are dying to read it....seems so interesting.
Yay! Go DeLand!
I live in Dead-Land! Freaking amazing...Who woulda thought something from my hometown would be posted on here? Granted, it's not exactly great news...but still. I'm so proud.
I send stuff from the post office here all the time. As far as I know, it's all been delivered. Chris, you got the pictures, right? :uhoh: (Joking...)
I think I might go find that guy and read the postcard. I'll take a picture and post it here. I'm sure all of you are dying to read it....seems so interesting.
Yay! Go DeLand!
FlippiN.af
04-13-2006, 11:54 PM
Yippee!
We get to see it...:rolleyes:
We get to see it...:rolleyes:
Nicole8188
04-14-2006, 12:04 AM
Did I just detect some sarcasm?
driftinggrifter2
04-14-2006, 12:14 AM
Wooh!!!
I live in Dead-Land! Freaking amazing...Who woulda thought something from my hometown would be posted on here? Granted, it's not exactly great news...but still. I'm so proud.
At least yours wasnt to bad for news. When they talked aobut Bradenton a few months back it was about alittle fat ass kid that beat his grandma.
As far as that postcard goes, pretty amazing it was still around after 50yrs I would have thought it had found it's way to the trash by now.
I live in Dead-Land! Freaking amazing...Who woulda thought something from my hometown would be posted on here? Granted, it's not exactly great news...but still. I'm so proud.
At least yours wasnt to bad for news. When they talked aobut Bradenton a few months back it was about alittle fat ass kid that beat his grandma.
As far as that postcard goes, pretty amazing it was still around after 50yrs I would have thought it had found it's way to the trash by now.
FlippiN.af
04-14-2006, 12:34 AM
Did I just detect some sarcasm?No...I was serious...because I'm that bored...:frown:
Nicole8188
04-14-2006, 12:42 AM
Okay...so my new mission in life right now is to find that guy. Should be easy...
vinnym86
04-14-2006, 02:48 AM
the only thing my hometown is known for is a child rapist, a serial killer, several bank robbers, some gang violence, aaaaand, oh yes, the school district with the highest use of ecstacy in the immediate tri-state area... oh yeah, i love this town.
2.2 Straight six
04-14-2006, 12:38 PM
i think the most recent thing about London was that guy that was arrested for being ass-raped by a dog. that was like 5 miles from where i live...
travis712
04-14-2006, 09:07 PM
Interesting, but I love USPS. I ship a lot of shit I sell on the internet through them, they never let me down.
Nicole= Get to it! Hunt him down!
Nicole= Get to it! Hunt him down!
kicker1_solo
04-15-2006, 10:32 PM
wow, that's crazy...
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