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ride_4everApril-May mail from fen!
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written byelayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.
From "across the pond"smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".
minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.
My "MFU cousin"vysila sent me a box full of zines.
And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent tolauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.
The USPS damaged one of my pieces of mail so badly that I couldn't read the signature because that part of the postcard was torn off -- and it's a wonder that the postcard ever got to me at all since the part with my last name and half of my street address and half of my zip code and the entirety of my state was torn off -- but I recognized the style of the message as one written by
elayna, an amusing comment about having a vision of Fraser gaining some kind of super-powers caused by getting an electrical shock.From "across the pond"
smallhobbit sent me a card for "National Greeting Card Day".minoanmiss sent me two postcards for "National Poetry Month," one with a poem by Emily Dickinson and one with a poem by Mina Loy.My "MFU cousin"
vysila sent me a box full of zines.And ION about the USPS: two cards that I mailed to fen at the winter holidays in 2024 were returned to me by the USPS in 2025. One was a fairly quick return, as the card I sent to
lauramcewan came back to me within one month. The other card, the one to ver_verlain and Rebel, was returned to me FOUR MONTHS after I had mailed it and it had stripes of black marker on it and the "Title IX" stamp was defaced.
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Date: 2025-05-28 05:47 am (UTC)That last one is disturbing. :(
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Date: 2025-05-28 07:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-28 08:36 pm (UTC)The last mail anecdote, though - creepy. Creepy af. I wonder if one of the mail carriers did that, or if it was mangled in a sorting machine.
I once got mail - that was addressed to me - over TWO YEARS after it was initially sent. It was so badly mangled - probably by the automated sorting machines - that it finally got to me, with an apology from the USPS, in a protective plastic bag. wtf. I mean, I'm glad it finally arrived - and that it wasn't particularly important (just a bill) - but, jeez, ffs. I suppose I should be glad that the USPS admitted it was their error and that that happens so infrequently.
(Much more frequently, I got mail for other addresses, so I assume other addresses also got some of my mail, sigh. It doesn't happen as often where I live now, as it did at EVERY address I lived at in B-----: my mom's building, when I lived with M-----, and when I had my own post-M------ apartment.
I think there is just something about the B----- USPS office and employees. I don't know what the deal is, but it's been like that all my life - it even was throughout my childhood! - so it's a decades-long problem. My mom would send us off to neighbors' houses down the block, the next block over, or a couple blocks over, to bring them their misdirected USPS mail. If I need to snail mail something I really, really need to get where it's going, I either mail it at the bulk USPS office at Harrison & Canal downtown, or mail it at the USPS offices in O-- P--- or in N---- R--------.)
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Date: 2025-05-28 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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