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quoted 8 lines I recommend getting all sent mail Insured. It costs only a small extra

> > I recommend getting all sent mail Insured. It costs only a small extra > > fee and they will run a trace on it for you. It is the 90's my friends > > and there is no longer such a thing as "lost mail". > > This is simply untrue. I feel for you good people that got ganked, but the > US Post Office does fuck up, and they do it all of the time. Now whether > the USPS is actually losing your mail or stealing it is another story (my > guess is most of the time it's just lost).

You guys should give the Chilean post office a try. I think myself extraordinarily lucky when and if I get any mail. I'm still waiting for packages from Australia and the US which I'm pretty damned sure were sent (people tend not send things again at their own cost if they're in it for the scam). Stop whining and think yourselves lucky.

quoted 3 lines MC

> > MC >

Tim Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon find there is no God.

Mark Conklin wrote:

quoted 6 lines It is the 90's my friends and there is no longer

> > It is the 90's my friends and there is no longer > > such a thing as "lost mail". > This is simply untrue. I feel for you good people that got ganked, but the > US Post Office does fuck up, and they do it all of the time. Now whether > the USPS is actually losing your mail or stealing it is another story (my > guess is most of the time it's just lost).

I have to agree with Mark here. I've lost 4 pieces of mail (letters/packages) over the last year via USPS. The pieces of mail in question were all "Priority Mail." They do NOT trace items unless you insure them (and strangely enough, they never seem to get lost when I insure them ;-) so since it doesn't cost that much more, I insure ALL packages sent through USPS. I only use UPS on special occasions, so I cannot vouch for their personal service: However, I do use both UPS and FedEx (amongst others) at work and know that, even though they do a great job, they too screw up. Everyone is human... well, most people are. My recommendation is to control all elements that you can, since there are so many that you cannot. Kev. -- FreyGuy <Everyday is Freyday> Network/Notes Administrator Hansen Corporation kevfrey@evansville.net kfrey@hansen-motor.com http://www.evansville.net/~kevfrey/ "Step off, I'm doin' the HUMP!" - Digital Underground

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, FreyGuy wrote:

quoted 5 lines I have to agree with Mark here. I've lost 4 pieces of mail

> I have to agree with Mark here. I've lost 4 pieces of mail > (letters/packages) over the last year via USPS. The pieces of mail in > question were all "Priority Mail." They do NOT trace items unless you > insure them (and strangely enough, they never seem to get lost when I > insure them ;-)...

Hmm. A government-run protection racket? Stranger things have happened, I suppose. It rather reminds me of a Monty Python bit: "Mm, paratroops, Dino. Pity if someone were to set fire to *them*." -- J ________ \ / | Bee women: "What kind of corn soldiers are you?" H. James Harkins | Arthur: "Umm, oh, er, we're, uh, we're colonels." jharkins@acpub.duke.edu | \/ | - from "The Tick," now on Comedy Central, 6PM M-F "If we keep our attention focused on the present, we can be sure of one thing, namely that whatever we are attending to in this moment will change..." -- Jon Kabat-Zinn

quoted 3 lines From: "Tim Fothergill F. Ciencias Dpto. Biologia" <fothegil@abello.dic.uchile

> From: "Tim Fothergill F. Ciencias Dpto. Biologia" <fothegil@abello.dic.uchile.cl> > To: Mark Conklin <kidgrady@ix.netcom.com> > Subject: Re: (idm) Can Anyone Vouch For This Guy?

quoted 1 line Stop whining and think yourselves lucky.

> Stop whining and think yourselves lucky.

Suffering is relative. :) Ali "It means we'll manage I'll master your language And in the meantime I'll create my own" (Tricky)