dead letter office

[danny_galaga]

its coming to that time of year when there is a huge increase in mail, particularly cards. im starting to find more letters now with incorrect/impartial addresses. if it cant be delivered and there is no return address, it goes to the dead letter office where letters are opened up to determine return address. undeliverable cards im guessing get binned after some time. it makes me sad to see cards from 'nanna' that i cant deliver 

sometimes you get lucky and find other mail to the same addressee. but i deliver to 1141 boxes and up to about 2000 items each day so im to be forgiven for not remembering all the names  . i havent been instructed on an official method but i hang on to that sort of mail for up to a week, and probably have 75% success. the rest to the DLO.

so folks, help a postie NOT go postal and for letters ALWAYS have a return address. and for cards, have the persons last name on there ('dave smith' rather than just 'dave') in case the posties spots another letter for the same person.



Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and

coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it

piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the

more you get it out the more it keeps coming in....

[Bones]

You know... I was only wondering the other day how a postie knows what he has to deliver.

Put another way, you have your sack full of letters etc, how do you know along the way to stop at this house but not the next three and then stop again? Obviously you can't remember your run, so what IS the postie secret?

[danny_galaga]

we are picked because of our incredibly expansive minds, so intellectually advanced are we that we just 'know' whats coming next out of the bag. a bit like the stone age man in hitchhikers guide (the tv show) pulling scrabble pieces out of the bag 

edit: friend just sent me this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/6232705.stm

[Bones]

Don't mess with my mind man. I don't want to drag some postal worker off his "moped" and beat him repeatably until he shares the postie secret with me.

[polaris]

we are picked because of our incredibly expansive minds, so intellectually advanced are we that we just 'know' whats coming next out of the bag. a bit like the stone age man in hitchhikers guide (the tv show) pulling scrabble pieces out of the bag 

edit: friend just sent me this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/6232705.stm

yaay go Neath

[rovingmind]

I thought it was the little shoulder sitting elf, who guides them along the route.   Thats why they get attacked by dogs so much, the elf likes to taunt them and throw acorns.

[SithMaster]

While we are asking about the dark secrets of the postal world where do you send the letters to santa?  or maybe send reply mail saying "NO!" to some kinds dreams of getting something.

[SavannahLion]

While we are asking about the dark secrets of the postal world where do you send the letters to santa?  or maybe send reply mail saying "NO!" to some kinds dreams of getting something.

I asked my mom the same thing. She just smiled and said that if she told me about "Operation Santa Claus" she would have to kill me. 

I just accept that, somewhere, somehow, someone in the Post Office is the only one that knows if there really is a Santa (not that guy living in the Midwest) and they know where to deliver his mail. A bit like those owls in the Harry Potter books.

[Samstag]

While we are asking about the dark secrets of the postal world where do you send the letters to santa?  or maybe send reply mail saying "NO!" to some kinds dreams of getting something.

A lot of it goes (or used to go) to North Pole, Alaska, just outside of Fairbanks.  Seriously.

[billf]

While we are asking about the dark secrets of the postal world where do you send the letters to santa?  or maybe send reply mail saying "NO!" to some kinds dreams of getting something.

A lot of it goes (or used to go) to North Pole, Alaska, just outside of Fairbanks.  Seriously.

And then what, they burned them for heat?   

[Samstag]

While we are asking about the dark secrets of the postal world where do you send the letters to santa?  or maybe send reply mail saying "NO!" to some kinds dreams of getting something.

A lot of it goes (or used to go) to North Pole, Alaska, just outside of Fairbanks.  Seriously.

And then what, they burned them for heat?   

I don't remember.  I visited the place around 87 or 88.  All I really remember about it was that they had real reindeer (but not Rudolpf) and a crappy gift shop.

[SithMaster]

While we are asking about the dark secrets of the postal world where do you send the letters to santa?  or maybe send reply mail saying "NO!" to some kinds dreams of getting something.

A lot of it goes (or used to go) to North Pole, Alaska, just outside of Fairbanks.  Seriously.

And then what, they burned them for heat?   

I don't remember.  I visited the place around 87 or 88.  All I really remember about it was that they had real reindeer (but not Rudolpf) and a crappy gift shop.

it would cost too much for him to make a guest appearance.  if you ask me that movie went straight to his head.

[danny_galaga]

Don't mess with my mind man. I don't want to drag some postal worker off his "moped" and beat him repeatably until he shares the postie secret with me.

hey, dont go postal on me!