Re: humorous if off topic (follows on to: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage

[gleason@mwk.com (Lee K. Gleason)]

In article <hnsngr-ya023180000808992023390001@news.pacbell.net>, hnsngr@sirius.com (Ron Hunsinger) writes:
> 
> The point of the story, at least as I understood it, was that the Post
> Office is capable of handling more than just postcards.
> 


  The best programmer I've ever worked with works at the post office
now...as a letter carrier (in 1987, he finished a program he'd been 
working on, got up from his desk, announced that now he'd finished
the last thing he'd been interested in seeing a computer do, and quit...
started as a letter carrier two months later...if you are in San Francisco,
near North Beach, keep an eye out for him...he's the only letter carrier
around there with bright red hair halfway down his back).

  Anyway, he said that jewelry is shipped very often, as a matter of
routine, via certified, registered mail. He had a bad few weeks
once...when he lost a small registered, certified parcel...fortunately
for him, they decided not to fire him and prosecute, since this
particular parcel wasn't of any great value...he said it's
a serious big deal to lose one, and it happens very rarely as a result.

Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
gleason@insync.net