[AGL] snooping at the US post office

[Bill Irwin]

Yea Mike, it's not a conspiracy.  We used to call this service not a
conspiracy to spy on you.  Same in my post office, they all know my face,
name and box number.  If I go to the counter they address me as Mr. Irwin
and I don't have to remind them of my box number.  I think it is service and
small town politeness.  Consider yourself lucky to have someone who
remembers you - it could be worse.
Ewie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] snooping at the US post office



> Mike,

> If I were you I wouldn't be paranoid about it. He has probably been

putting

> mail in your box since 1959 and knows you and hundreds of others whose

boxes

> he services.

>

> There are about 300 boxes at our PO and Virginia, the Post Mistress, knows

> which face connects to which box. If one of us wants to send Christmas

cards

> or party invites to locals all we have to do is put the name and a stamp

on

> the envelope and she will put them in the proper box. There are some smart

> people working in the great PO community (which still works amazingly well

> in most places in spite of occasional foul-ups).

>

> Tomorrow morning I depart for the Bay Area. Will spend a couple of weeks

> there with old friends and my daughters. Please disconnect my pairlist

> connection until I return, say January 4th. Thanks and a very happy

holiday

> to you and all the correspondents in our little virtual community.

> G

>

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>

> To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:03 AM

> Subject: [AGL] snooping at the US post office

>

>

> > I have had a p o box since 1959. Usually the

> > annual invoice is put in your box the first week

> > of December. Yesterday the invoice not having

> > arrived and in view of the fact that one time in

> > the early 60s, my p o box was shut down for

> > a week on Jan 1 until i discovered it confronted

> > them with my receipt for having paid for it and they reopened it,

> presumably

> > merely through sloppy bookkeeping, I went in to inquire.

> >

> > A seedy looking guy behind the dutch door where

> > one can pick up packages in the AM, when asked

> > about the invoices, looked at me and said 2672?

> > I was amazed but said nothing. He said he would inquire about the

> invoices.

> >

> > This morning there was a handwritten note in my

> > p o box: "Rent notice go out on the 20th."

> >

> > Aside him knowing my face, name, p o box, and

> > who i get mail from, one can speculate also on the fed cops having

gotten

> > behind in snooping on who has p o boxes so the invoices are going out

> late.

> >

> > Maybe it is just a game to the seedy gent, memorizing

> > all that he is capable of. For example, i used to keep

> > the scores of 4 bowlers playing together in my mind while setting pins

at

> > the bowling alley out of sheerest boredom.

> >

> >

>

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