Also to be remembered is that to some people, until the internet,
keyboards were/are an alien thing.
USING ALL CAPS is "screaming" in "internet etiquette", but for some
people, using the SHIFT key is as strange as wiping their butt with the
left hand if they are RIGHT-HANDED. Try it sometime and you'll see what
I mean.
As a working journalist for many years, I often met novice writers who
wrote everything in UPPER CASE because it meant that they didn't have to
think about the shift key.
I know one Australian dealer who, until he got his girlfriend to type
most of his messages, typed EVERYTHING IN UPPER CASE because he NEVER
USED A KEYBOARD BEFORE.
I know one US dealer/collector, a very graven fellow, who while he is
perfectly capable of using a typewriter and churned out millions of
words for 60s fanzines is completely computer phobic and gets his wife
to answer all his emails.
I know of one novice collector who likes to lecture fellow collectors
about what they say and how they say it, and can't spell to save his
life on one forum, but on another forum demonstrates a completely
"different" command of the language where syntax and spelling appear to
be by another writer entirely.
there is also a whole internet generation who only use lower case and
never use the shift key even for proper nouns. they also use terms like
'prolly' instead of "probably". the end of a sentence doesn't mean that
they need an upper case letter to start the next sentence. they say LOL
(which means "lots of laughs" to their generation, but to my generation,
pre-internet, LOL meant "little old lady"...
There is also a whole new generation of texters (America is, for once,
lagging behind England, Australia and much of Europe in this
technological phenom) that have a whole other language and are already
developing hyper-extended thumb joints from using texting as their
primary form of communication.
And as for the US mail... sorry guys, but it has been a long time since
the "neither rain, hail sleet, nor snow" routine has meant anything.
Since 9/11, the US government has been inspecting mail, destroying mail
and employing mail "inspectors" who just might be very interested in
that item in your package, way beyond any work contract they have signed.
I wish it weren't so, but it's true. Things have changed.
Phil (or PHIL, or phil)... depending on what mood you're in.
JR wrote:
Al,
As you can see, several people have supported your claim that media
mail is being opened for "proper use" these days (simply because so
many eBay sellers are using it to ship things that were never intended
for the strict uses media mail class was designed for). Just another
good reason not to use media mail. Although I must say that a Xeroxed
copy of a magazine certainly *should* qualify for media mail status as
I understand it... but there's no point in fighting with the Post
Office (you never win). I just won't use media mail any more for all
kinds of reasons.
By the way, are you at all familiar with the internet
convention/courtesy that using a LOT OF ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in a
message is the internet EQUIVALENT OF YELLING or SCREAMING at people?
Don't you realize that it is considered QUITE RUDE to do so? More
IMPORTANT -- a lot of people will STOP READING your messages
completely if they contain with SO MANY ALL CAPS WORDS.
Just a suggestion.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Al Shevy <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
*Sent:* Friday, September 16, 2005 23:34
*Subject:* Re: [MOPO] random inspection of a persons mail
I'm glad that you think that the POSTMASTER in LANSING knows what is
happening here in Tampa. So I guess you want to make it out that I
made this
all up and is more of my DASTARDLY PLAN to defraud everybody. I
guess the
photo copied MAGAZINE that they sent me that they OPENED and told
me they
sent POSTAGE due because it was NOT MEDIA MAIL is all made up???I
guess the
whole conversation that I had with the POSTMASTER about this is all a
flashback from all the acid I did years ago?????I guess the fact
that I was
on the phone 4 hours yesterday trying to find out what happened to
DAVID'S
packing that I sent is all BS also. I guess the fact that I tried
to call
DAVID with no RESPONSE with the INFO I obtained is all BS also. I
guess the
fact that I in FACT am trying to do the right thing here and I
read this
nonsense is all the more reason why I should just shut up because
like I
said it does not matter what I do SOME OF YOU FOLKS ARE
........................................I'll stop there and let
you use your
imagination. I'm sure you know where I was going. By the way DAVID
sent THE
POSTER TO ME PRIORITY MAIL INSURED. It was delivered to my
NEIGHBOR. It was
open when I received it.Not that that matters as I'm sure the
POSTMASTER in
LANSING knows more about it then me. This response has been
CENSORED by me
for the more DELICATE among you who have asked me NOT TO BE SO
CANDID.I hope
this response meets with your approval.
Al
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
<mailto:MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] random inspection of a persons mail
> Why I am even commenting on this I don't know because I will
regret it. I
> talked to the postmaster person here in Lansing where all mail
for the
> state
> (except Detroit) is collected and routed. He said post offices
are not
> allowed
> to randomly open peoples mail to check for proper postal class
of mailing.
> Neither are insured items delivered to a neighbor if it was the
type of
> insurance
> where the mailer received a numbered receipt. The person to
whom it is
> addressed or their representative has to sign for it and show
id. This is
> for the
> post office's and the recipients protection.
> I believe you get what you pay for at the post office.
Handling is by
> hand
> or by machine depending on the service you select. ie: how much
you pay.
> Picking the cheapest service gets the lowest level of care in
handling.
>
>
> In a message dated 9/14/2005 11:29:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> << SHIT happens. I just found out TODAY that the post office
here is TAMPA
> has been randomly opening my mail because they wanted to see if
it was
> sent
> UNDER THE RIGHT CLASS. I sent some items out the other day and
received a
> letter
> with some photo copies that the items I had sent as media mail
was in fact
> not
> media mail because it was vintage comic books and they sent the
items with
> POSTAGE due to the people I had sent them to. This of course
pissed them
> off and
> I received a neg on ebay for it. So now I have found out that
for the last
> 6
> months my mail has been tampered with by the post office. Thats just
> great. I
> recently sent out a spiderman 1 and the person I sent it to said
they did
> not
> receive it. David sent me back a poster and I did not receive
it. Now I
> find
> out the POST OFFICE has been opening my mail. >>
>
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