Post Office Screwups -- One Large and one small

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1) Boeing Pension checks lost by USPS. (Heard on radio news, should be on the web news sites, even your establishment print press on Wednesday.) Computer problem or just another screwup.

2) Personal -- Stood in line for an hour Tuesday to get some USPS money orders from a small post office branch. A line out the door. Caught up on some reading out of my briefcase. Three clerks. Most of the time, any two of the three were "in the back", trying to get their terminals rebooted after each customer, or some other problem servicing a customer. Clerk said new computer system installed and said that if any entry was wrong, it would crash or lock up. I told her I hope she's ready to go manual in a few months because of Y2K.

-- A (A@AisA.com), October 06, 1999

Answers

Hmmm.... Our apt. bldg has not gotten any mail in 3 days. I finally recieved a 4th class package yesterday, but no mail (I almost always get at least junk mail, not that I miss it).

-- Rob (old@potrero.com), October 06, 1999.

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