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From: "Gary Vaughn" <>
Subject: Fw: [GM-L] Re: GenMassachusetts-D Digest V00 #157
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:20:26 -0500


They should give the mailman a delete button :)
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Subject: Re: [GM-L] Re: GenMassachusetts-D Digest V00 #157


> In a message dated 00-03-24 19:00:37 EST, writes:
>
> << Mail is often delayed. And
> some postal workers have run amok.
> >>
> Yes! Several years ago - in Rhode Island, in the town of Lincoln, a
mailman
> was
> arrested and imprisoned for burying a huge amount of mail in the mail
sacks in
> his backyard. When he sold the house, the new owners discovered many of
> the sacks filled with several year's mail. Seems he was spending his
> afternoons
> in local cafes and then burying his work in his own back yard. The story
made
> the Assoc. Press and local newspapers for weeks!
>

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