RE: Humour with vague ON-topic justification..

["Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>]

I'm sure she didn't realise that her full address would also :-0

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 February 2002 16:17
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Humour with vague ON-topic justification..
>
> Okay..
>
> I made my first foray into ebay, and it has not gone well..
>
> I found a guy selling five cuecats (the little hackable barcode
readers
> which I inetend to use in a fridge stock application) for the rather
> tempting price of $9.99 for the five. No-one else bit, I won, and he
has
> shipped them by US Surface Mail.
>
> The Guy is claiming that this will take 1-2 months.
>
> Rather than start bitching to VISA, paypal and ebay fraud people, I
> decided
> to check with the USPS to see if this was right. (although 2 months
USA-UK
> is stretching things a little... from my own experience, Nepal-UK
takes
> about 12 days, and a letter from Tanzania managed to make the trip in
> three
> weeks)
>
> Then, however, I found this, and almost ended myself laughing.
>
> There is such a thing as "too much info" on official forms,
and I
don't
> think this girl realised that her question was going to be posted on
the
> USPS website as part of their Auto-FAQ process...
>
> http://usps.custhelp.com/cgi-
> bin/usps.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=c1Ay
>
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>
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>
> This *will* wrap, but it's worth it ;)
>
> Ian.
>
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