[PRCo] Re: Hack

[Dwight Long]

Fred

That's a great idea, and I would do the same, except that Robyn insists, for some unfathomable reason, in continuing to receive her mail at the house.

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Monday, 28 March, 2011 11:30
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Hack


  On of the chaps at PTM, whose name I don't wish to disclose, was telling me a story of how the local kids in his neighborhood were getting exercise driving along smashing mailboxes with a baseball bat.    All the way down his road, the boxes were smashed.

  Until they got to his box.

  There the remains of the bat ... the fragments of the bat were on the ground.   He figured some kid who leaned out the car window at 30 miles per hour wound up in a hospital to have his shoulder rebuilt.   Can you imagine the kid telling the doctor, "I guess I hit the baseball a little too hard" or "I fell and hurt the shoulder."   Yeah, right.   

  As I understand the rest of the story, Mr. "X" has a box at the post office but the Postal Disservice also demanded that he erect a mail box at his home for the junk mail.  He told me he didn't want the junk mail but he did just what the post office told him to do.   He followed the letter of the law but not the spirit.   He erected a box and put it on a very sturdy post.   But he filled it with concrete so that the mail man couldn't put junk mail in it.   Ah yes, hitting that mailbox at 30 miles per hour was like hitting a bridge abutment. 


  On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Dwight Long wrote:

  > Ken
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  > That's why I rent a box at the Post Office.
  > 
  > Dwight
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  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: Ken and Tracie 
  >  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  >  Sent: Monday, 28 March, 2011 09:19
  >  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Hack
  > 
  > 
  >  Even "back in the day", people would steal mail from houses' mailboxes or 
  >  from corner public mailboxes, In the latter case, they would use a broom 
  >  handle with duct tape wrapped on the end, to fish for letters containing 
  >  checks or money orders.
  > 
  >  K.
  > 
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  >  ----- Original Message ----- 
  >  From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
  >  To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
  >  Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2011 4:17 PM
  >  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Hack
  > 
  > 
  >> The joy of modern communications
  >> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 18:34, Phillip Clark Campbell 
  >> <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:
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  >>> My apologies to any list members who may have
  >>> received spam from my email account.  At this point
  >>> I assume the yahoo server was compromised; I was
  >>> gone Fri and Sat and just turned on the machine.
  >>> yahoo password changed;  machine scan is clear.
  >>> 
  >>> Phil
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  >> -- 
  >> Herb Brannon
  >> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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