| [R] Life imitates Art [message #300038] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 09:35 |
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEno ughNews&storyid=2006-07-14T190508Z_01_L14885111_RTRUKOC_ 0_US-GERMANY-POST.xml&src=rss
Postal worker caught with thousands of letters
Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:14am ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker who was caught with more than
several thousand undelivered letters in his basement has admitted he was
overwhelmed by the job but insisted he planned to deliver them soon.
Police recently found 90 boxes of post stacked in his basement. The postal
worker, 36, identified as Thomas H., told Bild newspaper Friday he was only
temporarily storing the post at his house and friends would help with
delivery.
"There were just too much and I couldn't deliver it all by myself," he told
the newspaper. Police said some of the letters found had been postmarked as
early as April. The postal worker faces disciplinary action.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301257 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 16:14 |
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SeekUp <seek.up.girl [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> Postal worker caught with thousands of letters
> Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:14am ET
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> BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker [...]
I thought I read exactly this story about a Canadian
postal worker the other day? Interesting. Oh, and
they call "Bild" a newspaper. I wouldn't put much
trust into this story.
Schobi
--
SpamTrap [at] gmx.de is never read
I'm Schobi at suespammers dot org
"The sarcasm is mightier than the sword."
Eric Jarvis
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301289 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 19:25 |
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Hendrik Schober wrote:
> SeekUp <seek.up.girl [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Postal worker caught with thousands of letters
>> Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:14am ET
>>
>> BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker [...]
>
> I thought I read exactly this story about a Canadian
> postal worker the other day? Interesting. Oh, and
> they call "Bild" a newspaper. I wouldn't put much
> trust into this story.
>
> Schobi
>
We had a spate of links to these types of stories just after GP came
out. It seems to be a universal truth that when a postman has too many
letters he squirrels some away to deal with tomorrow... (which like the
hidden letters) never comes. I would not be surprised if most other
over worked people 'evaporate' work but it never leaves a real trace.
(Quality control, just sign off some sheets for unchecked work as
everything is ok and nobody will find out) (Marking, just grade the
papers on the names as you know what the marks would be) (Programming,
just use those old modules, we can sort the long standing bugs later)
etc etc.
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301293 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 19:35 |
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On 2006-07-17 12:25:28 -0500, Mark Foweraker <markfoweraker [at] hotmail.com> said:
> Hendrik Schober wrote:
>> SeekUp <seek.up.girl [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Postal worker caught with thousands of letters
>>> Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:14am ET
>>>
>>> BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker [...]
>>
>> I thought I read exactly this story about a Canadian
>> postal worker the other day? Interesting. Oh, and
>> they call "Bild" a newspaper. I wouldn't put much
>> trust into this story.
>>
>> Schobi
>>
> We had a spate of links to these types of stories just after GP came
> out. It seems to be a universal truth that when a postman has too many
> letters he squirrels some away to deal with tomorrow... (which like the
> hidden letters) never comes.
Which is why GP is art imitating life and not the other way 'round.
--
A hidden compartment under the seat of my a car has a baggie filled
with flour that smells of doggy treats.
It keeps them on their toes.
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301295 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 19:40 |
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In article <e9g68o$bu6$1 [at] murphy.mediascape.de>, Hendrik Schober says...
> SeekUp <seek.up.girl [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Postal worker caught with thousands of letters
> > Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:14am ET
> >
> > BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker [...]
>
> I thought I read exactly this story about a Canadian
> postal worker the other day? Interesting. Oh, and
> they call "Bild" a newspaper. I wouldn't put much
> trust into this story.
It happens from time to time, both with postal carriers and contract
drivers; at least they don't usually burn the mail when overwhelmed by
the volume.
--
rgl "Conan, what is mathematics?"
"To crush your enemies' theorems, to write obscure notations on the
blackboard, and to hear the lamentation of the grad students..."
Wayne Throop
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301296 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 19:42 |
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The time: 17 Jul 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
speaker: raymond larsson <raglegumm [at] sasktel.net.invalid>
> In article <e9g68o$bu6$1 [at] murphy.mediascape.de>, Hendrik
> Schober says...
>
>> SeekUp <seek.up.girl [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > Postal worker caught with thousands of letters
>> > Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:14am ET
>> >
>> > BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker [...]
>>
>> I thought I read exactly this story about a Canadian
>> postal worker the other day? Interesting. Oh, and
>> they call "Bild" a newspaper. I wouldn't put much
>> trust into this story.
>
> It happens from time to time, both with postal carriers and
> contract drivers; at least they don't usually burn the mail
> when overwhelmed by the volume.
That'd be Tampering With The Mail. It's not like it's *never*
going to get delivered...
--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
"If being stuck in a swamp with Christine Hamilton
is 'reality', pass the mind-altering drugs."
-Humphrey Lyttelton, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301617 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 03:15 |
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:35:39 +0200, SeekUp wrote:
> BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker who was caught with more than
> several thousand
'More than several thousand'? I'd like to think journalists could come up
with more grammatical content than that!
--
Kind regards,
Julian Hall
"I'm only on the planet because I missed the bus home"
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301650 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 08:55 |
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:15:24 +0100, Julian Hall
<lists [at] removethisbit.kaotic.co.uk> wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:35:39 +0200, SeekUp wrote:
>
>> BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker who was caught with more than
>> several thousand
>
>'More than several thousand'? I'd like to think journalists could come up
>with more grammatical content than that!
I'd LIKE to think so, but sadly, reading papers teaches me
otherwise.....
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| Re: Life imitates Art [message #301724 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 16:05 |
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Belit wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:15:24 +0100, Julian Hall
> <lists [at] removethisbit.kaotic.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:35:39 +0200, SeekUp wrote:
> >
> >> BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker who was caught with more than
> >> several thousand
> >
> >'More than several thousand'? I'd like to think journalists could come up
> >with more grammatical content than that!
>
> I'd LIKE to think so, but sadly, reading papers teaches me
> otherwise.....
Absolutely, that's how we get headlines like "Stolen Painting Found By
Tree."
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| Re: [I] Life imitates Art [message #301756 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 19:11 |
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raymond larsson wrote:
> In article <e9g68o$bu6$1 [at] murphy.mediascape.de>, Hendrik Schober says...
>
> > SeekUp <seek.up.girl [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Postal worker caught with thousands of letters
> > > Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:14am ET
> > >
> > > BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin postal worker [...]
> >
> > I thought I read exactly this story about a Canadian
> > postal worker the other day? Interesting. Oh, and
> > they call "Bild" a newspaper. I wouldn't put much
> > trust into this story.
>
> It happens from time to time, both with postal carriers and contract
> drivers; at least they don't usually burn the mail when overwhelmed by
> the volume.
>
> --
> rgl
This has happened at least twice in Britain in the last year/eighteen
months. A woman was recently sentenced for squirrelling mail (I can't
remember where she was from - I vaguely thought it was on the south
coast) and then a man was convicted only a few weeks ago for the same
thing. She had got overwhelmed after a while, but he started hoarding
things after only a month. He blamed it on his diabetes, IIRC. I
doubt it impressed the judge!
After doing a very poorly paid paper round (a free local advert "the
paper you can put your truss in" kind![0]) as a teenager, I can perhaps
empathise if they don't deliver to houses with those finger-snapping
letterboxes or uncontrolled psychotic dogs that are deliberately
allowed to try to bite posties' fingers for the owners' amusement.
However, that has yet to be reported as a reason in a real case, AFAIK.
There was a weird old bloke on the paper round who was always trying to
find excuses to get the local kids to go in his flat. He was the only
person I refused to deliver to. I'm not daft...
[0] Thanks, Terry. This is how I look at newspapers these days, and
after The Truth they all look a lot more interesting, however
questionable their content!
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| Re: [R] Life imitates Art [message #301777 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 13:58 |
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Hendrik Schober posted:
> ... Oh, and they call "Bild" a newspaper. ...
;-)
Scary eh?
--
Ciao
Thomas =:-)
<I'm feeling so tired, all of a sudden>
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| Re: Life imitates Art [message #302087 ] |
Fr, 21 Juli 2006 13:59 |
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:05:26 -0700, MyPostingID wrote:
> Absolutely, that's how we get headlines like "Stolen Painting Found By
> Tree."
Clever tree! Have an acor... ohhhhhh.....
I love adverts too for the same reason.. my favourite (real job advert)
has to be:
'Required: Knife thrower's assistant.
Due to unexpected vacancy.'
--
Kind regards,
Julian Hall
"I'm only on the planet because I missed the bus home"
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