Archive for July, 2006
Meet the Flintstones
One day, I read somewhere that the postmaster of Bedrock, Colorado grew so tired of processing mail addressed to Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble that they had a stamp made especially for rejecting such mail. I had to see this, so I mailed a letter to the the 850 person town of Bedrock. The results [...]
Getting a letter in the mail
This cartoon reminds me of one of the first postal pranks I can remember. Maybe in 6th or 7th grade, my Boy Scout leader sent himself a “letter” while we were at summer camp. Each day he would run up the mail call asking if his letter had arrived. After four or five days, his [...]