Archive for January, 2007
Matching Wits with the Post Office, Circa 1957
ModernMechanix.com is publishing a reprint from a 1957 issue of Popular Science. It shows how mail was delivered, including underground pneumatic tubes in New York City. The article even mentions people like me who mess around with the system: Then there are wags who like to match wits with the post office. Some address letters [...]
Packages With Only One Side
My friend, James Dean, gave me this Wal-Mart promotional piggy bank. It’s about 30cm round and has been my favorite package to send. It’s roundness causes lots of fun. When I mailed it to my parents, the clerk put it on the scale to weigh it. It promptly rolled off and made a nice WHAM [...]