I've always wondered where my SASE's went...

[AutographCollector]

Interesting:
It's a discovery worthy of a murder mystery: In a parking lot in the mountains outside Santa Cruz, Calif., a truck is found abandoned, the keys still hanging in the door. Inside the police find … a note? A body?

Not quite. Try 13,000 pieces of undelivered mail.

Link: http://www.slate.com/id/2204823/pagenum/all/

Oh and don't worry... there are more "lazy mailman stories" inside the link.

[Dalkowski110]

Yeah, that's pretty much par for the course with the local guys.

[ttmman21]

AC, you beat me to it, I was about to post that, maybe that's where all my Don Aase requests are

[hudsonharden]

http://carlgaines.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/trashcan1.jpg

[Mike D.]

I read that article as well. It sounds like in most cases, it's junk mail (catalogs, credit card offers, etc) that these guys rathole, not first class mail, since as the article states, people will notice when their checks and stuff like that don't arrive, but who notices the millionth catalog not showing up.

You'd think these guys would at least recycle or throw away this stuff, instead of keeping the evidence around to get caught.

[AutographCollector]

maybe that's where all my Don Aase requests are

How many times have you sent to him? I got back from him many moons ago, but it seems that he won't sign a lick now. :crazy

http://carlgaines.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/trashcan1.jpg

Man, I hope not Karl.

I read that article as well. It sounds like in most cases, it's junk mail (catalogs, credit card offers, etc) that these guys rathole, not first class mail, since as the article states, people will notice when their checks and stuff like that don't arrive, but who notices the millionth catalog not showing up.

You'd think these guys would at least recycle or throw away this stuff, instead of keeping the evidence around to get caught.

Yeah I know that it meant primarily bulk mail, but who really knows? Maybe that one sase from a sure fire signer was in that bunch somewhere.

[icee82]

Evidently that is happening right now because I am really in a TTM slump. I have been sending regularly but they are certainly not being returned in a similar fashion.

[ttmman21]

I sent to Aase once in the last 3 years, i dont understand why they deliver the first class mail but decided not to bring the rest, whats the difference? its called being LAZY:disbelief:

[Mike D.]

i dont understand why they deliver the first class mail but decided not to bring the rest, whats the difference? its called being LAZY:disbelief:

It is totally being lazy. It's also fraud to take money to do a job and not do it. That being said, the logic behind why they delivered the first class mail is that it tends to be stuff people would notice missing...paychecks, letters, bills, even TTM respones. If the fifth pottery barn catalog of the month doesn't show up, though, who's going to notice? Plus, the bulk mail stuff is probably usually heavier, so I can see the mail carrier dumping that instead of the first class stuff for that reason, too.

[kearns643]

This is kinda like my Little League coach..he got caught stealing the mail!!!!
And he worked for them too!

[SDL]

Still, you have to figure that if the crooked postal guy recognized the name if the playere, he might think he;d be scoring a bonanza and he could resell it on eBay...