I recently had a pen package I was awaiting in Britain from America apparently disappear into a wonderful place called USPS Jamaica NY for six weeks. When it finally turned up, it was stamped: 'Missent to Barbados'. The sender was given a lot of flannel about it just being stuck in a customs shed somewhere and these things happen, while it was on its odyssey.
Kind regards,
Timothy
[QUOTE=sweetnightingale;161790]Thanks. Unfortunately, my glue gun seems to have gotten a piece of metal jammed into it, so I'm sans melting function at the moment. I made a few with an old teaspoon and candle, but it made my whole room smell like smoke, so I'm going to have to find a butane lighter or something next time I'm out.
Related note: does anyone know how to form wax... remnants... into a stick shape for proper remelting? So far my idea is just to heat it up in a spoon and pour into a makeshift aluminium form (haven't tried yet, in case its a dumb idea)
[QUOTE=Pharmasweaves;161883]I never tried making seals with a glue gun but I hear that method is much easier to control. I just use a butane lighter and heat it up that way. I let it drip, then attempt to get it into a nice puddle for stamping. Notice I say attempt here. LOL. Some turn out pretty good; others not as good, but I'm getting better.
On a related note, like Sam, I have a question. What do you do when you're near the end of a stick? I like to get as much usage out of my sticks as I can, but when you get near the end, the chance of fiery fingers is greater.
sweetnightingale (February 28th, 2016)
Some people heat their wax in a spoon, so hammer, old spoon and candle is another possibility.
Got an email from a pen pal from last yr inco asking me if I moved I said no why. She got her letter sent back saying my box is vacant hmmm way to go usps way to go
Tom
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Tomasz S Suchecki
77 Meadowpark Ave North
Stamford CT 06905-2221
United States of America
I could see, in KS wind, the person getting the mail out of the box and one or more getting blown off and maybe the only way to catch it was to step on it to stop it.
Sandy
We don't know what we don't know
Ohh and I have lived here almost 3 yrs just for reference so its not like I just got here
Reminds me of a particularly bad winter's USPS story.
TLDR; version after paragraph.
I remember one year we got like 3 or 4 feet of snow. The town plow trucks blew all the snow over my mailbox overnight, leaving about a 2 foot shell of frozen garbage around it. When I finally dug the front out, I get a note placed into my mailbox saying I need to shovel a something degree grade leading to and from the front of my mailbox so that they don't have to reach out of the truck. After a few days of digging, the snow had melted enough for me to find out that the plows had knocked the mailbox off of the stand and pushed it a couple feet down the street (the snow had apparently cocooned it to stay up and look like it was on the stand. Since it was broken off and I didn't know how to replace it (being relatively young) I used wire and duct tape to secure it to the stand. Got a note from the USPS saying it wasn't secure enough (in the meantime, I'm still not getting any mail here). After finally asking for help from the neighbors and getting a new, bigger mailbox installed, I finally got all the prior day's mail. Each day was rubber banded, and the whole thing was surrounded by a bigger rubber band. In each day's pile, the top envelope had a note somewhere along the lines of "improper mailbox position, undeliverable" or "mailbox covered in snow". Super annoying.
TLDR; 3 feet of snow, town plows bury and break my mailbox. USPS refuses to deliver my mail while I work on digging and replacing, but still leaves notes in my mailbox why they won't deliver my mail.
Crazyorange (March 21st, 2016), mgmmaze (March 21st, 2016)
TLDR; 3 feet of snow, town plows bury and break my mailbox. USPS refuses to deliver my mail while I work on digging and replacing, but still leaves notes in my mailbox why they won't deliver my mail.
Yet they can't deliver the mail but manage to put notes in your box. Maybe the person that put the notes in your box would be able to help the mail carrier.... Oh, it might be the same person, how foolish of me.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
-Pogo
I've posted this before. I bought an aquatic plant and it went missing. 3 weeks later I found a plastic bag with a beaten up box hanging from my mail box. The plastic bag had "we are very sorry" printed on it. Believe on not the plant was still alive and continues to grow in my tank. When ever I look at the plant I think of its strength to live after surviving weeks in a tattered box.
Mr. Reader (March 24th, 2016), ThriveToScribe (June 7th, 2016)
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