At 08:48 PM 28/11/2001 -0800, Mark Lloyd wrote:
[snip]
>Then I got some superglue and a couple of friends very willing to help me and
>went down to a
>local demolition project that had a lot of nice heavy
>cinderblocks. I selected the choicest, heaviest ones,
>all 40 pounds or over. I took the superglue and glued
>those wonderful "First Class-Postage to be Paid by
>Addresse" Envelopes and pasted them to the blocks.
>Then I lugged them over to the Post Office and mailed
>the wonderful things. The Postal Workers were laughing
>their asses off as I hauled in dolly after dolly of
>cinderblocks. See for each block good old Providian
>had to pay over $60.00 US in postage (the most
>expensive was $347.00 for one 116 pound block) and I
>had over 2000 pounds of blocks (thank god for pickup
>trucks and hand trucks). Cost to me... 15.00 of glue
>and gas and a couple of hours of moving and pasting
>and elbow grease. Cost to the scumbags at Providian...
>over $15,000 dollars.
I tip my hat to you, sir. *EIGHTY-THREE*? What were those boneheads thinking?
Garth
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