LOL! Let us know if there's ever a response, or confirmation that they got the
stuff...
Larry
Garth Wood wrote:
> 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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