[SEL] Nov. GEM

[Orrin Iseminger]

If it's any comfort, may I suggest it's a problem with the USPS?  

We recently received a letter from Lowell Wagner.  I wondered why he should
be getting in touch because the two of us didn't have any deals hanging.  

So, I opened the envelope (It had already been ripped open and taped shut,
again.) and inside was a letter advising that Classic Tractors would be
featuring the 2005 Arizona Flywheelers Show.  

The problem was, the broadcast had been a month earlier.  I looked at the
postmark and, sure enough, the letter had been out there in limbo for over a
month.  

A week ago we got the cover to a catalog in the mail.  That's it, just the
cover.  All the pages in between were gone.  

Yesterday, we got a JC Whitney catalog--sort of.  We got half the pages.
Oh, all the pages were there, all right, but only the half of the page
closest to the spine was there.  It looked like it had a near miss with a
paper shredder.  

The Model A Ford Club of America hasn't started packaging their "Restorer"
in plastic, yet.  Too bad.  Almost every issue we get is ripped and creased
in one hopeless way or another.  

Your GEM?  Most likely it's either shredded to dust or on top of somebody
else's night stand.  

Orrin

Orrin Iseminger
Colton, Washington, USA
http://users.moscow.com/oiseming/lc_ant_p/index.htm
So many projects.  So little time.   

-----Original Message-----
From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
[mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com] On Behalf Of Judge Tommy
Turner
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 6:20 PM
To: The SEL email discussion list
Subject: Re: [SEL] Nov. GEM

Bob,

    My neighbor gets the GEM at the book rate rather than first class.  
I've been getting it first class for probably 25 years.  My neighbor got 
his on Nov. 18.  With mine being first class it should have arrived at 
least a week before his.  I've had several first class recipients tell 
me there's hasn't arrived.  I don't know what's going on but we pay 
about twice the rate to get the first class postage for GEM yet the book 
rate arrives first???   My guess its on GEM's end.  I'll email Richard 
Backus.

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY



Bob Bushorr wrote:

> This is for Bill and anybody that is having a serious problem with 
> mail delivery. I work for the Post Office and know that sometimes 
> there are problems that will delay the mail a few days. But 10 days to 
> go 15 miles is not acceptable at all.



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