I received an envelope in the mail. Neatly stamped, but closed with clear packing tape on the back.
The envelope came from Burlington, Wisconsin.
I opened it to find NOTHING inside, not even an indication of anything having been in there!
If it was from a member here, please PM me and tell me about it.

Serveral years ago we had my aunt, Olive ( Blair ) O'Brian, staying with us , untill she passed.
Some years after she passed , we got a letter in the mail, addressed to Octivia O,Brian from Olivia
Blair. The first 2 numbers of the house were the same as yours, the street name was wrong. and the last 2 numbers of the zip code were the same as ours. But it was to go to Ontario Calif not
Ortonville Mich

Go figure

Ray 

Quote from: Papaw on March 23, 2012, 07:48:19 PM
I received an envelope in the mail. Neatly stamped, but closed with clear packing tape on the back.
The envelope came from Burlington, Wisconsin.
I opened it to find NOTHING inside, not even an indication of anything having been in there!
If it was from a member here, please PM me and tell me about it.

You just think there was nothin inside, thats how they getcha :)

On a tangental note, I am now breathing a sigh of relief and so is Lauver.  I had sold him a vintage maroon Matco phillips screwdriver for like $10(18" long, so apparently SIZE does matter), packed it in a 3" mailing tube and sent it through a grocery store outlet for the USPS.  This was back in mid February.  It just now got there this past week.  I should let Lauver tell the rest of the story about all the reroute stampings etc.,  but I will likely not pack anything in a cylindrical shaped container in the future.  For all those weeks it was MIA, I was thinking that it had rolled out of the back of some mail truck only to be rusting away in some ditch or gutter somewhere.

We had as recently as Thursday checked with the local USPS office and there's nothing they could do. We had also checked at the grocery store to make sure it wasn't lying on the floor there(acording to them, it wouldn't have been the first time).   All the Iowa lost stuff goes to Atlanta(even though Minneapolis has a dead mail facility too,.....go figure).

With all the Post Office's troubles over the past few decades, I must say that the crew at the Cedar Falls 50613 building are awesome public servants and I wouldn't trade them for any Post Office in the coutry.  They even laugh at my jokes.

Sleeping better now,

DM&FS

Like they always say it is the thought that counts, so I guess somebody was thinking of you...

Ahh...that's what was in the envelope...a thought....

some where on some  nice clean desk there lies a small tool. or more realistic some where in a pile of papers and junk on someones desk lies a small tool  bob w.

Perhaps it was one of the give aways that you didn't win?

QuotePerhaps it was one of the give aways that you didn't win?

That must be it!

Probably from someone on "that OTHER forum"

I have posted the same on Garage Gazette.

By the way- there is no need to hide other forum names here. Tool Talk has no argument with anyone.

 One time a buddy needed a couple of screws.
They were unavailable anywhere. So I had to make them.  Tiny things under 1/4" long and size #2 or #0 maybe? Anyway I had longer screws with a different head so I had to machine the heads and cut them down.
Well I taped them to cardboard and brought the envelope to the PO and paid extra for hand stamping and watched my postmistress hand stamp them.
But apparently, when it got to TX they ran it through an automatic machine anyway, regardless of how it was marked.

The empty envelope showed up without a scratch,
except a very small hole in the side.
The heavy rollers must have rolled them right out and nothing anyone would notice. Probably never even saw them in the dustpan when the building was swept.
sigh
yours Scott