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Sunday
2006-07-14 4:28:07 PM  
Well there's something that only happens about four times a year in Chicago.
 
HAL_lives
2006-07-14 4:37:10 PM  
Newman!
 
Not Available
2006-07-14 4:45:00 PM  
When you control the mail, you control...Information!
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-07-14 5:00:51 PM  
Wonder if the guy's name is Cliff and his friend's name is Norm.
 
MixMasterMadge
2006-07-14 5:04:29 PM  
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NikolaiFarkoff [TotalFark]
2006-07-14 5:06:07 PM  
Neumann

/it's german
 
editorinquief
2006-07-14 6:00:02 PM  
That, farkers, is a mail whore.
 
Some Texan
2006-07-14 6:01:46 PM  
World Cup had him a little preoccupied, perhaps.
 
storduff
2006-07-14 6:02:18 PM  
NikolaiFarkoff

I was coming in here to post the same thing, you beat me to it.
 
Scubachisteve
2006-07-14 6:02:50 PM  
I recall something similar being posted a few days ago.

Repost? or is a Trifecta in play?
 
OregonVet
2006-07-14 6:05:44 PM  
NikolaiFarkoff
Neumann

/it's german


Newman. It's correct.

/not a nazi
 
TheSpaceAdmiral
2006-07-14 6:05:48 PM  
A Berlin postal worker who was caught with more than several thousand undelivered letters in his basement has admitted he was overwhelmed by the job but insisted he planned to deliver them soon.

What the hell does "more than several thousand" mean?
 
heinousjay
2006-07-14 6:05:58 PM  
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Weasel3322
2006-07-14 6:06:01 PM  
Newman!
 
Kar98
2006-07-14 6:09:55 PM  
Moist von Lipwig refused to comment.
 
Helen_Arigby
2006-07-14 6:10:00 PM  
Moist von Lipwig.
 
Helen_Arigby
2006-07-14 6:10:46 PM  
Damn my clumsy fingers, that necessitate hitting Backspace and retyping everything!
 
scseth
2006-07-14 6:12:09 PM  
Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out, but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publisher's Clearing House day!
 
The_Y2P_Problem
2006-07-14 6:12:48 PM  
Some postman is grooving to all my love letters?
 
Scubachisteve
2006-07-14 6:12:50 PM  
Does anyone else notice how this whole site goes to sleep around 3:00PST everyday? Guess all the heavy submitters are stuck in rushhour back east. . .

/bored at work
 
baby_hewey
2006-07-14 6:14:20 PM  
I think that this issue and the thread before it might be related. Mail or Pot? Smoke a joint or deliver mail? Dude!
 
cdnbeaver
2006-07-14 6:15:05 PM  
TheSpaceAdmiral

I wondered the exact same thing. "...more than several thousand..." ... which is... several thousands? They must be thousandaires... or at least hundredaires.
 
Some Texan
2006-07-14 6:17:40 PM  
Scubachisteve : Yup, at 5:00 Central
 
nytmare
2006-07-14 6:18:42 PM  
I was coming in here to post the same thing, you beat me to it.

Is this about the most useless comment on Fark or what.
 
ClipJoint
2006-07-14 6:19:03 PM  
JERRY: (Takes out his key to unlock the unit door) Where is your key?

KRAMER: Yeah, well, uh, Newman. He's - he's got it.

JERRY: You know, Kramer, I rented out half of my space to you.

KRAMER: Yeah, and I rented out half that space to Newman. (Starts coughing again)

(Jerry opens the door, mail bags start spilling out of the unit)

JERRY: (Picks one up) Mail bags? He's storing mail in here?

KRAMER: (Looks at the bags on the floor) Evidently.
 
Confoundit
2006-07-14 6:22:14 PM  
NikolaiFarkoff:
Neumann
/it's german

OregonVet:
Newman. It's correct.
/not a nazi

... the joke being that this guy is the German equivalent of Newman, thus "Neumann."
 
Monimania
2006-07-14 6:23:26 PM  
I sent a package from my friend in Germany and they never got it , hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
 
scseth
2006-07-14 6:24:05 PM  
nytmare: Is this about the most useless comment on Fark or what.

I was just about to say that!
 
Lilac_Sash
2006-07-14 6:26:32 PM  
I just knew that Moist von Lipwig was going to get referenced in this thread...

/S.W.A.L.K
// Yay, Pratchett!
 
Some Texan
2006-07-14 6:28:35 PM  
Confoundit : Is that you, Captain Obvious!?!
 
Hoblit [TotalFark]
2006-07-14 6:30:45 PM  
I swear this is going to happen in Tampa soon. I have had several problems with mail here in my neighborhood. (Hyde Park) Once a friend of mine said something snarky to me because I didn't thank her for a christmas card she sent me.

I never got that christmas card.

I've had problems not getting checks, bills..etc...
 
FormlessOne
2006-07-14 6:38:00 PM  
Helen_Arigby: Beat me to it.

And, I have to say, Lord Vetinari is one of my favorite literary characters.

"Do not let me detain you."
 
vwfst55
2006-07-14 6:38:31 PM  
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
 
kaliniromus
2006-07-14 6:40:33 PM  
My mother lives in Germany and sends me stuff once in a while.

One time she was sending me something with some value (a pool cue if I remember correctly) and so wanted to insure it. The post person refused to insure it as they won't insure things in Germany. She actually asked my mom 'What you actually expect everything to arrive at the destination?'

Incredible. They charge a ton of money for mailing things there too. 1 Euro for a postcard and something like 3 Euros for a letter.

/SA 1-800-\\\-////
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-07-14 6:43:55 PM  
TheSpaceAdmiral: What the hell does "more than several thousand" mean?

Means there's at least one incompetent hack at Yahoo who can't string two sentences together coherently.
 
StrikitRich
2006-07-14 6:50:25 PM  
Hmmm, been wondering where my last couple of Playboys were.
 
donquixote235
2006-07-14 6:55:12 PM  
Hm, for some reason I read that as German posthuman. That sounds creepy.
 
picturescrazy
2006-07-14 7:03:46 PM  
I've read about this type of thing happening several times. What the hell? Why does it happen? Is that work really that stressful? I thought all the crazies were the ones who did the sorting.
 
The Voice of Doom
2006-07-14 7:11:12 PM  
kaliniromus
Incredible. They charge a ton of money for mailing things there too. 1 Euro for a postcard and something like 3 Euros for a letter.

That price is international air mail for BIG letters; a normal (national) letter costs 56 Cents, international 1.70.
Insurance should also be possible (don't know if that has always been the case).
Hint: if your mom knows the right call-by-call numbers, she can call you for 1 cent/minute (assuming you are in the US).
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2006-07-14 7:31:32 PM  
A Berlin postal worker who was caught with more than several thousand undelivered letters in his basement has admitted he was overwhelmed by the job

because the mail Never STOPS!! It just keeps coming, and coming..
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2006-07-14 7:36:40 PM  
donquixote235

>>Hm, for some reason I read that as German posthuman.

What would that be? Some kind of "super" man?

What an un-German concept.

/just kidding, Germany.
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2006-07-14 7:42:32 PM  
scseth

dammit I suck.

/darwining out of thread now
//clicky clicky... someone post something so I'm not tripling up here
///fark it
////-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/slashy
 
Neumahn
2006-07-14 8:57:09 PM  
I really was planning to deliver it, but it was raining.
 
Damba
2006-07-14 9:04:44 PM  
The postal worker faces disciplinary action.

Because we wouldn't want to fire anybody or anything, that might hurt their feelings.

Or prevent other people from storing mail in their houses...
 
Neumahn
2006-07-14 9:12:19 PM  
Hello Jerry.
 
techmaniac
2006-07-14 9:59:11 PM  
He'll never get that transfer to Hawaii.
 
xoddam
2006-07-14 10:21:50 PM  
hahaha 420 on 420
 
Judd Nelson's Nostrils
2006-07-14 10:26:22 PM  
What's a little boy like you doing with big boy smut like this?
 
jayg22
2006-07-14 10:48:15 PM  
Newman: Zu viele Leute erhielten ihre Post. Nah an 80%. Niemanden knackte überhaupt die 50% Sperre.

Jerry: Ich versuchte mein bestes!

Newman: * genau *. Sie sind eine Schande zur uniform. [Newman zerreißt USPS Flecken weg des Mantels]

Jerry: Sie wissen, ist dieses Ihr Mantel.

Newman: [ Blicke auf heftig gezerrissenen Flecken ] Fluch.
 
Lee451
2006-07-15 12:30:27 AM  
[Scubachisteve:Does anyone else notice how this whole site goes to sleep around 3:00PST everyday? Guess all the heavy submitters are stuck in rushhour back east. . .]

My Fellow Farker, you have NO IDEA what traffic in the DC area is like at rush area. And every driving a car here is probably a lawyer or nutcase armed with a gun, so God forbid you have a "fender bender". Rush hour runs from approx 15:30=19:00 between DC and Fredericksburg, VA, where I live. Here are some links for your traffic cam viewing pleasure:
http://www.nbc4.com/trafficmaps/index.html

http://www.myfoxdc.com/myfox/pages/Traffic;jsessionid=EC025DC8F243300587B67A80 05F9CE92?pageId=10.1

Enjoy!
 
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