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EricaJoy
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When your username is a stronger password than your password is, its time to reevaluate whether or not you should be using a computer.
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I am a firm believer in requiring a special license to use the Internet. Siegel and Canter would hopefully not have passed.
- Adam Lasnik
http://brizzly.com/pic/H1Z http://brizzly.com/pic/H1Y Oh brizzly, you slay me!
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Learn Your Damn Homophones! http://learnyourdamnhomophones.com/ PLEASE RETWEET!
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Its tough too loose you're mind seeing this stuff. Can't hardly bare it.
- Louis Gray
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- EricaJoy
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WHAT THE SHIT USPS? : USPS says its going to stop sending letters to Santa to the North Pole - http://www.ktuu.com/Global...
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"The Mayor of North Pole, Alaska is calling it an assault on Christmas after the United States Postal Service says it's going to stop sending letters to Santa Claus in the Interior Alaska town. According to a U.S. Postal Service Spokesperson for the Northwest region of the country, there is a new policy in place for letters to Santa Claus in North Pole, Alaska. When asked what will happen to the letters, Ernie Swanson, said in many cases, nothing. "It won't be responded to, it won't be processed it won't be handled it'll just be set aside and presumably put in a recycling bin or something like that."
- EricaJoy
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Ow! My freakin' ears!
- Louis Gray
Some background: Around the holiday tons of letters to santa, oftentimes marked "Santa Claus, North Pole" would be delivered to the North Pole, AK post office (99705, woot!). The Post Office would then take batches of those letters and distribute them to area high schools so high schoolers could volunteer to respond as Santa Claus or the responses would be an assignment in creative writing class or some such. Anyway, lots of kids would get responses to their letters from Santa.
- EricaJoy
Given the USPS' budget problems, I can understand that. But it's still sad.
- Spidra Webster
Now these letters to Santa are just going to go into a recycle bin, never to be responded to or acknowledged. This will decrease the magic of Christmas for the kids writing to Santa and the people who enjoyed writing the responses. So uncool.
- EricaJoy
I am not convinced that this small area of time in an otherwise slow post office is even a speck on the USPS' overall budget. North Pole has ~2,000 residents so that post office isn't seeing much action for the rest of the year. (Aside: Damn, I really did live in a VERY small town.)
- EricaJoy
Also, sorry Louis, I am just a skosh outraged right now.
- EricaJoy
Wait. So the USPS takes properly stamped letters, addressed to an existing town with a real zip code, and throws them away?
- Tudor Bosman
Usually they have a stamp but sometimes random kid just writes a letter and puts it in a mailbox with "Santa Claus, North Pole" on it with no stamp. USPS used to deliver those too.
- EricaJoy
EricaJoy, it's not just that small post office. It's every post office that gets a letter addressed merely to "Santa" and has to send it on its way. And most post offices are crazy busy during the holidays.
- Spidra Webster
How come he's not railing against global warming melting the north pole? :-)
- Piaw Na
If the mail has a stamp and a return address then I have a big problem with them simply throwing it away. Treat it like any letter with an insufficient address and return it to sender. Otherwise the USPS is just pocketing your money and throwing away your letter and that seems pretty illegal to me.
- Kevin Fox
I agree with that. I thought they were talking about unstamped letters kids toss into mailboxes.
- Spidra Webster
I agree with Kevin. If it has a stamp, it needs to be delivered somewhere, even if it's a return to sender. I do understand them not delivering letters with no postage, even if it's not the most holiday spirited thing to do.
- Georgia Diehl
stamp = sent to destination! that should be the end of the story!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I think it's outrageous that the USPS has been a willing participant of mail fraud up to this point, but the easy solution for people who want to continue to perpetrate this ruse would be to start a local business called "Santa Claus" or have some idiot change his name and get a post office box.
- Seth
I was waiting for that response. You sir, have played the role of Grinch of Christmas Past. Waiting for Grinch of Christmas Present and Future.
- EricaJoy
I say jail the decision-makers (on Christmas Day) for getting rid of properly paid-for mail.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Hooray! I'm a Dr Seuss character! :)
- Seth
RT @keyinfluencer: My Root Canal......yikes! (Broadcasting live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel...)
I wonder how much money is made by a video airing on MTV...wait MTV doesn't do music anymore...VH1 then...wait they do bad reality. Um BET?
Sweet, congrats on the move to brizzly @bendarnell!
Erica is glad $BOYFRIEND has good friends that will help him paint.
That is hilaaaaarious! RT @dewitt: Possibly the best commercial ever made: http://vimeo.com/7667665. (Via @kfury)
Food Network & Google Celebrate Thanksgiving - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Here is Alton Brown's talk from today. The Q&A with @marissamayer was funny so I'm linking directly to that portion: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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@AltonBrownFan @AltonBrownNews: Here's one of my shots of Alton Brown at Google. No word on the YT vid yet. :( http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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