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Person goes "postal" when mail delivery is too late
A Chicago mail carrier was shot in the leg, reportedly by a person upset that the mail was being delivered too late. The incident happened at 6:30 p.m. (Chicago Tribune | (Chicago Sun-Times)
November 14, 2007 | Permalink
Comments
That's definitely way too late. Completely justified.
Posted by: sometimesilie | Nov 14, 2007 6:31:06 AM
how does the saying go?..."through rain, snow, sleet, leg wounds...."
Posted by: jimmyjohn | Nov 14, 2007 6:33:05 AM
Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep the postmen from their appointed rounds. But a bullet to the leg will do the trick.
Posted by: G-Man | Nov 14, 2007 6:33:39 AM
that is definitely a twist on the phrase "going postal".
Its a government run agency, you'd think citizens would be used to inconsistant service by now.
Posted by: Cherie | Nov 14, 2007 6:34:30 AM
Well, he's not going to be any faster now...
Looking at my mailbox every day, I can't see myself getting POd that my bills and the 13 credit card offers, and catalogs are arriving late.
Posted by: stopeatingmysesamecake | Nov 14, 2007 6:45:47 AM
Sesame - Going off topic here, but if you go to https://www.optoutprescreen.com/ and sign up you can probably reduce the amount of credit card offers you get (it won't completely stop unless you shoot your postman in the leg). It's a legit site run by the credit bureaus.
Posted by: G-Man | Nov 14, 2007 6:53:38 AM
An old friend has a neurotic Doberman. The dog didn't care what time mail was delivered, but he'd wait all day in the hope of getting a piece of the carrier. He knew how to hurry them along.
Posted by: thomas | Nov 14, 2007 7:37:18 AM
I have a wonderful postman, but whenever he's gone there's trouble. The worst was at my mother's house where one week this mail lady would drive by in a station wagon, open the door, her son would run out and deliver the mail, then hop back in the car and she'd drive 20 ft next door and he'd do it again. Same thing happened the next day. Then Wednesday. I called the police and she never came back.
Posted by: DCer | Nov 14, 2007 7:39:06 AM
I have lovely well-tempered chow. In all his years he has had but one true desire--to nail the Evil Guy who comes to the door Almost Every Day and rattles the mail box.
When the 17 pesonalities decided to move east there was much disorganization and said darling dog managed to escape and chase the Evil Guy off the property, down the street, and into his van thus achieving his life long ambition. It took me and two other people to drag the dog off the mail truck--the postal worker was scared, but not hurt, and very glad that we were moving
For those of you who have never met a chow, they make a snarling noise not unlike some scifi monster clawing its way out the deepest reaches of hell and have a bark that can be heard in three counties. They will bite, and given a running start can knock down a adult. They are one person dogs and view interlopers as food on the hoof. Or possibily communists.
Posted by: NellAgain | Nov 14, 2007 7:50:11 AM
NellAgain ,
I have a theory about *one man dog* owners that has nothing to do with the animal's admirable though high maintainance qualities. Thanks to you and the Fab 17, das theorum iss kaput. I sense an oxymoron. Can you help with my conundrum?
Posted by: thomas | Nov 14, 2007 8:06:46 AM
I used to know a fellow who was unfortunate enough (he shoulda wore a condom) to become involved with a woman who would become apoplectic and call the local post office SCREAMING if her welfare check didn't arrive on the day she was expecting it. To be fair, though, it's understandable that she wasn't thinking clearly. She had no money for bingo, after all, and was going through withdrawal.
Posted by: Dave | Nov 14, 2007 8:10:50 AM
Nell, my whateverthehellheis sounds as if he's part Rottie, part Doberman, and part hound of hell, but he's actually a sweet (if bouncy) dog. He stares out the window when our mail carrier is due and proceeds to go bawagas when he sees him. However, it's not the mail carrier he's really after--it's the two bone-shaped cookies that I invariably find just inside the box. (Damn dog is too smart for his own good!)
Posted by: d'ep | Nov 14, 2007 8:13:18 AM
Chows might be a special case. They are a spitz type dog originating in northern China and were the original junkyard utilitarian dog. They guarded the compound, herded (via body checking and heeling), ran off pachers, pulled sleds and carts, lived on scraps and were harvested for meat and fur.
Freud, who lived in an apartment in Vienna, had several chows and they would occasionally hang out with the patients during therapy, going so far as to jump up on the couch and try to nudge them off (which mean full body pressure and a low rolling growl). So its possible that as a breed have an affinity for dealing with the disturbed.
Posted by: NellAgain | Nov 14, 2007 8:20:53 AM
On a note of common sense, we are talking about CHICAGO--home of the worst mail service in the US. Well documented. Poor slob was probably taking over another route on top of his own; it's been known to happen. Do your own route & then do this guy's, because he didn't come in.
And of course it's dark at 6:30--we're on regular time now, friends!
Posted by: Dee | Nov 14, 2007 8:43:50 AM
If you find too many credit card offers in your mail, might I suggest sending back the offer (unsigned of course) with a picture of a burn victim or a particularly horrific car crash dropped inside.
I find it has done wonders in reducing the amount of junk mail I receive.
Posted by: KDP | Nov 14, 2007 9:52:22 AM
I've long advocated that postal carriers should be armed to protect themselves against the loser leeches whose only monthly exertion is to cash their monthly goverment checks.
Posted by: Dick Tater | Nov 14, 2007 10:22:00 AM
Our mail used to come late too. It turns out our mail carrier was turning tricks when she was supposed to be delivering the mail. Talk about playing Post Office.
Posted by: Scooter Trash | Nov 14, 2007 11:43:57 AM
I know this will sound stupid but what is this "mail" that you speak of?
Posted by: yucca | Nov 14, 2007 2:58:25 PM
Some of you need to try carrying mail. Preferably while I'm sitting there watching you and LMAO.
Posted by: Jim | Nov 14, 2007 4:35:59 PM
I don't know why they don't just let the Jehovahs Witnesses deliver the mail.
Posted by: many | Nov 14, 2007 5:50:08 PM
By the way, for anyone who cares--there is legislation afoot for a "Do Not Mail List" similar to the (totally unconstitutional but totally essential) "Do Not Call List"
Posted by: NellAgain | Nov 15, 2007 6:29:36 AM
