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Jan. 5th, 2008 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogMaybe now I understand why the Post Office failed to deliver no fewer than three significant items of mine, inbound and outbound, in the month of December, including our mortgage payment and at least two incoming checks to my office:
The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General has confirmed that an employee from the Amherst Post Office was arrested for theft of mail. Apryl M. Silvashy, a part-time letter carrier, was arrested on Dec. 19 and accused of stealing mail. She has been released.
That was in this past Tuesday's local weekly, the Amherst Bee. However, it was not the most famous crime story to make the Killer Bee (as we used to call them when they did our law school paper's press run) in recent weeks. That would be this one, which made a bottom-of-the-column filler in the New Yorker as part of its long-running Constabulary Notes From All Over feature:
“A Lamarck Drive resident reported that a bat was sleeping in his basement. It was actually a black sock.”
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Since I have sent potentially stolen mailpieces in the past coupla weeks (but no bats, nor, for that matter, any socks), please do check in when your items arrive.
The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General has confirmed that an employee from the Amherst Post Office was arrested for theft of mail. Apryl M. Silvashy, a part-time letter carrier, was arrested on Dec. 19 and accused of stealing mail. She has been released.
That was in this past Tuesday's local weekly, the Amherst Bee. However, it was not the most famous crime story to make the Killer Bee (as we used to call them when they did our law school paper's press run) in recent weeks. That would be this one, which made a bottom-of-the-column filler in the New Yorker as part of its long-running Constabulary Notes From All Over feature:
“A Lamarck Drive resident reported that a bat was sleeping in his basement. It was actually a black sock.”
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Since I have sent potentially stolen mailpieces in the past coupla weeks (but no bats, nor, for that matter, any socks), please do check in when your items arrive.
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Date: 2008-01-06 07:49 am (UTC)We had some hilarious Campus Safety reports in the Ithacan when I wrote for it. Things like smoldering piles of mulch being reported near residences almost every week. Turns out we did a story about how they were changing the type of mulch they were using on campus because the original kind was to flamable due to cigarettes being thrown on it. I'm sure whoever got to write that story had an AMAZING time and didn't fall asleep at their desk at all.