1 Mar
2001
1 Mar
'01
10:41 p.m.
Hmm, if it was shipped USPS, there is a department that warehouses all of
that unreturnable and unforwardable mail.. read about it in Smithsonian
once.. they even had some guy's ashes on the shelf, and due to that article,
the family who was related to him was able to contact the USPS and retrieve
his remains..
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2 Mar
2 Mar
4:35 a.m.
Hmm, if it was shipped USPS, there is a department that
warehouses all of
that unreturnable and unforwardable mail.. read about it in Smithsonian
once.. they even had some guy's ashes on the shelf, and due to that article,
the family who was related to him was able to contact the USPS and retrieve
his remains..
OTOH twice a year the regional dead letter places have an auction.
4:47 a.m.
The story that I heard (Stan Veit's book?) was that it was shipped via
REA (Railway Express Agancy?) and was in transit when the REA employees
went on strike. Apparently the strike was the death knell of REA so the
package was never delivered. Also when REA went under, everything was
dumped instead of being shipped to a dead letter office. My guess is that
THE original Altair ended up in a scrap yard somewhere between New Mexico
and NYC.
Joe
At 05:41 AM 3/2/01 -0700, you wrote:
Hmm, if it was shipped USPS, there is a department that
warehouses all of
that unreturnable and unforwardable mail.. read about it in Smithsonian
once.. they even had some guy's ashes on the shelf, and due to that article,
the family who was related to him was able to contact the USPS and retrieve
his remains..
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