[TheForge] OT, but I Just have to ask...

[Andrew Vida]

I may have to try this one day, just to make the vermin squirm.

Phlip wrote:
> Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
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> 
>>>Phone your congressman.  The USA still has no legal requirement for
>>>carrying ID.  They may SAY you need ID to get mail, but they don't get
>>>to decide what ID is appropriate.  How would you EVER get mail at
>>>somebody else's address (a perfectly legal thing to do) with nonsense
>>>like this going on?
>>
>>Oh, I asked that precise question.  The response the autmaton gave was
>>that I would have to get the person that lived there to come with me to
>>pick it up.  Idiocy has come to a new definition.
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> 
> That's the point at which you call the police, explain to the officer that
> the post office employee is unlawfully depriving you of your mail, and that
> you want a police report filed for the benefit of the Federal Marshals, who
> will be called in. You also, in front of the officer, request a written
> explanation as to WHY you were deprived of your mail, for presentation to
> the local Postmaster and hir superiors. The cop then becomes your de facto
> witness. If it's a local PO policy, you then have evidence of a conspiracy,
> which will generate all sorts of PITA paperwork for all involved, and will
> likely cause the policy to be rather abruptly changed.
> 
> What most people don't realize, is that the same bureaucracy bullshit that
> they pull on us can be turned around and cause the bereaucrat far more
> difficulty than what they tried to do to you ;-)
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
> 
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> 
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