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On 5/14/2024 at 9:39 AM, Hepcat said:

Are there no women posting on this forum? I can't believe that Alfred E. Neuman hasn't received prominent mention in this thread until now.

A recent sighting of Alfred E. Neuman shows that he has aged a bit-

That does seem ridiculous. Sounds like your local postmaster operates with an Iron Fist, or is Ham-Handed.

On 5/3/2024 at 9:21 AM, CGC Mike said:

I believe so.  However, I have a box at my residence.  If we go away and they hold my  mail, I can't pick it up when I get back.  There have been a few other times when I needed to pick up my mail and was denied by the postal rep.

That's weird. My wife works at the post office, whenever we go on vacation she puts a hold on our mail and when we return we go to a local distribution site (not a retail P.O.) and pick it up. Have you checked to see if your local P.O. offers this service?

On 5/2/2024 at 6:52 PM, CGC Mike said:

No, we are not in a hub type area.  We have asked multiple times and were told that no mail can be picked up.  It all has to be delivered.  I remember looking up the rules, and it seemed like they were breaking that one.

will they let you open up a PO Box?

On 5/1/2024 at 1:33 PM, seanlinc said:

 I did have a lady open the door once with an open bathrobe and ask me to come inside. 

On 5/1/2024 at 8:39 AM, MattTheDuck said:

Delivering the Valley Times was my first job.  I "inherited" the route from the older kid who had it when he asked me if I wanted it.  I learned a lot about myself, including that I had an unreasoning fear of large, aggressive dogs who liked to chase bikes.  I don't know if this was a common practice, but I had to collect once a month from everyone on my route rather than the subscribers paying directly to the paper.  I think it was $0.35 a month.  That's how I found out I was too shy to ask people for money or overcome objections and would never be a successful salesman.

Valley Times? In Beaverton? I was a paper boy for the Community Press for 2 months. Suffered through the same anxiety as you did, however the Press was voluntary payments so I had many people chewing me out saying they were not going to pay and why was I dropping it off at their house in the first place? On my last day delivering I dumped all of my papers in a vacant lot.

Thanks Matt!

How would I go about changing the delivery address for my returned submissions? Would it be when I create the submission form or would I have to contact FedEx directly? I am asking because the last 2 submissions that I have received have been dropped off at my house, one on the driveway and the latest one on the front porch with no signature. I work days while my wife works nights, we have a dog that barks loudly when anyone arrives at the front door, yet the packages have been dropped off without her signature and that kind of defeats the idea of the signature required shipment. What should I do?

Taylor vs Dr. Zaius.

On 4/3/2024 at 7:24 PM, zach1900 said:

Sadly that's not true, 14/15 post offices completely failed their audits in regards to registered mail...lost keys, leaving cages unlocked during and after business hours, ALL post offices failed to keep accurate logs, registered mail being handed off with no signatures nor required ID, and the list goes on and on.

I wouldn't say that all post offices are guilty of this, my wife is a supervisor at a major sorting plant and is is certainly not the case there. Any registered mail I have ever received has required an adult signature, unlike a package from CGC sent via FedX that was left on my driveway with no signature, at least no one who lives at my address.

Registered mail has a chain of custody; everyone who touches it must sign for it and it is locked up in the facilities during transit. Yes it does take longer, I shipped some books to CGC on 3-23-24 and they arrived at the facility on 4-2-24.

Looks like it was a long day

On 2/2/2024 at 4:30 PM, HighGrade said:

That immediately reminded me of that scene in New Jack City, pictured with grading comics...🤣

That's what I was thinking.

On 2/2/2024 at 1:12 PM, ExNihilo said:

The solution seems rather simple: all employees are strip searched before and after entering the designated grading/holdering room.  

If CGC were a cartel they could require all of their employees to work in the nude.

On 2/1/2024 at 1:41 PM, bluehorseshoe said:

You show me one person that can demonstrate damages as a result of buying a fake-slabbed book for more than a buck, and I'll show you a bunch of complex litigation attorneys putting together a class action Petition against CGC chock full of claims related to implied warranty and lack of good faith performance causes of action.

CGC is going to get the brakes sued off of them. 

bluehorseshoe loves Bluestar Airlines.

On 1/25/2024 at 3:23 PM, Black_Adam said:

Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #68!

Bought it off a comic rack for a quarter (my weekly allowance) from a little book store that I only visited once when I was seven years old (the store was out of business after only a few months and even now, decades later, I still recall it when I drive past where it once was).

The story was great! Richie and Cadbury are shrunk and have to escape a human body. I learned a lot about anatomy (and antibodies) from that comic and gained a lifelong passion for comics, reading, and Richie Rich!   

So Richie went on a Fantastic Voyage!

On 12/4/2023 at 5:52 PM, Silver Surfer said:

What exactly is Robin doing?

Tossin' the Salad.

Looks like what the printing world calls a "hickey", caused by any number of foreign objects i.e. dust, water small pieces of rubber from rollers, etc....

A new garbage disposal....

I would leave it as-is. I recently had my copy of FF #13 graded and it came out as 5.5, but in my MHO is better looking than this 6.0.

I've got one of those-

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