Postal monopoly
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 16 08:58:32 CST 2007
monte.davis
> It wasn't just W.A.S.T.E. that seemed totally cool. Until the day in winter
> 1967 when classmate Dick Feith shoved the college library's copy of COL49 at
> me and threatened my life if I didn't read it *right now*, I'd taken postal
> service as a public monopoly for granted. I'd never put together bits and
> pieces I knew about the Pony Express, kindly old Ben Franklin, Inca runners,
> the Penny Black, etc., etc. into the "simple" historical fact that postal
> service *hadn't* always been that way.
>
Well, I, as sure as taxes, never suspected it might have been different either.
A-and....I heard this guy once on the radio throw out this puzzle challenge.
You and someone else, nothing about each other known to either of you, are
"dropped' into a major city known to neither of you. Your job is to find each other.
What do YOU do to make this happen possibly?
Do I have to give the answer?
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