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Date: | Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:32:00 -0500 |
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>> We often forget that we have the best and cheapest postal service in
>> the world. (Granted, Chicago is a big exception.) ...
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>Getting old and becoming a curmudgeon *
Another anecdote speaking well not so much of our postal service as our
confidence in it.
After speaking in Australia in 1984 about Ellis Island, the restoration of
which I managed architects and engineers, I received a letter from Sydney
simply addressed to: Jim Rhodes...Statue of Liberty. Through clever
perception on Liberty Island, I got it.
Another story not particularly related to anything but overstatement,
remember the joke of the three pizza shops on one block in New York. The
first pizza shop had a sign in the window: BEST PIZZA IN THE WORLD! There
were two people inside. The second pizza shop had a sign in the window:
BEST PIZZA IN THE UNIVERSE!! There were three people inside. The third
pizza shop had a line of people halfway down the street and a sign in the
window: BEST PIZZA ON THE BLOCK.
Botta-boom! --Jim
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