Fish 4 all - your jigs came just fine. Got to give you a AAA+ for all your efforts on the crochet work - uff-da!!

Yesterdays mail brought 1 package - from Attica Fish - safe and sound - well - maybe a little frost bit, it was about -5F when I got the mail....

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I did get to town yesterday, and had a chat w/ our Post-mistress - Barb G. After showing her Len's package - both inner and outer, comparing the stamps (order and denomination), and her eyeballing the outer envelope, she said she would "forgive" the $.10 postage due. More on this in a bit.....

Then we took a look at DR Fish's envelope. She immediately pointed out that DR used some postal service software called Click-N-Ship for his postage - the post office generated labels are differant in appearance.

Barb went on to explain that all packages that use Click-N-Ship are weighed - at least once and some times multiple times. She eye-balled the 'Postage Due' stamp, and said that it didn't match the stamp they use in our local post office - so it was likely weighed in Indianna (where DR is located), or possibly in Minneapolis, which is the distribution center where our (Hayfield, MN) mail comes from.

The reason for weighing the Click-N-Ships is that they (postal service) have found that most scales used by Click-N-Ship users are off w/ regard to getting package weights correct, and the postage as a result.

So I paid her the $.34 for DR's package, and then she says "I'll pay that other $.10 out of my pocket..." "Huh????????????????" I says....

Barb then explained that Postmasters are personally responsible for the the value of all postage/cash, etc. Since she "forgave" the $.10, it had to come from somewhere....I then tryed to pay her, and we got in to a pushing match across the counter - I pushed her the dime, she'd shake her head, and push it back .... did this 2-3 times and gave up.

Bottom line - the Federal gov. / postal service is going to "get theirs" no matter what....

I felt "cheap" after I learned all that. It's one thing to argue the point w/ a faceless-nameless federal entity - its another thing when you've known the lady for several years, etc. Thank You Barb!! I owe you!

UG