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What in the heck is up with the mail service in Park Slope (South)? I've never seen so many errors with delivery during my time in Brooklyn (15 years plus). I live in a two-family and we constantly get mail for people with addresses not really close to ours (we're on a street, we repeatedly get mail for people who live on avenues). I've lived in Greenpoint (two locations), Williamsburg & Sunnyside, Queens and have never experienced anything even remotely like it. It's pretty disturbing how wrong they get it repeatedly. Anyone else notice this? Our mail gets routed through the P.O. on 9th street. I don't even want to think about how much of my mail has ended up 17 blocks away...
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Posts: 9,622Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Shinybeast » What in the heck is up with the mail service in Park Slope (South)? I've never seen so many errors with delivery during my time in Brooklyn (15 years plus). I live in a two-family and we constantly get mail for people with addresses not really close to ours (we're on a street, we repeatedly get mail for people who live on avenues). I've lived in Greenpoint (two locations), Williamsburg & Sunnyside, Queens and have never experienced anything even remotely like it. It's pretty disturbing how wrong they get it repeatedly. Anyone else notice this? Our mail gets routed through the P.O. on 9th street. I don't even want to think about how much of my mail has ended up 17 blocks away...
Agh! Don't get me started! I'm in WT and my service sucks ass too. I often get mail for completely the wrong address, or for my neighbors, etc. I don't even get my mail until 4pm on most days! I swear to you (I meant to post this yesterday, but forgot) that I was walking down the street yesterday and was on either 16th or 15th just east of 7th Ave. and there were two of those green mailboxes (the kind where the carriers drop off and pick up mail) and I saw a pair of feet sticking out. Thinking "WTF is that?" I walked by and found the mail carrier SITTING COMPLETELY INSIDE the green mailbox eating a sandwich. I wish I had had my camera! Truly bizarre. Not to mention that my Netflix (and now Blockbuster) movies often end up disappearing (and there was a recent "sting operation" that found postal carriers stealing movies for either their own viewing or for sale). I personally know my carrier (been living here for 9 years), and my only complaint about him is the lateness. The sorting stuff I blame on the post office itself. -
Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Flexichick » I often get mail for completely the wrong address, or for my neighbors, etc. I don't even get my mail until 4pm on most days!
Same here (in the South Slope). I get mail for neighbors up and down my block, plus mail for people in completely different parts of Brooklyn. People have sent me mail that was returned to them marked "no such person at this address" even though I've lived at this address for 9 years. The main post office on 9th Street is horrible. The lines are terrible, always, and the people who work there would really rather kill you than sell you stamps, and they don't care if you know it. -
ooh, Paul the Postman whose route includes 7th between 2nd and 4th is excellent, I've known him for years. he even brings mail to me that is addressed to my long closed store. Paul rocks. However, the temps are awful.For The Love Of Paris, Don't Go To The Lounge!
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steve » ooh, Paul the Postman whose route includes 7th between 2nd and 4th is excellent, I've known him for years. he even brings mail to me that is addressed to my long closed store. Paul rocks. However, the temps are awful.
Paul is probably the only decent postman in PS. I get my magazines on time, unfortunately the bills on time as well. FYI if you time it well the clerks at the 7th Avenue branch are not bad. Just stay out of the PO from Hell, AKA Van Brunt on 9th Street. -
i love our little postman on 15th. he's so cute and tiny and friendly.what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r.
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Subject: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
Well, the screwups with my mail delivery seem to have stopped after repeated complaints to actually use the mailbox instead of just dropping all mail by the front door after going through the wrong gate. However, picking up packages is akin to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Hint to P.O. management: if you can't have someone actually working in the package pickup window who can get there within less than 5 minutes of pressing the buzzer, close the pickup window and route people to the regular line. Which of course is always practically out the door and can take over 45 minutes to get to the window from the end of. Some of us really DON'T have that kind of time just to pick up something lying 5 feet behind the oh-so-friendly bulletproof airlocks. Also, we don't need surly "we can be as rude as we feel like and there's nothing you can do about it" attitudes, not to mention the "stuck in slow motion" syndrome. Perhaps I'll file a complaint with the postmaster and include your name, mmkay, Esther the preventer of package pickup? And don't even get me started about how they can't be bothered to ring the bell and wait more than 3 seconds for it to be answered before they leave a pickup note. None of the staff I've dealt with at the 9th Street P.O. would last a day at UPS or FedEx. Next time I'll pay extra for their service just to avoid these morons. -
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Posts: 9,622I'm so glad that I rarely need stamps and that when I do need anything I can make it during the day to the mini office on PPW. That 9th St. one sounds like hell. -
Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Flexichick » Thinking "WTF is that?" I walked by and found the mail carrier SITTING COMPLETELY INSIDE the green mailbox eating a sandwich. I wish I had had my camera! Truly bizarre.
lol. wow, i just have to laugh at that. sorry about your mail, man. © tommy boySpend a buck, light a number for one the 400,000 victims in Darfur: darfurwall.org -
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Posts: 9,622Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Boygabriel » [quote="Flexichick"]Thinking "WTF is that?" I walked by and found the mail carrier SITTING COMPLETELY INSIDE the green mailbox eating a sandwich. I wish I had had my camera! Truly bizarre.
lol. wow, i just have to laugh at that. sorry about your mail, man. © tommy boy[/quote] I could not believe that this person (I think it was a man, but not sure) managed to fold themselves up entirely ('cept for the feet) inside a mailbox and then would sit inside eating lunch. -
Flexichick » I'm so glad that I rarely need stamps and that when I do need anything I can make it during the day to the mini office on PPW. That 9th St. one sounds like hell.
the people who work at the branch on PPW are really nice. and the head guy, calvin, he's fantastic.what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r. -
Subject: Re: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
BezierBoy » However, picking up packages is akin to the Ninth Circle of Hell. Hint to P.O. management: if you can't have someone actually working in the package pickup window who can get there within less than 5 minutes of pressing the buzzer, close the pickup window and route people to the regular line. Which of course is always practically out the door and can take over 45 minutes to get to the window from the end of. Some of us really DON'T have that kind of time just to pick up something lying 5 feet behind the oh-so-friendly bulletproof airlocks.
YES, package pickup is a DISASTER! My heart always sinks when I see that little pink card in my mailbox. It takes forever for someone to actually come to the window and then they take the card and disappear for a good long time. And then maybe they'll find your package, and maybe they won't. One time I had a package to pick up and also things to mail, so after waiting in the main line for half an hour to buy my stamps or whatever, I asked the clerk if she could also find my package for me -- she was enraged at the very idea. -
brooklynpotter » [quote="Flexichick"]I'm so glad that I rarely need stamps and that when I do need anything I can make it during the day to the mini office on PPW. That 9th St. one sounds like hell.
the people who work at the branch on PPW are really nice. and the head guy, calvin, he's fantastic.[/quote] Agreed. That branch is head and shoulders above the pit on 9th street. The guy running it should get a raise, but of course he probably won't. -
Subject: Re: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
Rose » YES, package pickup is a DISASTER! My heart always sinks when I see that little pink card in my mailbox. It takes forever for someone to actually come to the window and then they take the card and disappear for a good long time. And then maybe they'll find your package, and maybe they won't. One time I had a package to pick up and also things to mail, so after waiting in the main line for half an hour to buy my stamps or whatever, I asked the clerk if she could also find my package for me -- she was enraged at the very idea.
agreed. my brother gotone of those little pink slips the night before he left for vacation, but the slip clearly says that someone else can pickup the package for you if you bring along certain documents. don't remember what they were, but i did that and the woman practically wanted his fingerprints for me to get it. in fact, there was a point when she wasn't going togive it to me at all.what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r. -
Subject: Re: The Post Office of DOOM on 9th St.
brooklynpotter » [quote="Rose"] YES, package pickup is a DISASTER! My heart always sinks when I see that little pink card in my mailbox. It takes forever for someone to actually come to the window and then they take the card and disappear for a good long time. And then maybe they'll find your package, and maybe they won't. One time I had a package to pick up and also things to mail, so after waiting in the main line for half an hour to buy my stamps or whatever, I asked the clerk if she could also find my package for me -- she was enraged at the very idea.
agreed. my brother gotone of those little pink slips the night before he left for vacation, but the slip clearly says that someone else can pickup the package for you if you bring along certain documents. don't remember what they were, but i did that and the woman practically wanted his fingerprints for me to get it. in fact, there was a point when she wasn't going togive it to me at all.[/quote] oh yeah? well at the adelphi branch (which is where i have to schelp to, although it's not in my neighborhood by any description), they just won't give the package to you. even if you you do bring all the stupid things they tell you to. if it's not your name, forget it. and then, you'll spend a week at home, not even leaving to get a coke for fear of missing the package, and while you'll get lots more little pink notes, no package will come. i hate that place so much. and yes, i have made complaints.Bumping ancient threads with bot-like bullshit -
Subject: post office on 7th ave.
the post office on 7th avenue is frustrating. there is never enough window help and practically always a line. I met a man on line who said it's been that way for 30 years. he's complained and it's done nothing. I read an interview with the new head of the Brooklyn postal system and he said the issue isn't having more help, it's making sure the machines in the lobby work. Which I agree helps - they are often out of stamps! - but I think more workers would help. that being said, when I lived in park slope - 5 years up til 3 months ago - I thought the mail delivery was fine. The main problem I had was if they tried to deliver a package and you weren't there, you wouldn't get a 2nd "attempt" and would have to go to the 9th street station (agreed... another nightmare!). Although sometimes I called and they would bring it back -but only if I called. cat. -
Subject: Re: post office on 7th ave.
cat » the post office on 7th avenue is frustrating. there is never enough window help and practically always a line. I met a man on line who said it's been that way for 30 years. he's complained and it's done nothing. I read an interview with the new head of the Brooklyn postal system and he said the issue isn't having more help, it's making sure the machines in the lobby work. Which I agree helps - they are often out of stamps! - but I think more workers would help.
sadly, we have no machines at the one on PPW, or a drop-off box for packages you've already put postage on. but, still, nicer than 9th st.what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r. -
Problems I've had with Park Slope mail: -Post office on 7th Avenue never has stamps in its "Express Stamps" machine and I have to wait in line behind 20 people for 20 minutes to get stamps. -The mail person refuses to walk up my brownstone's stairs and sort the mail and put it in tenents' individual mail boxes. Instead he dumps all the mail through a hole in the basement door. WTF? -Why, if my name is John Kim and I live on 3rd Street and 6th Avenue, do I get mail for Gloria Hsu who lives in Williamsburgh? The names and addresses of mail coming to my building are so different to the names of the people who live in my building and my building's address. I wonder who's getting my mail -- a couple of kids in Canarsie? I reported these problems in person to the 7th Avenue Post office. They told me I would have to report problems to the post office on 9th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. So I did -- I went there in person, spoke to the person in charge and guess what...nothing has changed.
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When it comes to mailing packages, I like the place on 7th avenue with the Siamese cats. The guys in there are nice.
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Subject: Re: Mail delivery in Park Slope -- horrible
Shinybeast » What in the heck is up with the mail service in Park Slope (South)? I've never seen so many errors with delivery during my time in Brooklyn (15 years plus). I live in a two-family and we constantly get mail for people with addresses not really close to ours (we're on a street, we repeatedly get mail for people who live on avenues). I've lived in Greenpoint (two locations), Williamsburg & Sunnyside, Queens and have never experienced anything even remotely like it. It's pretty disturbing how wrong they get it repeatedly. Anyone else notice this? Our mail gets routed through the P.O. on 9th street. I don't even want to think about how much of my mail has ended up 17 blocks away...
Are you me? I've been having the same thoughts. I'm shocked by the mail I receive for people I've never met who have names not even close to my name who currently live five zip codes away. What's up? -
Is it true that postal workers have the highest suicide rate and are likely to go crazy on the job or am I thinking of dentists?
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Parkslopedope » Is it true that postal workers have the highest suicide rate and are likely to go crazy on the job or am I thinking of dentists?
i heard it was dentists. but that was in college right after someone told me that if your roommate commits suicide you get straight A's!!Spend a buck, light a number for one the 400,000 victims in Darfur: darfurwall.org -
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Posts: 9,622Parkslopedope » Is it true that postal workers have the highest suicide rate and are likely to go crazy on the job or am I thinking of dentists?
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it's dentists. and the place with the cats is great. but again, i must reiterate that i adore our little mail-man and his little folding mail cart. and theonly time mail got screwy was the week he was on vacation and i, too, was getting mail for gloria hsu in williamsburgwhat would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r.
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Subject: meanderthal
My 9th Street story is a happy one. I must've caught them on a good day, but here's what happened: I was house sitting for 6 weeks on 6th Street. After 2 weeks, no forwarded mail had arrived. I worried that I'd mistakenly written 6th Avenue as the forwarding address. I went to 9th Street where two friendly people conducted a lengthy backroom search and, finding nothing, told me the mail would've been returned (by the book) to the home post office as undeliverable (there was no such 6th Avenue address). I contacted my home post office and verified that I had indeed made the Street/Avenue mistake. They said they'd correct the forwarding labels to read Street, but they never followed through. Even so, the 9th Street office, now alerted to the problem, began delivering my incorrectly-addressed mail to me on 6th Street. I was amazed that they even remembered the situation, and even more surprised that they gave my mail special handling. I wouldn't have expected that even of my small upstate post office, let alone one of Brooklyn's. (I do hope the back-room confusion I caused didn't precipitate the Gloria Hsu problem.) -
It's postal workers. Even though I hate waiting in line forever, I have to feel bad for the people behind the registers. Anybody notice that they seem to have like eight different stacks of receipts to organize between customers? Apparently they don't even get AC. I know, I know, I'm taking the side of the hated Van Brunt postal workers, but you work in an environment where everyone's bitter and upset to be there and eventually you too, become bitter and upset to be there. There are some really nice people at Van Brunt, though; the supervisor is a sweet woman, and there's a girl who works in the back who always helps me when I stop by with 45 packages. I am a little pissed when I think about all the checks I may never have received, though.
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It's not that the mail comes late or that I get all kinds of mail for the wrong people, both in my building and out of it, But I can't seem to get my mail unless the apt no is clearly on the envelope, even though it is clearly on the mail box, inside and out. I NEVER had that problem when i was living in Manhattan.
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Man, oh man, that Van Brunt Station. Not only have I mysteriously not received masses of magazines (who is reading my Details right now!?) but the most important piece of mail that went missing was a job offer. Good thing I called to check on it and they told me they'd mailed it to me. Thanks, post office. But, I should thank them for bringing me and my neighbors closer together. These's nothing like commiserating while we sort the mail that the carrier dumped on the floor to make me get to know my neighbors. By the way, those "complaint forms" that the post office used to have? They phased 'em out. You can still fill one out, if you can find one, but it's not even going to get registered, let alone responded to. What's the sound of one hand clapping?
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i'm telling you, go to the one on PPW, they couldn't be friendlier. (and if you're looking to buy stamps, esp. the cool/nice ones, it's so much easier to do online. same with priority mail supplies.)what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r.
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brooklynpotter » i'm telling you, go to the one on PPW, they couldn't be friendlier.
They are very nice, maybe a little too nice. You can wait in line a long time while the clerks and customers chat about so-and-so's sister who married someone else's cousin and what doctor she saw for her bunions. It's still got that old-time Windsor Terrace vibe. Which is much nicer than dealing with the hostility and incompetence at 9th Street, but it would be even nicer if they had room for a stamp machine or two in the lobby. -
Rose » it would be even nicer if they had room for a stamp machine or two in the lobby.
yes, that would be fantastic. because there have been times when i've been super-rushed and needed to mail something and have resorted to "illegally" buying stamps from the market across the street, for 50 cents.what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r. -
I've tried to minimize my use of the Post Office as much as possible. I pay all my bills online. Wherever possible, I have things delivered by UPS. When I send packages, I do it from the mailboxes etc-type place on Flatbush by the Q. The USPS is basically mostly for delivery of my magazines and catalogues.
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ive had great mail service since i moved to no-boca'bush. my carrier will also bring packages up to my 5th floor walk-up, even when its heavy packages from over seas (usually wine from spain)VV4@†3!53?
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MeanDººD » ive had great mail service since i moved to no-boca'bush. my carrier will also bring packages up to my 5th floor walk-up, even when its heavy packages from over seas (usually wine from spain)
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Whenever I get other people's mail, I always wonder who is sometimes getting my mail. I get other people's bank statements, credit card offers and other materials akin to recieving a ready made identity theft kit. So someone somewhere can easily rip off my identity thanks to post office mistakes.
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grandzu » Whenever I get other people's mail, I always wonder who is sometimes getting my mail. I get other people's bank statements, credit card offers and other materials akin to recieving a ready made identity theft kit. So someone somewhere can easily rip off my identity thanks to post office mistakes.
when did it become "identity theft"? ? seriously, didn't it used to be that someone just stole your credit cards, or got cards in your name, yadda yadda. and now--and i'm not saying it's not a giant problem--it has this buzzword description. i've had two credit cards cloned this year alone, so i'm all for it. but i certainly hope the person who used my card at payless shoes in topeka wasn't actually pretending to be me, because i'd never buy those cheapo shoes.what would you tell me, if i could hear you speaking?--t.r. -
brooklynpotter » when did it become "identity theft"? ? seriously, didn't it used to be that someone just stole your credit cards, or got cards in your name, yadda yadda. and now--and i'm not saying it's not a giant problem--it has this buzzword description.
Someone got my sister-in-law's social security number and has used that (and her name, I guess) to get jobs. Now the IRS is garnishing my SIL's paychecks to collect taxes owed by this other person. It's a really bad situation. Once someone gets your social security number, you are screwed, apparently. -
What a timely topic... my Ebay purchase from Thailand was delivered to my apartment last week. I wasn't home to receive the package, so it went back to the Van Brunt post office. I put out the signature authorization for the carrier to redeliver and leave in my bldg lobby. The package never arrived. I ran into my carrier yesterday and he said that the package guy at Van Brunt "has issues." Apparently, carriers used to go into the storage area and retrieve packages for redelivery, but the guy with issues decided to handle this himself. Consequently, my package is lost in the ether.
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Subject: what ever happened to?
what ever happened to dry cleaners/copy shops that would sign for small packages? I just need to order something from a clothing site and there's like nobody that will do this for me? I've heard (via this site) that mailboxes etc. is bullshit - is there any other place i can look into? Please PM me (still haven't quite figured out how to search this thing… Thanks! Z -
Ansonia Chemist (7th Ave, between 10 & 11 St) has mailboxes for rent. I have seen people picking up packages held behind the counter. Their phone is 718-965-0565 if you want to check it out.
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Subject: Re: what ever happened to?
zbruno » what ever happened to dry cleaners/copy shops that would sign for small packages? I just need to order something from a clothing site and there's like nobody that will do this for me? I've heard (via this site) that mailboxes etc. is bullshit - is there any other place i can look into? Please PM me (still haven't quite figured out how to search this thing… Thanks! Z
The shipping store on Fifth Ave between Sackett and DeGraw is fine - and they have mailboxes. I don't know what it's called. There are fewer small businesses around, but if you have a relationship with them (or your neighbors) you can ask them to sign for your package. It's not like that's changed.... -
Carnivore » I've tried to minimize my use of the Post Office as much as possible. I pay all my bills online. Wherever possible, I have things delivered by UPS. When I send packages, I do it from the mailboxes etc-type place on Flatbush by the Q. The USPS is basically mostly for delivery of my magazines and catalogues.
Listen to Carnivore. Besides, who can keep up with buying and using stamps before the cost of postage increases?I blame such comments on beer.
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What is this magical place "no-boca'bush" where mail men climb stairs to deliver packages?Ok, now I'm crazy. Another goal achieved.
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I just had my second package either stolen or mismailed today in the last few weeks. Arg. Thank god for Amex (online orders they refund for you no questions). I've put up a huge sign in my apartment building for the delivery people to not leave packages because they keep getting stolen.Did Someone Say Walk?
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the USPS recently sent out a brochure to increase publi awareness of identity theft. The local carrier, of course, left them in a pile on the floor of our building.
Thus driving home the point
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brooklynpotter » it's dentists.
I wonder about that. They call it "Going Postal" not "Going Dental"
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raw » ...Besides, who can keep up with buying and using stamps before the cost of postage increases?
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I've had THREE, count em, THREE packages go missing when they were delivered and then returned to Van Brunt when I wasn't home. They all were listed as "delivered" on the USPS site, even though I had the receipts to prove that the attempt had been made but not consummated. The people at Van Brunt package window are ok, but I'm utterly convinced that my packages are there with my name facing out clear as day and that, if they would only let me back in that room, that I would find them in 10 seconds. I know this because that's what happened with another package of mine. THe guy searched for like 30 min for it and I finally craned my neck as far as I could and saw it way back on the shelf. I now try desperately to only have things shipped UPS or FedEx.
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ARG. Yet another package was delivered to the wrong address! Luckily wherever the mailman decided to leave my package, the people mailed it back to the company. But this is just ridiculous. I've had 3 packages either lost, stolen, or submitted to the wrong address in 6 months. Please, for all those whom have had experiences with this, click on the link and submit a complaint. I did this on the last package and they forwarded my complaint to the local office. If enough of us do it, maybe it can have an effect. https://hdusps.esecurecare.net/cgi-bin/hdusps.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=LDid Someone Say Walk?
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i had all my mail forwarded to a different address. I miss alot of important mail for my house in ps.Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure).
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