# My postman is a barbarian. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 23, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780 "2009-06-23T23:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/21 "2009-06-24T14:35:30Z")
I remember plenty of 5.25" floppies from the old days, cheerfully folded by mailmen… Yeah, funny that. They don’t work so hot after being folded. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/22 "2009-06-24T16:42:38Z")
> [@dragonlady](#): > > That said, if the package said “Do not bend”, take it and it’s contents to the post office ans ask to speak with the delivery supervisor. Oh, you can talk to customer service, but if you want anything done, get the delivery supervisor. If it didn’t SAY “Do Not Bend”, you’ll have a bit more trouble. But I’d call the mailer who failed to package your book so that it couldn’t BE bent and raise hell. > And your carrier is a LAZY asshole. What she said. If you fail to follow these recommendations and it happens again, you deserve no sympathy. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/23 "2009-06-24T17:22:38Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Similar and true story. > > Many years ago I worked for a same day courier service. Normal procedure was to mark the package tracking number on the package. As almost everything we carried was either envelopes or cardboard boxes, this was not a big deal. On occasion, we carried more fragile items. > > I go to the drop box to retrieve a package and marked ON the cover of a carpeting sample book, in BIG BLACK PERMANENT MARKER was the warning: > > **“Do not mark package with tracking number”** :smack: Who’s the genius that did that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/24 "2009-06-24T17:40:02Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Who’s the genius that did that? 😃 The driver who made the pick-up.(not me!) There’s a line on the dispatch form for special instructions that usually are marked on the package along with the tracking number. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/25 "2009-06-24T18:09:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > No offense, **Bosda** , but you sure seem to have a lot of trouble with service people. Perhaps you need to be more assertive? And you seem to have a lot of trouble getting laid. Perhaps you need to be less of a bullying bitch? Edit: This was probably a bit too aggressive, but honestly you should leave Bosda alone and pick on someone your own tiddly size. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/26 "2009-06-24T18:27:28Z")
Abjectly, I must confess, such techniques can be effective. On more than one occassion, I have been confronted with a demand for sex and have cravenly complied. But I am a spineless wretch with little or no self-esteem. She had her way with me, and that’s all there is to it! Woe! Woe is me! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/27 "2009-06-24T18:40:51Z")
> [@Angry Lurker](#): > > And you seem to have a lot of trouble getting laid. Perhaps you need to be less of a bullying bitch? > > Edit: This was probably a bit too aggressive, but honestly you should leave Bosda alone and pick on someone your own tiddly size. **Guin** may have been referring to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=424016). Bosda, did you ever get that loan? ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/28 "2009-06-24T21:02:19Z")
Am I the only one who thinks that lack of “do not bend” on a package shouldn’t be license for it to be destructively crammed into a mailbox? I mean, even a very flexible magazine still has a limit as to how much abuse it can take. Of course this is just one of a half dozen reasons why we gave up a mailbox and got a mailslot installed instead. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/29 "2009-06-24T21:27:50Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > Of course this is just one of a half dozen reasons why we gave up a mailbox and got a mailslot installed instead. Which means that any package can be delivered with judicious use of a large hammer. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/30 "2009-06-24T21:29:42Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Which means that any package can be delivered with judicious use of a large hammer. Or a blender. Purees are very easy to feed through a slot. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/31 "2009-06-24T21:30:59Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > No offense, **Bosda** , but you sure seem to have a lot of trouble with service people. Perhaps you need to be more assertive? Apartment building boxes. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/32 "2009-06-24T21:34:26Z")
BTW–I left a couple of notes. He has started leaving packages at the office. BTW-- this is some of Bok’s art [![](http://lh4.ggpht.com/abramsv/SOlVKZQtd9I/AAAAAAAAgqw/rXBUgTlwM8o/s640/346754eyuftgjghkhj.jpg) ](http://lh4.ggpht.com/abramsv/SOlVKZQtd9I/AAAAAAAAgqw/rXBUgTlwM8o/s640/346754eyuftgjghkhj.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/33 "2009-06-24T23:23:09Z")
Use hammer or blender to affect delivery…duly noted. There should be a limit to bending, even without a “do not bend”. However those damnable apartment boxes are trying at best. Unless you remove the mail EACH AND EVERY DAY, AND don’t get too much at one time (think Christmas catalogs…) there is almost no way to deliver with smooshing stuff. (And yes, that is a postal approved term!) ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/34 "2009-06-24T23:27:49Z")
And a pox on the cheap bastard who saved a few cents by not putting a sheet of cardboard in the envelope in first place! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/35 "2009-06-25T01:51:20Z")
> [@Angry Lurker](#): > > And you seem to have a lot of trouble getting laid. Perhaps you need to be less of a bullying bitch? > > Edit: This was probably a bit too aggressive, but honestly you should leave Bosda alone and pick on someone your own tiddly size. Da’hell did that come from? My comments weren’t meant to be nasty. I hope they didn’t come off that way. Seriously, **Bosda** , I hope you didn’t take them that way. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/36 "2009-06-25T03:54:48Z")
Ever read _Post Office_, by Charles Bukowski? That’s what you’re dealing with. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/37 "2009-06-25T21:32:35Z")
My Bok collection was…hard cover. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/38 "2009-06-26T03:35:21Z")
Wait – dude bent a HARDCOVER book? That’s pretty fucked up. I’d fucking kill. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/39 "2009-06-26T15:17:07Z")
In the OP you said it was paperback. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780/40 "2009-06-26T15:19:31Z")
> [@percypercy](#): > > In the OP you said it was paperback. Read again. > [@](#): > > MY HANNES BOK ART BOOK! > > MY 1950S VINTAGE DETECTIVE PAPERBACK! The binding on the art book was not specified. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-postman-is-a-barbarian/500780.md?page=3)