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Got the question at the Post Office today

Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

Shipped some coins out this morning, insured mail, in padded mailers.

PO: Do these contain anything fragile, liquid, perishable ... blah, blah ....

Me: No

PO: What's in these packages...

WTH?

Dave

Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.

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  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,786 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I usually say 'Jeep parts' :)

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  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,605 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If they ever asked that to me, I’d just say it’s a custom cat figurine. No one would want to steal that...

  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I would have said toilet paper sheets.

  • ShaunBC5ShaunBC5 Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭✭✭

    isn't it the same thing that's "in the bag" from the hitchhiker?

  • ReadyFireAimReadyFireAim Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 17, 2020 11:03AM

    Ever see Pulp Fiction? :)

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dirty laundry.

  • derrybderryb Posts: 36,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "It's classified."

    Believe it or not the US military uses registered mail to send items with a SECRET or lesser classification.

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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Dave99B said:
    PO: What's in these packages...

    how about bubble padding and paperwork? :wink:

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  • hchcoinhchcoin Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @privatecoin said:
    Covid 19 test swabs....

    That was good

  • CatbertCatbert Posts: 7,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I say artifacts and they look at me dumbly and move off the topic.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,781 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've always wanted to say Titanium Washers.....but have never been asked.

    bob :)

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  • 3stars3stars Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Once I actually had a bank teller as me what the check i was depositing was for, as in why did someone write me the check...

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  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @3stars said:
    Once I actually had a bank teller as me what the check i was depositing was for, as in why did someone write me the check...

    my business account gives mine away "old collector coins." i can be pretty witty sometimes but it's tough to wiggle outta that one. ;)

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  • DNADaveDNADave Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Stamped planchets.

  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 4,947 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I usually tell them the envelope is flammable, but they never ask whats in it.

    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • RelaxnRelaxn Posts: 996 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dog Treats!!

  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 17, 2020 2:48PM

    I usually say "nothing illegal."

    I said that once and the clerk, who I know and see all the time said, "One time we had a guy come in here and mail a gold bar."

    I said, "Wow, that's interesting. Who would mail something like that?"

    Next time it happens, I'm going to tell him the joke about picking up a hitchhiker in the rain........

  • TurtleCatTurtleCat Posts: 4,605 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Self sealing stem bolts...

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There are some questions that you just don't answer. Knock knock... who's there?... Nonya... Nonya who....Nonya business! Peace Roy

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  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 17, 2020 2:54PM

    Nothing. It's empty.

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  • If i'm not mistaken USPS employee's are not even allowed to ask you that

  • Dave99BDave99B Posts: 8,550 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Timidpenny -

    This was a new Postal employee. Not sure what happened to the three regulars I’ve seen for 5+ years. I’ve only seen this gal working the counter the last four trips. I know she’s new because every transaction is a cluster. Not clear what’s going on, frankly. I’m fairly sure they aren’t supposed to ask what’s in the package.

    Dave

    Always looking for original, better date VF20-VF35 Barber quarters and halves, and a quality beer.
  • coinercoiner Posts: 668 ✭✭✭✭

    My go to answer—car parts.
    If I’m annoyed—none of your business, or, are you nosey?

  • AlongAlong Posts: 466 ✭✭✭✭

    “Junk mail”

  • HoledandCreativeHoledandCreative Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Type set parts

  • AlongAlong Posts: 466 ✭✭✭✭

    How do you keep 2 dozen checking accounts straight?

  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,692 ✭✭✭✭✭

    never been asked that just the common questions about if the package has anything harmful and such in it, then nothing else is asked

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  • PickwickjrPickwickjr Posts: 556 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was asked that a few months ago. My answer was stuff I want insured! She didn’t ask me anything after that.

  • OldhoopsterOldhoopster Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Whenever this happened to me, I always repeated, "Nothing fragile liquid hazardous or perishable". Only once, did the clerk ask again. I asked if there was form that I needed to fill out that required that info. He said no and just have me a dirty look. What a jerk.

    Member of the ANA since 1982
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Unless they were a new employee they should know better than to ask such a question.

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I was asked once, and I said "Commercial metal components." No further comment....Cheers, RickO

  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good response would be "May I speak to your supervisor?" :o

    Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
    "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
    "Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire

  • labloverlablover Posts: 3,632 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Stupid questions deserve a stupid answer. It's like the zippy-mart I entered to buy some gum. Clerk asked me if I had gas outside. No I said, I wait until I come in so everyone can enjoy the fragrance.

    "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." Will Rogers
  • NumisOxideNumisOxide Posts: 10,997 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Oil pan crush washers"

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Along said:
    How do you keep 2 dozen checking accounts straight?

    Landlord. I have a separate checking account for each property or cluster of properties.

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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  • Rooster1Rooster1 Posts: 381 ✭✭✭

    Sky Hooks

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  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,616 ✭✭✭✭✭

    i got that once. i was mailing a collection of coins to CAC registered and i stepped up to the counter and handed the form to the clerk...she looked at it and exclaimed in a very loud manner:

    "FORTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!" what's in this???

    sheesh, keep it down, ok!

  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @steveben said:
    i got that once. i was mailing a collection of coins to CAC registered and i stepped up to the counter and handed the form to the clerk...she looked at it and exclaimed in a very loud manner:

    "FORTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS!" what's in this???

    sheesh, keep it down, ok!

    Wow.

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