Junk mail rarely brings you something you want, but for one homeowner it has led to a lawsuit landing on his doormat. Paul O'Brien is being sued by a woman who says she trapped her hand in his letterbox while posting mail. Joy Goodman, a cake decorator in her late 40s, is seeking damages for personal injury and loss of earnings. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago tags homeowner sued junk mail junk mail letterbox |
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Junk mail wastes our time, destroys our environment, and invades our privacy. 11 comments edit related share worldIt's time we stopped the madness. picked by KerOBeroS32 11 months ago |
Dear Bulk Mailer, 13 comments edit related share plime.comPlease find attached to your no-postage-necessary envelope, this brick. I figured with all these great junk mails you send me every month, you'd like something in return! I know it costs twenty cents for every ounce I mail to you, so I hope it doesn't weigh too much more than an ounce. -Resident or Homeowner picked by doggylives 2 years ago |
Starting Feb. 14, Google removed the requirement to enter a mobile phone number capable of receiving SMS messages, or being invited by an existing user. picked by TheBlueFrog 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
"I was unable to deliver all of the mail. Instead of asking for help ... I took it upon myself to place the mail in a storage facility." picked by suebe 10 months ago 6 comments edit related share world |
The owner of a hair salon is being sued for religious discrimination for refusing to hire a Muslim woman who wears a headscarf. Sarah Desrosiers, 32, says she turned down Bushra Noah as a junior stylist to maintain the image of her salon, which specialises in "urban, funky" cuts. She told Miss Noah, 19, she needed her staff to display their hairstyles to the public. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 55 comments edit related share plime.com |
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A 43-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier was arrested while on her rounds Thursday, then charged with possessing and selling drugs. Agents found 7.57 grams of meth packaged for sale, prescription drugs, documentation of sales, packaging material and a glass smoking pipe in her vehicle. Any room left for the mail? picked by kakana 7 months ago 2 comments edit related share weird |
One woman decided to find out exactly what lengths the men and women of the Royal Mail were willing to go to to deliver the mail. To put them to the test she concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in a series of increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers. picked by tigertony 1 year ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
Never one to uphold high journalistic standards, The Daily Mail has excelled itself by on the one hand screaming itself hoarse over the dangers of the HPV vaccine and on the other it bellows about the injustice of how this self same vaccine is not available. 0 comments edit related share plime.comEDIT: If the original link is offline try this mirror. picked by pocksucket 8 months ago |
It's just like e-mail, only slower and costlier. Simply print out a template, write with actual ink on it, and send by post! picked by jaxomlotus 3 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame. picked by Johnny21J 3 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
An Indian inventor has found a novel way of helping the poor - by turning old junk into a reliable piece of machinery that can walk and talk. Feroz Siddiki has spent two years developing the IRobo and hopes it will eventually rival more expensive robots like Asimo made by the Japanese company Honda. VIDEO picked by DrNothing 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
...hate mail from viewers for not crediting God.... picked by topofall 10 months ago 10 comments edit related share science |
This will convert your email to snail mail, address it and snail mail it to recipient. picked by Ellz 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Grandson sent grandfather mail with no address only writing on envelope 'Washing Machine Man, Ixworth". The Royal Mail actually delivered this letter to the right guy! picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Craig Sexton of 1-800-Got Junk has seen all kinds of weird things in the many estate clean-ups he's done. There was a fridge of rotted cheese and rotted cans of salmon. But nothing prepared Sexton for what he found in the suite above an old deli called the Lido in east Vancouver in February. picked by Moogle 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share weird |
An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. His boss was unavailable for comment. picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share science |
Massive deficits could force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery, the postmaster general told Congress on Wednesday, in asking lawmakers to lift the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago 3 comments edit related share world |
Anne Cohen decided to collect the stack of bumph to show how companies are bombarding homeowners. picked by muppet 2 years ago 5 comments edit related share plime.com |
NASA now puts the risk for a catastrophic collision with junk during the mission at 1 in 229 - greater than typical flights to the space station but lower than the agency's initial estimates. picked by kakana 7 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
Now that a federal grand jury returned a 35-count indictment charging the 27 year old Sacramento man with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering, expect an "immediate, perceptible decrease in the amount of junk e-mail winging its way across the Web." picked by VooDooPeacock 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |