<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand in letterbox : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/"/><tagline>Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand in letterbox : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-12-03T03:13:14+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand in letterbox]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51661/1/" /><id>51661</id><summary><![CDATA[Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand in letterbox]]></summary><issued>2008-02-22T04:42:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-22T04:42:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Dealing With Junk-Mail - The Fun Way]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57041/1/" /><id>57041</id><summary><![CDATA[Dealing With Junk-Mail - The Fun Way]]></summary><issued>2008-04-04T10:47:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-04T10:47:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Dear Bulk Mailer,<br/><br/>Please 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.<br/><br/>-Resident or Homeowner]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[3 GB of GMail love: no more sign-up restrictions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10866/1/" /><id>10866</id><summary><![CDATA[3 GB of GMail love: no more sign-up restrictions]]></summary><issued>2007-02-15T18:16:51+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-15T18:16:51+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hairdresser sued for refusing to hire Muslim woman in a headscarf]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41164/1/" /><id>41164</id><summary><![CDATA[Hairdresser sued for refusing to hire Muslim woman in a headscarf]]></summary><issued>2007-11-09T07:51:50+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-09T07:51:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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 &quot;urban, funky&quot; cuts. She told Miss Noah, 19, she needed her staff to display their hairstyles to the public.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Neither rain, nor sleet, nor complex puzzles stays these couriers...]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79300/1/" /><id>79300</id><summary><![CDATA[Neither rain, nor sleet, nor complex puzzles stays these couriers...]]></summary><issued>2008-10-12T12:01:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-12T12:01:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Introducing P-Mail: Paper based e-mail]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9425/1/" /><id>9425</id><summary><![CDATA[Introducing P-Mail: Paper based e-mail]]></summary><issued>2007-01-23T12:56:28+01:00</issued><modified>2007-01-23T12:56:28+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Guerrilla Mail]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13369/1/" /><id>13369</id><summary><![CDATA[Guerrilla Mail]]></summary><issued>2007-03-16T14:09:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-16T14:09:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Indian man makes Robo-servant from junk]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37751/1/" /><id>37751</id><summary><![CDATA[Indian man makes Robo-servant from junk]]></summary><issued>2007-10-08T20:18:27+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-08T20:18:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=68137&amp;videoChannel=4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VIDEO</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[E-snailer]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45661/1/" /><id>45661</id><summary><![CDATA[E-snailer]]></summary><issued>2008-01-01T02:31:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-01T02:31:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This will convert your email to snail mail, address it and snail mail it to recipient.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Kid gets  Mail to Grandpa 'Washing Machine Man&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/176/1/" /><id>176</id><summary><![CDATA[Kid gets  Mail to Grandpa 'Washing Machine Man&quot;]]></summary><issued>2006-09-07T12:26:22+01:00</issued><modified>2006-09-07T12:26:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Grandson sent grandfather mail with no address only writing on envelope 'Washing Machine Man, Ixworth&quot;.  The Royal Mail actually delivered this letter to the right guy!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Junk Collector Finds $50 Million Worth of 1930s Depression-Era Bills]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/68574/1/" /><id>68574</id><summary><![CDATA[Junk Collector Finds $50 Million Worth of 1930s Depression-Era Bills]]></summary><issued>2008-07-12T18:45:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-12T18:45:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Polish mail slower than snail]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/48234/1/" /><id>48234</id><summary><![CDATA[Polish mail slower than snail]]></summary><issued>2008-01-24T10:55:43+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-24T10:55:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Revealed: The shocking 6ft mountain of junk mail delivered to just one home in 12 months]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45956/1/" /><id>45956</id><summary><![CDATA[Revealed: The shocking 6ft mountain of junk mail delivered to just one home in 12 months]]></summary><issued>2008-01-03T20:07:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-03T20:07:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Anne Cohen decided to collect the stack of bumph to show how companies are bombarding homeowners.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Money in mail comes with message from God]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79519/1/" /><id>79519</id><summary><![CDATA[Money in mail comes with message from God]]></summary><issued>2008-10-15T07:56:36+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-15T07:56:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Residents said up to 60 post office box holders in the small Northern Southland town received $10 in the mail complete with a letter encouraging them to contact God on Friday.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hang Him! Top Internet Spammer Busted]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22178/1/" /><id>22178</id><summary><![CDATA[Hang Him! Top Internet Spammer Busted]]></summary><issued>2007-05-30T23:32:43+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-30T23:32:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[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 &quot;immediate, perceptible decrease in the amount of junk e-mail winging its way across the Web.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Canadian mail service suspends delivery  due to &quot;Dog Poo Hazard&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/13885/1/" /><id>13885</id><summary><![CDATA[Canadian mail service suspends delivery  due to &quot;Dog Poo Hazard&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-03-22T19:24:01+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-22T19:24:01+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow will prevent delivery of the mail but excessive amounts of dog shizzit will! Mail delivery was suspeneded to 13 housing units in St. Johns, Newfoundland until residents break out the pooper scoopers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Postmen find poison snakes in express mail]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18677/1/" /><id>18677</id><summary><![CDATA[Postmen find poison snakes in express mail]]></summary><issued>2007-05-01T23:24:39+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-01T23:24:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Postal workers in a Brazilian border town knew there was something suspicious about the shipments from Argentina and were stunned to find scorpions and poisonous snakes in the express mail.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obese child can stay with mother]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11776/1/" /><id>11776</id><summary><![CDATA[Obese child can stay with mother]]></summary><issued>2007-02-27T17:47:59+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-27T17:47:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[British social workers have decided to allow an 8-year-old boy who weighs almost 200 pounds (91 kilograms) to remain at home with his mother, who has refused to stop feeding him junk food...]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Serial Mail Bomber]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10327/1/" /><id>10327</id><summary><![CDATA[Serial Mail Bomber]]></summary><issued>2007-02-07T17:17:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-07T17:17:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Three mail bombs have exploded within the last three days in the UK, a total of seven bombs over a three week period.  The last three targetting, it seems, motor vehicle related companies:<br/>Monday - Capita offices, London - dealing with the congestion charges<br/>Tuesday - Vantis, Wokingham - provider of digital speed cameras to police<br/>Wednesday - DVLA offices, Swansea (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Animals and Insects made from Junk]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/21588/1/" /><id>21588</id><summary><![CDATA[Animals and Insects made from Junk]]></summary><issued>2007-05-27T12:11:30+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-27T12:11:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Edouard Martinet creates some pretty amazing art out of household junk!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mail carrier attacked by squirrel]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/weird/l/4962/1/" /><id>4962</id><summary><![CDATA[Mail carrier attacked by squirrel]]></summary><issued>2006-11-01T16:53:52+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-01T16:53:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;It was a freak thing. It was traumatic,&quot; Dougherty told The Derrick in Oil City. &quot;I saw it there on the porch, put the mail in the box and turned to walk away and it jumped on me.&quot;]]></content></entry></feed>