<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand in letterbox : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>51661</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51661/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Homeowner sued after woman delivering junk mail claims she injured her hand in letterbox]]></title><description><![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. 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The Royal Mail actually delivered this letter to the right guy!]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>-1</score><crdate>9/7/2006 12:26:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-09-07T12:26:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68574</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/68574/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Junk Collector Finds $50 Million Worth of 1930s Depression-Era Bills]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>75</score><crdate>7/12/2008 6:45:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-12T18:45:21+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48234</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48234/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Polish mail slower than snail]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>128</score><crdate>1/24/2008 10:55:43 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-24T10:55:43+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45956</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45956/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Revealed: The shocking 6ft mountain of junk mail delivered to just one home in 12 months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anne Cohen decided to collect the stack of bumph to show how companies are bombarding homeowners.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>270</score><crdate>1/3/2008 8:07:25 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T20:07:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>79519</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79519/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Money in mail comes with message from God]]></title><description><![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.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>189</score><crdate>10/15/2008 7:56:36 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-15T07:56:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22178</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22178/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hang Him! 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