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   bring on the dotcom postmen
Wednesday, May 23 2001
I don't know from which rock this crawled out from under, but that Journey song I was singing in the car on the way to Badly Drawn Boy on Sunday is now a certifiable Flash-fueled meme. This is indicated by the fact that two different people have drawn my attention to it. I'm curious as to who decided to obsess about Journey first; the idea of a Journey obsession seems to have sprung up independently in at least two different places nearly simultaneously.

I've said this before and I'm about to say is again, mail delivery in West LA is the worst I have ever experienced living anywhere. Every day, without fail, John and I take delivery of mail obviously addressed to someone else. There's this one structural design place up on Wilshire (with a very clear Wilshire address), and yet we seem to get a sizable fraction of their mail. Yesterday it seemed as if the mailman simply swapped mail between our box and the woman two doors to the east. Mind you, the incompetence doesn't stop with US either. Today, for example, John watched in horror as the Airborne Express man delivered his package to the honeycomb of mailboxes belonging to the apartments across the street, a place with a two-foot high numbers in bas-relief on the front. He knew what had happened and went over there to retrieve it. But still, we're left to wonder, how much of our stuff to do we actually get? Interestingly, though, I've never known the postman to incorrectly deliver an actual bill.
Hopefully now that the economy is entering a recession, there will be something of a flood of reasonably competent people out of the dotcoms and into more mundane clerical jobs such as postal work.

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