[meteorite-list] Unbelievably late package

JKGwilliam h3chondrite at cox.net
Wed Sep 20 01:30:24 EDT 2006


Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to put together a dual purpose trip to 
the Bahamas...a free vacation courtesy of a business trip to teach some 
baseball bat manners to a sleazy attorney.

Best,
JKG


At 05:02 PM 9/19/2006, R. N. Hartman wrote:
>Here is our silly story:
>
>One delivery of membrane boxes from the factory in Europe to us in the U.S.
>by FedEx consisted of 19 parcels ( about 3 cu. ft. ea.).  They all arrived
>at customs in Memphis, Tennessee.  But then18 came to us in Califonia and
>one was delivered to an attorney in the Bahamas (opposite direction).  FedEx
>contacted the attorney who refused to give it up!  Took about 9 months for
>FedEx to actually refund the value and shipping costs for a very obvious
>error that was even on their tracking screen!
>
>Ron Hartman
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
>To: <Impactika at aol.com>; <brandes at gmx.at>;
><Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 6:13 PM
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Unbelievably late package
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Impactika at aol.com>
> > To: <brandes at gmx.at>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 6:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Unbelievably late package
> >
> > > Another one sent to Texas came back with the notice "Customs Declaration
> > > is
> > > missing". We have always known that Texas is different but when did it
> > > become
> > > independent?    ;-)
> > > Anne M. Black
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Hi, Anne, List
> >
> >     As any Texan would be happy to tell you,
> > March 2, 1836!
> >     "The Texas Declaration of Independence was
> > produced, literally, overnight. Its urgency was
> > paramount, because while it was being prepared,
> > the Alamo in San Antonio was under seige by
> > Santa Anna's Army of Mexico.
> >     Immediately upon the assemblage of the Convention
> > of 1836 on March 1, a committee of five of its delegates
> > were appointed to draft the document. The committee,
> > consisting of George C. Childress, Edward Conrad,
> > James Gaines, Bailey Hardeman, and Collin McKinney,
> > prepared the declaration in record time. It was briefly
> > reviewed, then adopted by the delegates of the convention
> > the following day.
> >     The document parallels somewhat that of the United States,
> > signed almost sixty years earlier. It contains statements on
> > the function and responsibility of government, followed by
> > a list of grievances. Finally, it concludes by declaring Texas
> > a free and independent republic."
> >     Full text at: http://www.lsjunction.com/docs/tdoi.htm
> >
> > Sterling K. Webb
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
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