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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: The Post Office -- your suspicions confirmed
Message-ID: <357@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 19:32:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  5 19:32:00 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 10:16:29 EST
Organization: DEC UNIX Engineering Group
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The following appeared in Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine:

"Letters posted by villagers in Kintbury, Berks, failed to reach their
destinations because a family of snails living in the mail box ate them.
'They were gobbling the letters as fast as people posted them,' a
Post Office spokesman said.
		-- The Daily Telegraph (London)"

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Martin Minow
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