Dept. of Several Things
Who DOES That?
(Originally post March 8 on Dreamwidth. Manually imported.) As part of our efforts to do more than sign online petitions or (in BB's case, vote in every election from aldermanic to presidential), BB and I signed up to send postcards to potential Democratic voters in Wisconsin. We were working with different campaigns; he with one that required him to provide his own postcards and postage (not a problem) and me with one that would send me stamped postcards.
Today, I got the envelope. It still had the list of people to whom I was to send the postcards. It didn't contain the postcards; nor did it include the sharpie or campaign swag I was, to my surprise, supposed to get.
Yeah. Someone had torn the envelope open and taken everything that the thief thought was valuable.
It's either our postal carrier - sadly, a real possibility, since our current carrier has shown outrageously bad service - or someone in our section of the building. While having the postal carrier do this is truly bad, having someone from the building is bad, too. It's not the first time the building's had to deal with theft; we actually had to install security cams to deter theft, and until now, that had actually, you know, deterred it. But this?
Twenty five stamped postcards. A marker and some undoubtedly small piece of swag. Such petty, much selfish, wow.
I contacted the campaign, and they're going to see if they have postcards left to send me. I told them I don't need stamped postcards because I have enough postage to last me well into the next decade. I'm not kidding. And if they don't, I have a bunch of great postcards I can use.
In the meantime, I helped BB with his cards, which have to be mailed tomorrow.
Oh, and I put this up on the bulletin board next to our postboxes:
ATTENTION: To whoever opened the envelope addressed to me, from the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, and stole most of its contents - 25 stamped postcards, a Sharpie, and other items from the Alliance - SHAME ON YOU.
If you are a resident of our building - SHAME ON YOU. The items weren’t monetarily valuable, but they were an important part of a campaign I’m helping out.
If you are our postal carrier - SHAME ON YOU. You bring disrepute to your position, your union, and the USPS.
Whoever you are: what you did was petty, and selfish. That it’s also illegal goes without saying, but it’s the pettiness that really grinds me. So, once again: SHAME ON YOU.
*marches back into the house grumpily*
(Originally post March 8 on Dreamwidth. Manually imported.) As part of our efforts to do more than sign online petitions or (in BB's case, vote in every election from aldermanic to presidential), BB and I signed up to send postcards to potential Democratic voters in Wisconsin. We were working with different campaigns; he with one that required him to provide his own postcards and postage (not a problem) and me with one that would send me stamped postcards.
Today, I got the envelope. It still had the list of people to whom I was to send the postcards. It didn't contain the postcards; nor did it include the sharpie or campaign swag I was, to my surprise, supposed to get.
Yeah. Someone had torn the envelope open and taken everything that the thief thought was valuable.
It's either our postal carrier - sadly, a real possibility, since our current carrier has shown outrageously bad service - or someone in our section of the building. While having the postal carrier do this is truly bad, having someone from the building is bad, too. It's not the first time the building's had to deal with theft; we actually had to install security cams to deter theft, and until now, that had actually, you know, deterred it. But this?
Twenty five stamped postcards. A marker and some undoubtedly small piece of swag. Such petty, much selfish, wow.
I contacted the campaign, and they're going to see if they have postcards left to send me. I told them I don't need stamped postcards because I have enough postage to last me well into the next decade. I'm not kidding. And if they don't, I have a bunch of great postcards I can use.
In the meantime, I helped BB with his cards, which have to be mailed tomorrow.
Oh, and I put this up on the bulletin board next to our postboxes:
ATTENTION: To whoever opened the envelope addressed to me, from the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, and stole most of its contents - 25 stamped postcards, a Sharpie, and other items from the Alliance - SHAME ON YOU.
If you are a resident of our building - SHAME ON YOU. The items weren’t monetarily valuable, but they were an important part of a campaign I’m helping out.
If you are our postal carrier - SHAME ON YOU. You bring disrepute to your position, your union, and the USPS.
Whoever you are: what you did was petty, and selfish. That it’s also illegal goes without saying, but it’s the pettiness that really grinds me. So, once again: SHAME ON YOU.
*marches back into the house grumpily*