I need to respond to Gary North's latest link about the USPS as I had a very interesting conversation with out local post master. Could anyone supply me with his public e-mail address?

Thanks

Donna

-- Donna Messenger (donnaeli@yahoo.com), October 20, 1999

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I would like to know how to email Gary North as well. I have some interesting comments on a regional bank's "2000 compliant statement". I am a customer and they really are having a time of making it all work. lots of problems from the consumer side..

-- Ty Campbell (tcampbel@otfs.state.ga.us), October 20, 1999.

Now you've peaked our curiousity. Why not just put the info here? I am sure it would get to him.

-- a mom (I'm@ noseyperson.com), October 20, 1999.

Try icetylertx@aol.com

c/o Mrs.Grigg

-- ..- (dit@dot.dash), October 20, 1999.

gnorth@bigfoot.com

don't expect a personal reply.

-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), October 20, 1999.

Gary North has responded to our eMails only once, with one brief sentence. We were surprised at how cold he was. But we still send him info occasionally. We're grateful for his persistent work rooting out Y2K articles. But Paul Milne is nicer than Gary North! Oh well, maybe Gary gets zillions of eMails. But Homer Beanfang could give Gary a run for the money ;^)

We're hardly ones to gripe since we're wwaaaayyyyy behind on eMails. At least we send warm loving thoughts. We're on a new job, again can't connect for long :_( Plus at only 28,000 -- used to 49,333
Trying to earn the $$ to buy 2 bicycles before/if they sell out.

The best place to post insider glitch stories is right here on this Forum, which is lurked and mined by many.

Personally, we'd rather be stuck in a bunker with Paul Milne :-)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 20, 1999.

Well, I posted this on this forum about a week ago under the heading of "Have you asked your Post Office what it will be doing come Jan 1" or something close to that. For those of you who did not see that post, I will relay it again.

I have a good repore with my local post office. As part of my job, I must go to the post office on a daily basis. I will tell you I am located in a fairly large town in the Middle of WV. I do not want to disclose the name of the town as I do not want the postmen to get into trouble. If you e-mail me directly, I will tell you the name of the town the post office is located in. I simply do not want it to be "public" and would appreciate it if no one would disclose it publically.

That said, I am prepping for Y2K and have asked a great many people if they are prepping. On that day, I asked the two postal workers if the Post Office was compliant. The smirked and looked at each other. They told me they had upgraded to the "new" postal computer system just last year. They had received a memo from their management that those computers were not compliant and that the software that was currently being developed to make them compliant would not be available by Jan 1, 2000 and they did not know when it would be. They told me that, as of Jan 1, 2000, they would be putting a manual scale on the counter and doing everything by hand. They will be using a piece of paper with the rate tables on it to figure rates. They were NOT kidding. Looks like "the check is in the mail" is going to be SOP come 2000.

-- Donna Messenger (Donnaeli@yahoo.com), October 20, 1999.

Ashton & Leska,

If you do have the opportunity of spending quality time with Paul... Would you please ask if him to respond with some proof on the failure of Ericsson Telecom Systems - according to him they have been falling right and left due to the Y2k bug.

-- william holst (w_holst@hotmail.com), October 20, 1999.

William, the odds of our spending any time with Paul are this:

#1 Win the lottery
#2 Y2K is less than a BITR
#3 We go to the Milne Party with y'all next summer for Crow Potluck and Polly Chicken Gauntlet Dance.

Don't know if Gary North is invited, if he'd show up ;^)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 20, 1999.

Donna

I wrote down an e-mail not too long ago from GN's site for his secretary, Mrs. Griggs. It was: ice@ballistic.com Don't know if this is for real or not.

Good luck, Karen

-- Karen (barbinst@wcta.net), October 20, 1999.

I'm surprised Stephen Poole didn't help you out with North's fax address. North reported on an AmEx incident that Poole and friends think is a fake. This is Poole's typical reaction (it's on the main page, just scroll down).

There is only one possible response to this one.

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Posted by (209.214.109.167) Stephen M. Poole, TTMHMIY2K on October 19, 1999 at 16:12:32:

In Reply to: does this sound a bit fishy? posted by fearless fred on October 19, 1999 at 16:00:21:

Here's the boy's fax number:

: 501-839-4193.

Let's everyone in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD send him faxes of the first thing you can lay your hands on. Pictures of dancing chickens. Charts displaying a breakdown of shoesize vs. IQ (that'd be a GOOD one). And three (3) pages selected at random from a 1967 phone book.

Let's get to work!

-- Stephen

-- Mail (bombing@is.childish), October 20, 1999.

"Looks like "the check is in the mail" is going to be SOP come 2000."

OK, I give up. What's "SOP"?

-- thought I knew (all@the.acronyms), October 20, 1999.

Standard Operating Procedure

-- walt (walt@lcs.k12.ne.us), October 20, 1999.

-- Gary North (gnorth@garynorth.com), October 20, 1999.

What's up with the public school system with stuff like "peaked" our curiousty...? try piqued.

"repore"? try raport...

gadzooks what's happening dudes??

-- rancherdick (muffinman@dontstepinthecowpie.com), October 20, 1999.

Um, RD, it's "rapport."

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 20, 1999.