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<p>[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 2850709, member: 89393"]I get it that if I lived in Florida and were to sell a fairly rare coin to [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] and the Weather Channel just upgraded a disturbance in the middle of the Atlantic that might make it here in a couple of weeks, that I could just take my good old time to sending it out to him. </p><p><br /></p><p>But [USER=71642]@Stork[/USER] I realize that nothing is impossible but do you really believe that an envelope I drop off at the post office — you know, in that place for people to pull down a door and drop their envelope(s) in on, say, a Monday morning — could sit there for a whole week? The post office nearest my house has so much mail in its boxes that if you go up there to mail something on a Sunday afternoon, the box is so overstuffed that you can't even get the door to open. What are the chances that this could happen THREE times to a single recipient, and each one of those times was from a sender in Florida (assuming, of course, that the sender posted his mail before everyone in the post office lost it and the local postmaster told them to close up shop)? We need someone deep into probability theory, but maybe it's close to winning the $700Million Powerball jackpot.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the postmark stamp, I hope they are visible, but as I mentioned in #6 above, a seller in Oldsmar FL contacted me on the 5th and presumably mailed his envelope to me that same day or the very next and it arrived today; that's five days with a weekend from Southern Florida. The postmark on his envelope is illegible, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 2850709, member: 89393"]I get it that if I lived in Florida and were to sell a fairly rare coin to [USER=76863]@baseball21[/USER] and the Weather Channel just upgraded a disturbance in the middle of the Atlantic that might make it here in a couple of weeks, that I could just take my good old time to sending it out to him. But [USER=71642]@Stork[/USER] I realize that nothing is impossible but do you really believe that an envelope I drop off at the post office — you know, in that place for people to pull down a door and drop their envelope(s) in on, say, a Monday morning — could sit there for a whole week? The post office nearest my house has so much mail in its boxes that if you go up there to mail something on a Sunday afternoon, the box is so overstuffed that you can't even get the door to open. What are the chances that this could happen THREE times to a single recipient, and each one of those times was from a sender in Florida (assuming, of course, that the sender posted his mail before everyone in the post office lost it and the local postmaster told them to close up shop)? We need someone deep into probability theory, but maybe it's close to winning the $700Million Powerball jackpot. As for the postmark stamp, I hope they are visible, but as I mentioned in #6 above, a seller in Oldsmar FL contacted me on the 5th and presumably mailed his envelope to me that same day or the very next and it arrived today; that's five days with a weekend from Southern Florida. The postmark on his envelope is illegible, though.[/QUOTE]
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