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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 22674766, member: 100459&quot;]There&#039;s many ways you can lose a package.&nbsp; I live about 15 miles outside of the nearest town, therefore, my mail is delivered to me in a mailbox on the street.&nbsp; I live about a mile down a dirt road from our mailbox.&nbsp; Thankfully, I have not lost a coin, but I have lost several other things.&nbsp; In order to preserve the packages that are sent to me, I contacted the Postmaster in writing to hold all packages.&nbsp; When a package is mailed to me, the Postmaster makes a form up telling me she is holding a package for me.&nbsp; It&#039;s still bothersome to have to got another 15 miles to the rural post office to pick up a package.</p><p>As for coin purchases, I receive some in a box, some in a soft bubble wrap package and some in a padded envelope.&nbsp; Luckily, I&#039;ve not lost them either.</p><p>I love living in a rural community because we know who our neighbors are and if there is someone that doesn&#039;t fit in the &quot;neighborhood, we start a call-around to find out who they are and why would they be in deep woods.&nbsp; Some are legit, but its nice to know your neighbors.&nbsp; Most of our neighbors are hunters as well and own vicious hunting dogs.&nbsp; My wife taught in the neighborhood and taught almost everyone that went to school at the high school she taught at.&nbsp; After being married 26 years, they still call her &quot;Miss Register&quot; (her maiden name).&nbsp; And I am still a yankee after living in North Carolina since I was 21.&nbsp; I even served our country at Fort Bragg which is about 50 miles from her parents.&nbsp; If anyone saw me doing something, my wife would know about it before I got home.</p><p>Sorry for running my story.&nbsp; Let&#039;s hope we don&#039;t have too many problems with the mail system.&nbsp; Have you seen what it&#039;s like in Argentina and Uruguay.&nbsp; I was a missionary for our church and served in Uruguay and Argentina.&nbsp; Each month, my father would send me a check for $90 for room and board.&nbsp; One month, the check didn&#039;t arrive.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t call him because a call to the states was about $30 a minute, so contact was made by letter.&nbsp; He told me (after waiting 2 months to get a letter from him) that the check had been cashed.&nbsp; Luckily, I had enough money to support me until my next check, which turned out to be a check book to write my own check.&nbsp; Anyway, when I finally got back home, I asked my dad to show me the check.&nbsp; When he showed it to me, it was obvious that it was not my handwriting.&nbsp; The bank would not reimburse us because it had been cashed over a year ago.</p><p>So.. be thankful you don&#039;t live in a mail system in South America.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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