Blackdog Lin
5-1-13, 7:49pm
Well, it's probably a story that isn't gonna translate when I try to type it out - but will try anyway.
(1) I retired last year after 32 years (and 4 months!) with the USPS, which was almost all of my working life (I only worked 4 full-time years in the private sector.) My whole life WAS the USPS, it seemed like. My job frequently challenged me, and I was always proud of both persevering through all the crap, and being a career employee.
(2) In the, I think it was the later 80's (I forgot to look it up before starting this thread) several sets of lobby decorations that "corporate" sent out to us all were very realistic professionally-done heavy cardboard stamp replicas. They were all accurate right down to the perforated edges, and depending on the stamps were around 8"x11", and 11"x14". We hung them with fishing line from the Post Office lobby ceiling.
At the end of the "campaign" it was mandated that they be destroyed. But they were so beautiful, so gorgeous, so well-done! I couldn't stand that they were just going to be thrown away. I spoke to my Postmaster who agreed to look away the day(s) I rescued them from the trashcan. I recovered 6 various "stamps" that year. (please don't let it out that I am in possession of stolen federal property!) :)
Come the late '90's and I have an entry wall that needs a wall-hanging, remember those stamps, end up having 3 of them professionally matted/framed, and have enjoyed them even since. The one hanging in my entry is just.....beautiful. It's one of the Christmas Angel stamps (you know, some years are Madonnas and some used to be Angels), from a totally beautiful painting, and the guy did an awesome job with the mat and frame, and I've loved it ever since I hung it. Not only is it a gorgeous wall-hanging, but that it refers to both my belief in angels looking over me and my lifelong working career.....it's just a very cool thing in my house.
Okay, the story was too long. Here's the punch line that has me gobsmacked. Amazed. Awestruck at the synchronicity of the universe. Whatever. And I didn't even realize it till last week, just casually walking through the entry, glancing at the beautiful picture on the wall, and.....whoa! Check it out! Is that too cool or what?!!!
The stamps in question, that I have framed and hanging in our house, are 32-cent stamps. They have a large 32 on them.
(1) I retired last year after 32 years (and 4 months!) with the USPS, which was almost all of my working life (I only worked 4 full-time years in the private sector.) My whole life WAS the USPS, it seemed like. My job frequently challenged me, and I was always proud of both persevering through all the crap, and being a career employee.
(2) In the, I think it was the later 80's (I forgot to look it up before starting this thread) several sets of lobby decorations that "corporate" sent out to us all were very realistic professionally-done heavy cardboard stamp replicas. They were all accurate right down to the perforated edges, and depending on the stamps were around 8"x11", and 11"x14". We hung them with fishing line from the Post Office lobby ceiling.
At the end of the "campaign" it was mandated that they be destroyed. But they were so beautiful, so gorgeous, so well-done! I couldn't stand that they were just going to be thrown away. I spoke to my Postmaster who agreed to look away the day(s) I rescued them from the trashcan. I recovered 6 various "stamps" that year. (please don't let it out that I am in possession of stolen federal property!) :)
Come the late '90's and I have an entry wall that needs a wall-hanging, remember those stamps, end up having 3 of them professionally matted/framed, and have enjoyed them even since. The one hanging in my entry is just.....beautiful. It's one of the Christmas Angel stamps (you know, some years are Madonnas and some used to be Angels), from a totally beautiful painting, and the guy did an awesome job with the mat and frame, and I've loved it ever since I hung it. Not only is it a gorgeous wall-hanging, but that it refers to both my belief in angels looking over me and my lifelong working career.....it's just a very cool thing in my house.
Okay, the story was too long. Here's the punch line that has me gobsmacked. Amazed. Awestruck at the synchronicity of the universe. Whatever. And I didn't even realize it till last week, just casually walking through the entry, glancing at the beautiful picture on the wall, and.....whoa! Check it out! Is that too cool or what?!!!
The stamps in question, that I have framed and hanging in our house, are 32-cent stamps. They have a large 32 on them.