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[Dan]

Didn't mean that as an insult, just an observation to someone I consider a friend. You must be awfully conflicted to believe in both nationalism and anarchy. I guess you could call that being extremely open minded. I try and keep my beliefs to a minimum, it makes it easier for me to be happy.

I didn't take it as an insult friend.

 

[beaksnbeer]

You better believe I am. Dont have the gonads to do something really life changing. I'm weak in that aspect.

Well Dan, not exactly true(at least from my point of view) You are currently changing up ALL of your comfort areas to give up what you have for what may be. Pretty sure that takes a little testicular fortitude

 

[Stauffbier]

My package was found and delivered today. It was supposedly misplaced at the post office. Odd, since according to the tracking website it was delivered at 5:24PM yesterday. Either way, I'm just glad it arrived. Ironically the other package that was also listed as delivered over a week ago mysteriously arrived today too. USPS appears to have some serious issues these days. Perhaps it's because they're going broke?!

 

[TNGabe]

My package was found and delivered today. It was supposedly misplaced at the post office. Odd, since according to the tracking website it was delivered at 5:24PM yesterday. Either way, I'm just glad it arrived. Ironically the other package that was also listed as delivered over a week ago mysteriously arrived today too. USPS appears to have some serious issues these days. Perhaps it's because they're going broke?!

Or why they're going broke...

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Howdy late nighters,

Other than beers with spices, what brews do you associate with christmas/winter?

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

USPS is one of the better-run government services. They got saddled with an unreasonable debt burden due to Congress, and yet are still providing service and making ends meet. If you really think about the energy to get a package or letter from point A to point B, they are a pretty good deal.

I used to live in a town where my address and the address to the town hall were very similar (and we were in fact only about 100 yards apart on different streets). Not often, but occaisionally, things got crossed up; I'd get something for town hall, they something for me. I just made a habit of walking over to see the town clerk for an exchange. It happens.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Howdy late nighters,

Other than beers with spices, what brews do you associate with christmas/winter?

Hot mulled cider with dark rum. I'm looking to try this with apfelwein too.

BTW - just put 6 gallons of apfelwein in the fermenter. I feel better when my fermenters are being productive - empty fermenters make me sad.

 

[brewingmeister]

Howdy late nighters,

Other than beers with spices, what brews do you associate with christmas/winter?

Fresh hopped IPA's

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Hot mulled cider with dark rum. I'm looking to try this with apfelwein too.

BTW - just put 6 gallons of apfelwein in the fermenter. I feel better when my fermenters are being productive - empty fermenters make me sad.

Ive a cyster that I might try that with, probably should add a apfelwein to a fermenter.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Fresh hopped IPA's

Lol, true, but thats my all seasons brew

 

[TNGabe]

Howdy late nighters,

Other than beers with spices, what brews do you associate with christmas/winter?

Xmas is my high ABV time of the year.

 

[Stauffbier]

Or why they're going broke...

I'm pretty sure it's our new tech world that's killing them in general.

USPS is one of the better-run government services. They got saddled with an unreasonable debt burden due to Congress, and yet are still providing service and making ends meet. If you really think about the energy to get a package or letter from point A to point B, they are a pretty good deal.

I used to live in a town where my address and the address to the town hall were very similar (and we were in fact only about 100 yards apart on different streets). Not often, but occaisionally, things got crossed up; I'd get something for town hall, they something for me. I just made a habit of walking over to see the town clerk for an exchange. It happens.

I would tend to agree, but it happens way too much here in my city. I think it's more of a competence issue here.

Xmas is my high ABV time of the year.

Me too!

 

[Stauffbier]

Do any of you have any clue or idea as to what these little creatures are? At first I thought they were just tiny, dried up leaves, and then they started crawling around. Sorry for the poor photo quality...

 

[TNGabe]

I'm pretty sure it's our new tech world that's killing them in general.

I have to drive to the post office because they don't bring packages to my house. 'Nough said.

 

[bottlebomber]

Do any of you have any clue or idea as to what these little creatures are? At first I thought they were just tiny, dried up leaves, and then they started crawling around. Sorry for the poor photo quality...

Zombie barley.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Do any of you have any clue or idea as to what these little creatures are? At first I thought they were just tiny, dried up leaves, and then they started crawling around. Sorry for the poor photo quality...

Spent grains in the breeze? Like dust in the wind?

 

[Stauffbier]

Zombie barley.

Spent grains in the breeze? Like dust in the wind?

Considering all of the spent grain I dump around here, those ideas aren't far fetched.

Whatever they are, they tend to live under things like flower pots, trash cans, etc. It's weird to see them start crawling around. I'm guessing it's some kind of cocoon or something.

 

[Stauffbier]

I have to drive to the post office because they don't bring packages to my house. 'Nough said.

In that case, I'd say that's a budget issue. If it's always been that way where you live, then it's just a sucky issue.

 

[TNGabe]

In that case, I'd say that's a budget issue. If it's always been that way where you live, then it's just a sucky issue.

Been that way the four years I've lived here. UPS and FedEx both manage to make it all the way up my driveway, USPS can't even manage to tell me who the sender is on the card in my mail box. I'm inclined to say it's a personnel issue. With a FedEx account, I'll just drive the extra 10 minutes to drop off there when I'm shipping.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Do any of you have any clue or idea as to what these little creatures are? At first I thought they were just tiny, dried up leaves, and then they started crawling around. Sorry for the poor photo quality...

Hard to say. They look too small to be moth cocoons in that photo, and moth cocoons don't crawl around. How long are they?

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I would tend to agree, but it happens way too much here in my city. I think it's more of a competence issue here.

True, but it only takes one bad postal employee to piss off a lot of people on a route. Sounds like a local issue and not something necessarily systemic to the organization. It it were systemic everybody would be hollering.

You could always contact the post office and file a complaint. The post office does not normally get customer feedback in the spirit of "no news is good news". If you speak up something might get fixed.

 

[TNGabe]

True, but it only takes one bad postal employee to piss off a lot of people on a route. Sounds like a local issue and not something necessarily systemic to the organization. It it were systemic everybody would be hollering.

Right, no one ever complains about the post office.

 

[emjay]

Some sort of larvae. Look kind of like maggots to me...

 

[Stauffbier]

Hard to say. They look too small to be moth cocoons in that photo, and moth cocoons don't crawl around. How long are they?

I'd say they are about 3/8".. It appears as though an extremely small head and torso pop out of one end and basically drag the "cocoon" around.

True, but it only takes one bad postal employee to piss off a lot of people on a route. Sounds like a local issue and not something necessarily systemic to the organization. It it were systemic everybody would be hollering.

You could always contact the post office and file a complaint. The post office does not normally get customer feedback in the spirit of "no news is good news". If you speak up something might get fixed.

I agree that it's local to my part of town. At least as far as I know. The people at my local post office are literally some of the most rude, unfriendly people I have met. Rivaled only to the folks at my local DPS. I worry that if I complain that my horrible service will get even worse!

 

[Stauffbier]

Some sort of larvae. Look kind of like maggots to me...

They aren't slimy and gross like a maggot, though. For that matter they aren't larvae-like at all. They literally look and feel like a dried up little leaf. Very similar to the little leaves that fall from either mimosa or bird of paradise.

 

[CGVT]

Are they Aphids?

Are they on the undersides of leaves on your plants? They were over running the Crepe Myrtles in my yard. I hit them with neem oil and got them under control

 

[Leadgolem]

My package was found and delivered today. It was supposedly misplaced at the post office. Odd, since according to the tracking website it was delivered at 5:24PM yesterday. Either way, I'm just glad it arrived. Ironically the other package that was also listed as delivered over a week ago mysteriously arrived today too. USPS appears to have some serious issues these days. Perhaps it's because they're going broke?!

I worked for the USPS call center a few years ago. I think I can explain the scan codes you saw.

The first package was probably supposed to be scanned, "arrived at delivery office". Somebody had the scan gun set for the wrong "delivered" code. So everything showed delivered instead of as arriving at the office. It's not that hard to do, the codes are numerical. If you fat finger one you can get some really odd things showing up on the website tracking info.

The second one isn't that big of a mystery either. The person who got your box was honest. Whomever got your box put it back out for the mailman. Most delivery mix ups happen on the same route, so your mailman probably just dropped it off at the correct address with the rest of his stuff.

...Yeah, your post office does seem to be slightly incompetent. Most of them are much better.

Well Dan, not exactly true(at least from my point of view) You are currently changing up ALL of your comfort areas to give up what you have for what may be. Pretty sure that takes a little testicular fortitude

I have to find a way to use testicular fortitude in a sentence now... hmm.

Right, no one ever complains about the post office.

Sure they do, but very few people actually file complaints.

I'd say they are about 3/8".. It appears as though an extremely small head and torso pop out of one end and basically drag the "cocoon" around.


I agree that it's local to my part of town. At least as far as I know. The people at my local post office are literally some of the most rude, unfriendly people I have met. Rivaled only to the folks at my local DPS. I worry that if I complain that my horrible service will get even worse!

It might interest you to know that if you file a complaint through the usps 800 number they all go to the actual postmaster for the delivery office. The postmaster generals office also sometimes monitors those reports, so the offices can't blow them off.

They aren't slimy and gross like a maggot, though. For that matter they aren't larvae-like at all. They literally look and feel like a dried up little leaf. Very similar to the little leaves that fall from either mimosa or bird of paradise.

Hmm, maybe something's larvae wraps leaves around it's self and uses it as camouflage? They remind me a bit of caddisfly, but those larvae like to live in the water. They will make a kind of shell around their back ends with whatever is at hand.

 

[Stauffbier]

Are they Aphids?

Are they on the undersides of leaves on your plants? They were over running the Crepe Myrtles in my yard. I hit them with neem oil and got them under control

I'm pretty sure they're not aphids. I don't have aphids on my Crepe Myrtles or anything else for that matter. I don't think the leaf looking part is actually a leaf. I think it just resembles one.

I worked for the USPS call center a few years ago. I think I can explain the scan codes you saw.

The first package was probably supposed to be scanned, "arrived at delivery office". Somebody had the scan gun set for the wrong "delivered" code. So everything showed delivered instead of as arriving at the office. It's not that hard to do, the codes are numerical. If you fat finger one you can get some really odd things showing up on the website tracking info.

The second one isn't that big of a mystery either. The person who got your box was honest. Whomever got your box put it back out for the mailman. Most delivery mix ups happen on the same route, so your mailman probably just dropped it off at the correct address with the rest of his stuff.

...Yeah, your post office does seem to be slightly incompetent. Most of them are much better.



Sure they do, but very few people actually file complaints.
It might interest you to know that if you file a complaint through the usps 800 number they all go to the actual postmaster for the delivery office. The postmaster generals office also sometimes monitors those reports, so the offices can't blow them off.
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That makes sense as to why it happened, but it seems like they make this type of mistake way too often. To be honest, I recognize the young man that delivers packages. He's been doing it for about 2 years now. He's a nice kid, so I hate to think he's not competent. Nice kid doesn't equal smart kid, so who knows..

I tried to complain on the 800 number. After being on hold for about 27 minutes the lady who answered acted like I was lying. Then she said "hold on a second" and hung up on me. I didn't have the patience to hold for another 27 minutes at that point.

Hmm, maybe something's larvae wraps leaves around it's self and uses it as camouflage? They remind me a bit of caddisfly, but those larvae like to live in the water. They will make a kind of shell around their back ends with whatever is at hand

I know what your talking about I think. If it's what I'm thinking of we used to hunt for them under rocks in streams. They would build their cocoons from tiny riverbed rocks. We would remove the larvae from the rock cocoons and use them as fish bait.

With that said, these insects aren't really anything like those.

 

[Leadgolem]

..I tried to complain on the 800 number. After being on hold for about 27 minutes the lady who answered acted like I was lying. Then she said "hold on a second" and hung up on me. I didn't have the patience to hold for another 27 minutes at that point.

Wow, that would have gotten me fired in a cold minute when I worked there.

I know what your talking about I think. If it's what I'm thinking of we used to hunt for them under rocks in streams. They would build their cocoons from tiny riverbed rocks. We would remove the larvae from the rock cocoons and use them as fish bait.

With that said, these insects aren't really anything like those.

That's what I used to use them for too.

 

[passedpawn]

Do any of you have any clue or idea as to what these little creatures are? At first I thought they were just tiny, dried up leaves, and then they started crawling around. Sorry for the poor photo quality...

casemaking clothes moth larvae. Also case-bearing clothes moth. We get a lot of these down here.