As I came home from the shops yesterday evening, I stopped by the cluster of mailboxes near the entrance to our neighborhood to pick up our mail. Something seemed a little different... then I noticed that the big blue *"outgoing mail"* box was gone. 

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Whereas it was not *quite* as large as the normal blue USPS mail drop boxes, it was still a large *"drive up"* style box, anchored to the ground with a steel plate and I-bar steel post. It was pick enough that I was able to drop off my smaller outgoing eBay packages in it.

It was sad... I guess it was yet another sign of *"service cutbacks."* It's a 7-mile drive to post office in town.

So *this morning* we got an email from the neighborhood association office... and evidently the mailbox *had been STOLEN!* 

In a sense, that is even *sadder.* The *"good word"* from the local police was that most likely the culprits were looking for checks in people's outgoing mail... not to *steal* those, but to use the check account numbers and routing numbers to forge new checks that would be used to criminally buy high dollar merchandise for other people's account.

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## *Meanwhile...*

Due to ever-rising prices, we decided to cancel our mail order *"subscription"* to kitty litter... it was $22.95 at the beginning of the year, and there was no sales tax because it came from out of state. It is now $31.99 PLUS tax, because of new regulations on sales taxes.

No big deal, right? 

As yet another example of *"how to get gouged,"* I discovered that there was *no place on the web site to cancel a monthly subscription!*

So... we're just supposed to keep *wanting* this stuff in perpetuity. even though you've made four price increases in 2022, already? Not bloody likely!

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## *Meanwhile... People Behaving Badly...*

So, this afternoon, Mrs. Denmarkguy was having a message exchange with a friend of ours who has been having severe financial difficulties for a couple of years, even as a medical doctor. After closing her clinic, she moved out of the country for a while, then came back to our state a couple of months back.

She managed to find a good job with a mobile clinic and was happy. 

But then — by some strange stroke of misfortune — one of her former employees happened to apply for a job at the same mobile clinic, and upon learning that our friend worked there, told a bunch of lies... evidently because she was still angry that the old clinic had closed and she'd been out of a job. 

Short version, our friend lost her nice job... not because of anything she'd *done,* but because the mobile clinic said they *"just didn't want the drama of personal vendettas"* in their workplace!

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## *What's the World Coming To?*

Maybe I'm just tagging myself as an Olde Pharte here, but *what the hell is the world coming to?*

I mean, this was all just *one day's news,* and it didn't seem like all that unusual a day. In a sense, it just all seemed to re-enforce why I have mostly hermit-like tendencies. I just don't want to be *part* of all that garbage! 

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