baxter culver wrote:
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> Many years ago, while stationed at an Army post in Germany, my dear sweet
> mother baked a large batch of X-Mas cookies and entrusted them to my father
> for mailing. He, always a bit tight with his cash, sent them "surface" rather
> than pay the additional postage for airmail. They arrived, as I recall, in the
> month of February--tasting a bit salty, and hard as bricks. Surface, it
> seems, was the slowest boat the US Postal Service could hire. It still is!
That happened to me when I was in England serving in the USAF. My mother sent
Banana Nut Bread and by the time it arrived, it was one solid block of
mold!!!
Joe
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