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Post number 8716

Oriole Adams — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:38:26 -0800

The J.W. Westcott II delivers toilet paper, the occasional pizza, and, most importantly, mail to freighters making their way through the Great Lakes. And now it's the only boat in the U.S. to be assigned it's own zip code.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:49:56 -0800

Actually, I doubt that's true. As I recall from fighting with zip code lists, Navy ships can have their own, too.

By: tj

tj — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 12:52:49 -0800

Correction: only commercial boat to have it's own zip.

By: rodii

rodii — Sat, 30 Jun 2001 14:05:05 -0800

I want my own zip. When will the Postal Service wise up and start selling vanity zips?

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 08:46:02 -0800

i want my own tug boat. it would be fun to work for this guy for a summer. Ore boats get to predictable.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 08:52:46 -0800

It's amazing the wack shit you find when you dig into the postal service.. I can kind of understand why some people who work there take it so seriously.. It's a huge insane system that actually pretty much works for a pretty much resonable cost.. Surface parcel mail is like a big huge unfaithful mistress.. Start trying to send 12" records internationally and you really find some illness..

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 01 Jul 2001 18:10:03 -0800

There are also lots of small mail boats on recreational lakes throughout the country. There's one in Wisconsin that pretty much goes by each dock at speed, and generally hires lithe young women to jump over, stick the mail in the box, and get back onto the boat before it's gone. To the entertainment of the boat's tourist passengers, especially when she doesn't make it ... (Really, it's good clean cheesehead fun.)