Sue The Post Office

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060222/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_mail">Justices Allow Postal Customers to Sue</a><br />n<br />nI saw this headline and got very excited. Maybe I could use the threat of a lawsuit to get our local Post Office to let me have my mail instead of holding it for weeks on end before finally deciding to give it to me. It really gets old after awhile to get bundles of mail suspiciously grouped together by date that are up to 2 months old all of a sudden in a big burst when you pick up mail. But, it's not to be.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Postal Service can be sued by a woman who tripped over mail left on her porch.<br />n<br />nThe 7-1 decision revived a Pennsylvania woman's claim that she was entitled to damages after suffering wrist and back injuries during the 2001 fall at her home in suburban Philadelphia. The letters, packages and periodicals were put on Barbara Dolan's porch instead of in her mailbox.<br />n<br />nJustice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, dismissed government concerns of costly litigation.<br />n<br />n…<br />n<br />nJustices had been asked to interpret a federal law that bars lawsuits over the "loss, miscarriage or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter." The court said the law did not cover Dolan's claim.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo you see the "loss, miscarriage or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter" did not come into play in this suit so I don't have a leg to stand on. Maybe I will just trip and fall on the way out of the Post Office with all my bundles of delayed mail and then sue them. That just might work, I will consider it.<br />n<br />n<b>A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. Albert Camus<br />n<br />nThe way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks. Emo Philips</b>