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Doug called to let me know that he had received a package. His mail lady, who is familiar with this ongoing prank, brought it up to the house and came inside with it. She wanted to let Doug know that her supervisor paraded it around the Post Office showing it to her coworkers before it went out for delivery.

P1190424 by Mike McCrea, on Flickr

I am not sure what Doug did to deserve this, but it brings much joy to his post office. And to mine, where the postmistress starts laughing as soon as I walk in the door, and is visibly disappointed when it is just a plain package for someone else.
 
Gear review ha!! The real burning question is, does that come with instructions? And let's be practical here, given the nature of our collective passion (I'm talking about canoe tripping people), is it traditional wood, or more modern kevlar? Straight shaft or bent?

Place your bets ladies and gentlemen, or submit a suggestion. I say it's actually a wind sail.
 
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Bingo! Odyssey wins! And the winner gets to be McCrea's new best friend, please send him your mailing address and any other important contact info! ;-)
 

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Odyssey said:
Place your bets ladies and gentlemen, or submit a suggestion. I say it's actually a wind sail.
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Dingdingding. We already have a winner.

The tubular package held a new midsized Spirit Sail. An outfitter friend had a couple of Spirit Sails remaining in stock, but none of the critical Y pieces that attach the sail battens to the basemount, which is actually just a Scotty rod base.

Knowing how much I enjoy those sails he gave them to me. I knew Doug uses a Spirit Sail, and that he has two of those Y pieces, one bought as a spare back when Spirit Sail was still in business.

Doug got a package a couple weeks ago with one of those yoga block canoe consoles. The faux contents label on that package was pretty bad, or good, depending on whether you are the recipient or sender.

Doug said that I had set the bar so high that further packages might seem mundane. I took that as a challenge.

I will leave it to Doug to share tales of that disturbing package and substitute postmen, who were not familiar with the joke, tossing boxes on the porch and running back to their vehicle for hand sanitizer.

I eventually met Dougs wonderful mail lady, fortunately after multiple packages had arrived over the years, and was pleased that she in on and enjoyed the joke. The very first demented mail package took her, and Doug, by surprise.

Dougs first surprise, before seeing the faux company label, was seeing his gracious and friendly mail lady not give his dog a biscuit as usual, but toss a package on the steps and sprint away. He had to meet her roadside the next day and stammer an explanation.

BTW, the faux label on Dougs most recent online order fulfillment sported 100 point font. But sadly, no graphics as in the past. That could be the next challenge.
 
dougd said:
Bingo! Odyssey wins! And the winner gets to be McCrea's new best friend, please send him your mailing address and any other important contact info! ;-)
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Oh, I already have Brads mailing address. Canadian shipping costs keep him safe. And free of folding snooker tables.

Doug, in all likelihood Karen will be using that sail as much as anyone. Maybe I should have addressed it to her?

No? Keep labeling you as the recipient? OK, as you wish.
 
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Oh, I already have Brads mailing address. Canadian shipping costs keep him safe. And free of folding snooker tables.
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As much as I might need a new bestie, I'm not that hard up to be publicly shamed. I can manage that entirely on my own, thank you very much. And doing a fine job right now as it happens. No, sending me enticing hints of a dark world wouldn't suit my situation, as my local post office is located in and overseen by the evangelical Christian pharmacist/owner in that establishment. "Uplifting greeting card with your orthotics Mrs Saunders? Just got in a new batch last week. Right over there in aisle two." "Something else with your hemorrhoid cream Mr Van Buren? How about a cassette tape of The Christmas Chorale in Central Park. Greatly reduced to half off right now." They are actually very nice people in the pharmacy. Lovely to deal with. I drop in to send and pick up parcels, and have never had an issue. Receiving plain paper parcels labelled in terse bold letters with suggestive sexual contents might change all that. Even though I'm not an Evangelical philatelist, I'd worry my new best friend might threaten my place in the pharmacy flock, so to speak. I wonder? Can I be excommunicated from a pharmacy?
 
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This thread takes me back to one on another very popular Canadian canoe site. It was one of those endless gripe threads about Algonquian park where someone had stolen their campsite. I wrote in and told them to release their inner pirate, sneak into their camp late at night, drink all their grog and impregnate their ladies, then paddle quietly away in the pre-dawn mist. My post was removed and I was privately flogged for promoting "rape culture".

Wonder what ruckus this thread would generate, LOL!
 
Odyssey said:
Okay, I've shot my mouth off, so now I'll shut it. Way too much ribald stuff from me.

Nice looking windsail, eh!? Shiver me timbers.
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not for me though if I received said package I would require instructions.. Oh and Mem the librarian is out.
 
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