Does anyone else's postman suspect them of being a spy?

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Does anyone else's postman suspect them of being a spy?

Madferret
This morning I got a pack of these in the post:



I think my Postman is starting to think that with all the packages containing electronics equipment from China and Russia that I'm some sort of communist spy, explaining that it was a box of transistors only seemed to make matters worse *facepalm*
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Jon the Art Guy
AHAHAHA nice!
I think my postman either thinks of me as "that jerk that yells at me when I destroy another magazine", or "that dirty liberal hippy down the block" (I live in a rural, religious, and very conservative part of northern California).
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Madferret
I thought everyone in California was a liberal hippy?  Are you saying movies have lied to me again?  DAMN YOU HOLLYWOOD!!!
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Jon the Art Guy
yea, I dunno how surf either. Also, I'm pasty and chubby. :|

It's really weird here. The elections were...eye opening. My wife's currently trying to get a position as a teacher in London, so I may end up being an ex-pat anyway. Personally, I'd like to be able to visit places like Florence and Bruge, instead of stupid Baton Rouge.

ooh, I feel a song coming on....that's a good rhyme.
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Madferret
Definitely visit Florence, one of my girlfriends oldest friends lives there now so we went to visit her last year.  I was completely blown away by how beautiful it is, we went to a Noel Gallagher gig there too which was excellent because the venue was much smaller that it would have been in the UK where he'd only play arenas.
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Jon the Art Guy
My Masters degree would have been in Art History had I stuck with college, and Florence was pretty much the epicenter for the Renaissance evolution of art due to the Di Medicis. I would be remiss in my art-nerd credentials if I didn't go there.
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Madferret
You'll love it, the architecture is amazing and there's a plaza full of sculptures next to the old town hall.  We were lucky that our friend has lived there for a few years and speaks fluent Italian so we essentially had our own tour guide for the stay, excellent.

 
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Madferret
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IvIark
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Never mind the post man, I was expecting Special Branch to kick my door down when my GT402's arrived, they must look just like bullets on an x-ray machine.
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Madferret
Haha, if you see a pizza delivery van across the road that doesn't move for a couple of days, it's time to start being scared!
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Dave
Guys guys, relax! Just tell em you needed some trannies for your muff, they'll understand....honest!
Dave
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alex.s
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Haven't received any of those Cyrillic or Chinese packets yet, all I know is that my postman is italian and tries to chat up my girlfriend in italian just because he sees my italian name on the post she collects.
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Heath
I live in an apartment, so I kind of worry that a maintenance person is going to pop in to work on something and see these packs with Chinese addresses, Russian labeled valves/tubes, soldering stuff bathroom counter covered with a plastic drop cloth, metal enclosures, jugs of mineral spirits, naptha, rubber gloves... UNIBOMBER!!!