AntiPostal
“Neither accuracy nor lawns nor talking to customers nor the calling of mother nature stays these couriers
from the really, really, really swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
A Brief History of AntiPostal
AntiPostal, a slightly irreverent look at the United States Postal Business through the gradually disgruntled eyes of a twenty five year letter carrier
in Bay Village, Ohio. His name is Jimmy Hurricane
Havran and this website is entirely his fault. Most of the articles here were published originally in a newsletter about the Bay Village Post Office whimsically called The
Monthly Freedom-Observer
and known to the employees there as the MFO
. The MFO, a monthly newsletter about the daily mishaps and misfortunes of employees of the Bay Village post office, began publishing in January, 1996.
Going online necessitated a name change from the beguiling Monthly Freedom-Observer
to something more Internet-search-engine-friendly
that more accurately reflected content and the more apropos PostAge
was conceived. AntiPostal.com became the Internet host. The articles published in PostAge deemed likely to interest a more general readership have been gleaned from those pages and posted here.
If you're a postal employee,PostAge might be of some interest to you also, but most of the content requires some foreknowledge not only about the postal business,
but of the employees around whom the stories are written. PostAge has stories that are more relative to the specific audience of the Bay Village workforce, though the general public and more certainly other
postal employees will find a laugh or two scattered throughout. AntiPostal is more generic and its appeal is to a broader readership.
In fact, some of the hair-pulling stories may well explain the disgruntled attitude of the stamp selling clerk you are greeted by at your
local post office or the discovery of tattered mail frantically crammed down your mail slot by your long gone postal mailman.