Night Owl Cards

I pulled this card out of my mailbox on Friday. It arrived from mr haverkamp and it was nice of him to knock off a Nebulous 9 need, as this card truly, truly finishes off the 1964 Topps Dodgers set for me. The card arrived in a small, slightly rumpled, plain white envelope, not tall or wide enough for me to see when I looked into the mailbox at first glance. When I took it out of the box, I noticed the time stamp on the envelope: Aug. 28. Hmmm. This was Sept. 11. Fifteen days to arrive at my address -- even from California -- is a stretch. The note inside tipped me off further to a delay. Jim is a Giants fan -- yes, very sad, I know -- and he says "here's to a (hopefully) awesome Giant-Dodger September!" Well, at the time I pulled the envelope out of the mailbox, the Dodgers were 8 1/2 games in front of the Giants and had effectively put them out of any realistic hopes of a pennant race (although these are the devil magic Giants, so one never knows). No fan o...

I received a PWE in the mail from Tony of Off Hiatus Baseball Cards . The above request to the USPS was on the front. When I send out PWEs, I'm not quite as direct. I put a little line at the bottom on the back that says "nonmachinable" and cross my fingers. Since I haven't received any complaints, I'm assuming that does the trick. Maybe the USPS gets stirred up by exclamation points. Because this is what arrived in the mailbox: No. Not the black boxes. I placed those there. Please focus your attention on the rip that begins north and travels all the way south. Imagine that you can see the continuation of the rip underneath the black box. Now imagine seeing the envelope wide open at the center and the contents visible out in the mailbox. "Hoo-boy," I said to myself. "This isn't good." It turns out it was just fine. The cards were stored in one-third of a nine-pocket page, cut length-wise. That is the page folded ove...