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Old 12-04-2014, 06:13 AM
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Dumpster diving? Hardly! : - )

I am a letter carrier (mailman). As I pulled up to the corner with my truck to knock out a couple of loops, there were the scorecards right there in the garbage! I could not believe it! I put them in the back of the truck until I got back to the station, then took them home.

On another route I had, I was talking to one of my customers who told me: "My son left his baseball cards here, but he doesn't want them." He said he was going to shop them around. I told him to give me first refusal after he had come up with a value. After a few months, he never followed up and simply gave me the an entire shoe box jammed with cards. They were late 1960s / early 1970s. The biggest thing in there was a 1967 Clemente. I needed that one. As a thank you, I got him a gift card for a restaurant in the area so he and his wife could have a nice night out.

There are so many stories I could tell, I have been on the job over 22 years. And I have loved every minute of it!
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