So i was delivering my mail route today and....

I kept adding up the dollar signs. I was delivering mail in a gated community today to help out another carrier and couldnt help but notice all the money I was passing up. the scrapper in me kicked in and all I wanted to do was rip them COPPER mailboxes off the post and throw them in the back of the mail truck then drive straight to the scrap yard. I bet I shoved mail into at least 100 copper mailboxes today. And if the house didnt have a copper mailbox they had a nice big BRASS address plate on the stone pillar in front of the house. I bet in the 200 houses I delivered mail to in this gated community I passed at least $3000 bucks worth of brass and coppper today.

And that's why they have gates.

Instead of three there would be FOUR threads on news reports about metal thefts today. But your post really made me lol 'cause I could just picture you ripping(no pun intended) off that brass and copper and stuffing it in your mailbag and running back and forth to your mail truck...then speeding off to the yard......then this......."Postal Worker Goes Postal for Brass and Copper" details at eleven.

LOL thats why I had to share it. I was literaly pulling up to the mailbox and saying that one has to be 10 pounds of copper. Wow look at that number plate its huge must be at least 30 pounds of brass. I just thaught it was funny and had to share :)

Once scrapping gets in your blood it stays there! Great story PTS.

Thats funny PTS, my mailman knows i scrap and tells me if i see him what he has seen on his route that day and where. just this week we opened the mail box to get the mail and there was a 5lb bumb bell there with our mail. wonder how it got there?