{"id":640,"date":"2007-06-21T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/21\/2007-6-21-night-of-the-magnetic-postman-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:28:13","slug":"2007-6-21-night-of-the-magnetic-postman-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/2007-6-21-night-of-the-magnetic-postman-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Of The Magnetic Postman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friends,<\/p>\n

I stopped by the post office with the car insurance payments and knowing that the lobby doors are usually locked, I was going to put the envelope in the box outside. The Jeep was running, wallet and cell phones in the center console but I tried the lobby doors anyway, and they were open! What luck! No worries about my precious cargo getting stuck to some errant ice cream bar stuffed down the box.<\/p>\n

Figuring that my payment was less likely to get lost, I went inside and the doors clicked shut behind me. What’s this? Magnetic locks! I dropped the envelopes in the slot and tried the doors…<\/p>\n

Locked!
Trapped!
No way out!
Running out of oxygen! (okay, I made that last part up)<\/p>\n

So I was shaking the doors back and forth to see if I could wiggle through the gap, looking around for some way to break the glass, maybe a tool to pry them apart. But while looking for a tool, I saw to the right a tiny (1\/2 inch square) lit green button that said EXIT. I pressed it and the locks de-energized. I let go, thinking that there might be a time delay, but the locks re-energized. So I played that game for what seemed like a month until I realized through the fog of panic that the button had to stay pressed while the doors were opened.<\/p>\n

I hopped in the Jeep—which was still running, with the driver’s door wide open—and sped away, wondering if my adventure was caught on the lobby cameras. Surely the staff at my little USPS outpost are having a good laugh reviewing the tapes.<\/p>\n

Pure evil.<\/p>\n

– bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friends, I stopped by the post office with the car insurance payments and knowing that the lobby doors are usually locked, I was going to put the envelope in the box outside. The Jeep was running, wallet and cell phones in the center console but I tried the lobby doors anyway, and they were open! … <\/p>\n

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