Sending bricks through the mail

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Sun Nov 3 09:36:51 PST 2002


At 09:37 PM 11/2/02 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>When I was at Intel we sent our designs for microprocessors to European

>branches and/or partners. One set of designs sent to MATRA/Harris, a
>partner in the 80C86, was stolen in transit. (The box of tapes arrived
>in Paris, but the tapes had been replaced by the suitable weight of
>bricks.)

There exists a website by someone who enjoyed sending unusual things
through the US mail.  He once sent a brick, with proper postage,
no envelope.

The brick *eventually* arrived at its destination, sort of, but had been
broken
by the DEA according to the PO's paperwork.





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