Sending bricks through the mail

[Thoenen, Peter Mr. EPS]

Tried emailing direct but bounced so apologize to the list for the OT
content :)

You don't happen to have the url do you?  Think it would make an amusing
read.

-Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Major Variola (ret) [mailto:mv at cdc.gov]
> Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 18:37
> To: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: Sending bricks through the mail
> 
> 
> 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in Paris, but the tapes had been replaced by the suitable weight of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.