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<text id=89TT2782>
<title>
Oct. 23, 1989: American Notes:Texas
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Oct. 23, 1989 Is Government Dead?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 43
American Notes
TEXAS
Special Delivery
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<p> It seemed to be another helpful offer from your friendly U.S.
Postal Service. When after-hours depositors sought to stuff their
cash receipts into night depositories at a number of Dallas-area
banks, they found the slots jammed and an official-looking notice
that read: TEMPORARILY OUT OF ORDER. PLEASE UTILIZE THE U.S.
MAILBOX FOR YOUR NIGHT DEPOSIT. Sure enough, one of those familiar
curbside mail drops had been placed invitingly at hand to accept
the money.
</p>
<p> This mail, however, was not intended for prompt delivery to
any bank. An alert police officer in the suburb of Carrollton
spotted one such sign at a local bank, and after a search, another
was found. Officers patiently staked out one of the sites. There
they arrested Joe Ben Hunsaker III just after he had loaded one of
the mailboxes into a pickup truck and was taking down an OUT OF
ORDER sign. Alleging that he had used the innovative scam to steal
$10,000 since early August, Postal inspectors said they would
charge him with theft of the mailboxes and of the contents that
trusting citizens had sent to the wrong destination.
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