Who Did What Where?

While reviewing claims history for an account I was working on, I came across this description of a Workers Compensation claim:

"Employee was doing unknown activity that resulted in unknown injury of unknown area."

Try explaining that to a new carrier.

Grammar Police on Patrol - Vocabulary Division

In my business, I often search the internet looking for details on properties I am working on - such as year built, type of construction, number of stories, roof shape, etc. During these searches I often find myself on realtor websites who are selling units in these properties.

This one particular realtor repeatedly comes up with the closing paragraph "For discrete and professional service call me to ......" . Ouch ouch ouch.

Now, I know DISCRETE is a real word, but I don't for one second believe this realtor intended to use it instead of DISCREET.

I don't even want to wonder why someone shopping for a property needs a "discreet" realtor.

Postal Pause

This envelope was returned to my office as undeliverable - TWO MONTHS after it was sent.

This was mailed to a town 22 miles away from my office. Not across the USA, not to another country, but to a town less than an hour's drive away.

Pony Express took only 10 days to deliver mail from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast. It makes you wonder where this envelope was loitering.

On the bright side, while doing some brief research on the Pony Express, I came across all these postmarks.

So cool!  This makes me want to be creative and make greeting cards!