On Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 5:19:59 PM UTC-5, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 02/19/2017 12:54 PM, wrote:

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I have not lived in a place where there was direct house delivered
mail since the JFK administration. I either had central area mail
boxes for several homes or a road side box. Door to door delivery went
away as soon as I moved to Maryland and I am not sure there is any in
my whole county in Florida. (Not even in the city of Ft Myers or Cape
Coral).


My father had mail delivery through a slot in the door until 1992. It
was in an older section of town. The newer areas use rural-type boxes
along the street.

OT: My mother liked a TV show called "It Takes a Thief". For some
strange reason, she almost always called it "To Catch a Thief".

Not at all strange.

The premise of the TV show (starring Robert Wagner)
was that a shadowy agency of the U.S. government hired the best thief
in the world to (IIRC) do spy-type stuff. Steal microdots containing
intelligence info, for example. I was 11 years old when it came on
the air in 1968; it was a favorite of mine.

The Cary Grant movie "To Catch a Thief" (released in 1955) concerned
the world's best cat burglar. After he "retired", he was pressed
into service to locate and help apprehend another cat burglar who
was impersonating him.

Cindy Hamilton