Boogie 'til You Bounce : Lt. McMurry's Bosnia Diary

Boogie 'til You Bounce
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Dead Letter Office
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Some people may think my complaints about the mail are exagerrated whining. I assure you, they were not. The anecdotal evidence:

The daughter of a friend wrote me four times, and I didn't get a single letter. My father wrote me every week and I only got one or two of his letters. My mother had letters from two of my friends waiting for me when I arrived back in Green Bay. The letters had made it all the way to Bosnia, then been returned as "undeliverable". The day I returned to work, on April 15, a lady there handed me a letter she had sent me. It too had been returned as "undeliverable". The statistical evidence:

Mail that actually did reach me (Not including packages, which took longer)
Date Sent	Date Recv	Elapsed Time
Jan 18	Feb 14	27
Jan 22	Feb 14	23
Jan 23	Feb 14	22
Jan 24	Mar 3	39
Jan 24	Mar 3	39
Jan 27	Feb 14	18
Jan 27	Feb 14	18
Jan 29	Feb 14	16
Jan 29	Feb 14	16
Jan 31	Mar 7	36
Feb 5	Feb 12	7 !!!	This proves what could have been done had the military postal system been properly motivated.
Feb 5	Feb 18	13
Feb 6	Mar 16	39
Feb 8	Mar 16	37
Feb 12	Mar 6	23
Feb 12	Mar 7	24
Feb 14	Mar 10	25
Feb 15	Mar 6	20
Feb 20	Mar 3	12
Mar 1	Mar 10	9
Mar 4	Mar 16	12
Mar 4	Mar 17	13
Mar 6	Mar 17	11

Mail that should have reached me while I was still there
Date Sent	Date Recv	Elapsed Time
Feb 1	Mar 27	55	Returned to parents, waiting when I returned.
Feb 12	Apr 13	61
Feb 24	Mar 27	55	Returned to parents, waiting when I returned.
Mar 12	Apr 20	38
Feb ??	Oct 31	245	The checks my mom sent me while I was in Ðurðevik

Average:		34.9 days

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Mail that should have reached me while I was still there