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About the only thing I collect is Asimov and there was a certain period in his career when he was doing a fair amount of short story publishing in the gentlemen's magazine.
Ebay was a godsend for someone interest in a very select bunch of specific issues without having to go to some fairly grungy places (seriously, I'm buying just for one of the articles). Unfortunately where we lived at the time was a place where packages absolutely could not be delivered so I had everything shipped to me at work.
I was an administrative assistant at the time, one of two in the office, so half the time I did the mail. Plus I instructed that the envelopes be marked personal so that they wouldn't be opened (we opened everybody's mail and put it in their boxes).
You can guess what happened. Fortunately my fellow admin took it reasonably well though I'm not sure she really bought why I was having a Penthouse from the 1970s mailed to me at work.
The next day I went and got acquainted with our local Mailboxes Etc. and have been leery of having things shipped to work since.
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