got home late from traveling, needed to get dinner going, so I had told my son to go fire up the grill.
went inside, got dinner prepped, had the other son go get the mail outside.
I get the mail, see the "yellow delivery card" from USPS, and it reads:
"Left package in grill" on the back.
OHHH NOOOO AGHHHHHHHHH SHHH!!!!!! TTTTTTT !
Run outside, flip open the lid, to see a hot and charred/melting packing box.
I scoop it off the grill, it falls into pieces of melted styrofoam and the contents fell out.
It was my son's graduation gift from a relative that forgot to mail it 2 weeks ago...lol
it looked worse than this...
[img width=640 height=480]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wtXbUwEYcYc/T3NyFvgxceI/AAAAAAAAEnE/_Z3ThcLalqQ/s1600/Kindle+keyboard+melted.JPG[/img]
it was a kindle e-reader with all the latest bells and whistles. ( he leaves for college this week)
needless to say, I have to call USPS tomorrow, and sort this out. there is a listed safe place to leave packages, and the grill was not it!
it may have been the substitute driver we get once or twice a month too, which would explain it.
FWIW, I learned a new lesson... always open your grill before lighting it !
[quote author=01YZF6 link=topic=1739.msg14510#msg14510 date=1341447009]
FWIW, I learned a new lesson... always open your grill before lighting it !
This is the first step of any grill lighting directions I've seen, they claim you can die if you don't lift the lid 😉 Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"
Mom taught me that also, she got the grill hot before dad got home.
[quote author=wilssm link=topic=1739.msg14534#msg14534 date=1341531086]
Glad USPS is going to replace it, I guess DS now has a kindle fire ;D Jusk Kidding, I'm glad everything worked out and nothing else was damaged
Wilssm
the CLAIMS person for USPS kept asking us if ti was a Kndle Fire... to which I responded " it is now" lol
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