Yesterday I got a strange piece of mail. It was a thin security enevelope with nothing printed on either side. Through a window on the front was simply my address printed on a piece of paper. The stamp was one of those “Presorted First Class” stamps that aren’t really stamps. There was no return address.
Inside was one 8.5″ by 11″ paper folded in half. My address and postal barcode was the only thing printed on it. The opposite side was blank.
I looked carefully for a watermark on the paper or something else inside. There was nothing. I even tried looking at it with a UV light for fun. Nothing.
Now I’m left to speculate:
- I’m being recruited by the NSA for a top-secret assignment to save the world from a evil meglomaniac threatening to hold the UN hostage with a giant laser in space. The fate of the free world rests on my ability to find the secret message encoded in the letter and report to their underground headquarters.
- An Al-Qaeda sleeper cell has been awakened and has targeted me for their next round of terror attacks. The seemingly-blank letter has been laced with a powerful time-activated nerve agent. I will be dead within the week.
- Somewhere in Missouri an IT Director is being fired for building a system that wasted thousands of dollars of company funds sending out blank letters.
I’m OK with any option except 2. I’m going on vacation next week and I’d like to hold off on any dying until afterwards.
hold it up to a flame? blacklight?
I would vote for one of the above
1) have one of your worker bees in Y! Tech open it for you
2) leave it around the break area with a note for someone else to open it
3) give it to your worst enemy to open
Perhaps it’s a geopuzzle!
You obviously need one of those magic markers that bring out invisible ink. Is there a blog about our flight and my…ah…run-in…er…conversation…with the pilot’s wife? I told Peter that story when he was out here last weekend.