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This year, thanks to Jen and Wrench, Deadletter will have a Pirate Mail presence at Flipside.
What the heck is Pirate Mail, you might wonder? And well you might! Pirate Mail is a hand-to-hand mail misdelivery service. First (and only) rule of Pirate Mail is _don't deliver it yourself_. To misdeliver mail, one would need, of course, mail! And this is where we need your help. Please propose people you know that you think it would be funny if a complete stranger wrote them mail. The format:
Name, Nickname, Playaname
(optional: more connection info)
Community, Location, Burning Man Camp (not a street address, please!)
City
Write About:
Some examples:
deadletter b
can be found at Watershed, PDX
Deadletter
PDX
Write About: Disproportionate Response
Wrench
will be at Arctica for Flipside
can be found at Watershed, PDX
Shady Asylum, Arctica
Austin, PDX
Write About: Kittens!
We're doing a number of mail project before then, so if you nominate your friends and enemies, perhaps they will have mail floating around for them at Flipside. Please pirate mail all mail for Flipside to Jen, and she can hold onto it till we get there. Some other things to know about Pirate Mail:
1) All mail is public mail. Feel free to open mail in your possession and edit it, preferably with a red pen.
2) Don't send anything you actually want to get there. We're all about the MISdelivery
3) This is the perfect opportunity to send all the things the USPS won't let you send! Money, drugs, bombs A+
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What the heck is Pirate Mail, you might wonder? And well you might! Pirate Mail is a hand-to-hand mail misdelivery service. First (and only) rule of Pirate Mail is _don't deliver it yourself_. To misdeliver mail, one would need, of course, mail! And this is where we need your help. Please propose people you know that you think it would be funny if a complete stranger wrote them mail. The format:
Name, Nickname, Playaname
(optional: more connection info)
Community, Location, Burning Man Camp (not a street address, please!)
City
Write About:
Some examples:
deadletter b
can be found at Watershed, PDX
Deadletter
PDX
Write About: Disproportionate Response
Wrench
will be at Arctica for Flipside
can be found at Watershed, PDX
Shady Asylum, Arctica
Austin, PDX
Write About: Kittens!
We're doing a number of mail project before then, so if you nominate your friends and enemies, perhaps they will have mail floating around for them at Flipside. Please pirate mail all mail for Flipside to Jen, and she can hold onto it till we get there. Some other things to know about Pirate Mail:
1) All mail is public mail. Feel free to open mail in your possession and edit it, preferably with a red pen.
2) Don't send anything you actually want to get there. We're all about the MISdelivery
3) This is the perfect opportunity to send all the things the USPS won't let you send! Money, drugs, bombs A+
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Fri, December 21, 2007 - 12:55 PMOk, no one has spoken up about this so I am going to ask a question(s)...
Ok, let me get this straight.. I can write a really fuct up letter and address it to whom ever (at FS) address it with their burner name or whatever to thier camp and it will go through everyone elses hands first.. hopefully getting additions. subrtactions or otherwise edited by which ever "carrier" happens to have it at the time??? -
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Fri, December 21, 2007 - 2:47 PMIt sounds like it's a project for Burning Man, but you can write letters and give them to Jen during Flipside.
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 7:37 PMYes, exactly - and we will be there in person at Flipside, to
a) deliver/misdeliver all the flipside mail we have at that point (give us names so we can start building mail for flipside!)
b) get people at flipside to write OTHER people at flipside
c) collect mail for the other destinations deadletter will be at this year, including burning man
d) cause trouble!
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Fri, December 21, 2007 - 2:12 PMthis sounds really fun. I understand it to be that it just gets delivered to whomever. Just not the person it was addressed to?? As if on the way to being delivered it gets handed off to someone else? -
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Mon, January 7, 2008 - 7:27 PMAll of these things are true.
1) Deadletter will be at flipside, which means that yes, you can give us mail during the months leading up to flipside and we will give it away to someone who may, or may not, know the person it is supposed to get to.
2) We're certainly comfortable with mail getting delivered. As long as it is given to SOMEONE before it gets to it's destination.
3) you can NOMINATE people that you know will be at flipside and we will have OTHER people write them letters in the next few months, to be handed around when we get there.
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Tue, January 8, 2008 - 1:27 AMSweet! This has soooo much potential for greatness...even though a complete stranger can get your letter (nicely revised, of course), they have the opportunity to meet you at your camp.
It may be kinda hard to get mail going considering that theme camps haven't been confirmed yet. I imagine it will be closer to May when letters/items start floating in.
So, is this something that's done the day of? Or are we supposed to be mailing you the letter ahead of time to hold for Flipside? -
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Wed, January 9, 2008 - 1:13 AM1) You could accumulate mail right now for flipside, and give it to us when we get there.
2) You could pirate mail people at flipside to some person/address, such as JEN!
3) You could send your mail to your peeps EVEN NOW!
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Re: Think now about Pirate Mail at Flipside!
Wed, January 9, 2008 - 12:54 PMOMG! I just realized I'm the Jen you're talking about! Woo hooo! I'm so excited to have Pirate Mail at Flipside!
By the way, there are a few Jen's, so you may need to address to Ice Queen Jen at the Kindom of Ice (our little version of Arctica).
Let me know if I can help you guys in any way!
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