Monthly Archives: April 2007

Upcoming Judging Schedule

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I realized I never stated on here that I judged at Grand Prix Massachusetts, which was a lot of fun, and quite challenging, as the format was new to many players and many of the judges.

Coming up this weekend I have the Dreamblade Hartford 10K, which will be very nice as there have been no big Dreamblade events in the area. People with even a remote interest in a miniatures strategy game should learn the game, put together a warband, and come. There are cash prizes being given out to top 32, and booster pack prizes given to top 64, and I doubt we’ll break 100 players. I’ll be judging and Jessi will be playing. On Sunday, there will be a slightly smaller 1k event, which is Sealed Box, so you don’t even need to put together a warband ahead of time.

Also on Friday night, I have the Future Sight release event at Rising Phoenix Games.

Another big event coming up is that I’ve been selected to be the Head Judge of the Magic Southern New England Regional Championships. This event could quite possibly break 200 players, and it will certainly be the largest event I’ve head judged, but my tournament organizer thinks I’m up to the challenge and so do I. Plus, we’ll have a good staff (there’s plenty more to running an event of that size than just the head judge), so I think it’ll be a great experience for all involved.

And then in July, I’ve been accepted to be a judge at the Magic U.S. National Championship, which should also be a great time. I’ll probably bring Jessi along to play that weekend in the variety of side events (as well as spectate such wonders as the Game of the Year).

Continuing attempts to establish a blacklist

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On March 28, I wrote a letter (like, an actual physical one) to my postmaster (again, the actual physical one, responsible for delivery of physical mail to Charlton, MA) asking them to not deliver me mail from the six addresses that had sent me the junk mail that was in the stack next to me at the moment.

Since that time, I have continued to receive mail from those address.

So, I’m trying again, this time sending a letter with 18 addresses (I’m keeping an Excel sheet of who’s sending me junk mail now) that I want to suppress mail from, and asking explicitly this time for a reply confirming that my request will be honored.

Based on my reading of section 1.1 of section 508 of the Domestic Mail Manual, this is well within my rights as a mail recipient. In fact, for one of the monthly pieces of mail (“Your Hometown Shopper”), I emailed them and asked to be removed from their mailing list, and they said they couldn’t since the Post Office just delivers it to every address in town, and so that I need to get the Postmaster involved in order to stop delivery of it.

In the meantime, I’m just continuing to mark my junk mail Refused and putting it back in the mailbox. At least they take it back like they’re supposed to. You’d think they’d get tired of delivering mail to me just to need to take it back, so I’d expect that with an explicit order from me they’d be happy to just throw it out immediately rather than expending resources to deliver it to me and take it back and then throw it out.

If this second attempt at writing a letter to establish a blacklist doesn’t work, I’m not sure what my next steps are. I might actually try calling them, but I’m working during business hours, so I’m not sure how well I could get that to work. Besides, being the Post Office and all, wouldn’t you think they’d respond well to an old-fashioned letter? I may also try the Form 1500 approach (claiming that I consider the mail pornographic and ordering the sender to stop mailing it), but that merely makes sending me the mail illegal, it doesn’t actually stop it, and I just want the mail to stop.