Welcome!

Greetings! And thank you for taking the time to stop by the new Monthly Freedom-Observer web page. If it is at all possible, please take a minute or two, visit the "Contact Us" page and pass along any comments or suggestions. Or even just say "Hi." Your feedback is all I have to help improve the site. No comments... I have to assume the site is perfect. Thank you.

Only in the Post Office... could a shrub with the name arborvitae, Latin for "tree of life", be dead.

To those of you new to the MF-O, welcome. A brief explanation / apology: At its founding in the mid 1990's, the MF-O was a parody of an occupational newsletter dedicated to the insane practices of postal business management in general and more specifically to the effects those practices had upon the working lives of the letter carrier craft employees of the Bay Village, Ohio postal business. In its heyday at the turn of the millenium, the MF-O was recognized by those letter carriers as the most trusted publication to balance the previously unchecked propaganda spewing from the cozy offices of those bumbling bureaucrats known as postal management. By the time the MF-O ceased publication in 2004, we had long been heralded as the most innovative leader in fabrications, half-truths and innuendoes of any monthly newspaper dedicated solely to the working lives of postal business employees in the entire western half of Cuyahoga County.

To those of you already familiar with the MF-O, welcome back. We are at least as excited to be back as you are to have us back. The plans for and content of this site may evolve over time, but the current composition is somewhat different from "the good ol' MF-O" that you knew and loathed. Back in the day, the stories were about you and the guy pacing himself next to you. Some of those stories may reappear here in the future, perhaps with some of the typos corrected. However, in its early stage you will notice a big difference on this site. The bulk of this new page is about me and my time under the satchel, perhaps as it always should have been. The stories span the breadth of my career beginning on Saturday, April 21, 1979 in what was then a very rural Strongsville and finishing on my 62nd birthday Saturday, August 5th, 2017 in Bay Village. (That being my last day of work. My "official" retirement date was Friday, September 1, 2017.) I hope you find these stories entertaining.

In time, I hope to add some of the old stories and welcome any suggestions for improvement of the site, obviously the later not likely possible.

Thank you.
Jimmy "Hurricane" Havran

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