title: Poison Pen Letters: Using Mail for Revenge
author:  Keith Wade 
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zlib_text: **Storm Front by Jim**
  
   **Butcher**
  
  For Debbie Chester, who taught me everything I really needed to know about
  writing. And for my father, who taught me everything I really needed to know
  about living. I miss you dad.
  
  **Chapter One**
  
  I heard the mailman approach my office door, half an hour earlier than usual.
  He didn't sound right. His footsteps fell more heavily, jauntily, and he
  whistled. A new guy. He whistled his way to my office door, then fell silent
  for a moment. Then he laughed.
  
  Then he knocked.
  
  I winced. My mail comes through the mail slot unless it's registered. I get a
  really limited selection of registered mail, and it's never good news. I got
  up out of my office chair and opened the door.
  
  The new mailman, who looked like a basketball with arms and legs and a
  sunburned, balding head, was chuckling at the sign on the door glass. He
  glanced at me and hooked a thumb toward the sign. "You're kidding, right?"
  
  I read the sign (people change it occasionally), and shook my