Opening your mail---in style! ;-))

Before leaving for the day, I pose to you all this question: "How do you open your mail and what do you use in doing so?"

Reason I ask is because I thought i'd share my little secret w/ you all. I use an M-1 Garand Bayonet-to open my packages with. I used to use a WWII German Officers "Dovehead" Sword to do so-untill I sold both of the ones I had-to a local collector in the Corpus Christi area several years ago.

 

GEE WHIZ i bet beer opening time is fun in your house and when the wine and champagne come out as for the post i bin it when its trash, and tear the sucker open if its anything else you posh yank you

 

I use a 4" Browning Skinner Jr. folding lock-back that I keep in my hip holster for both. Nothing fancy schmanzy, just a functional lock-back.

 

I don't open my mail. I send it to Lubianka and then inevitably it confesses what is inside.

 

In Wellingtons tradition I yell it open.

 

I just tried your suggestion Carl.....Now I'm off to PC World to buy another monitor screen....It didnt work...

 

Nothing that stylish Carl!

I use my finger!

But I like that idea! I'll have to find a bayonet!

 

Very stylish Carl! I just use my scissors...

 

I use a Swedish knife, a so-called Mora knife.
Mora is a small Swedish town in the Dalarna County, and have become famous ( in Sweden at least) for its typical Swedish folklore, art and knives.

The town is located at the northern shore of Lake Siljan, which actually is a giant meteorite crater (I learned that when I studied geology). In the 1970s I lived in Falun, a city 90 kilometres further south. I was a member of an motorcycle gang and we used to visit our brethren in the Mora Redwings now and then and have a party...

Just some memories from days gone by from an old Dude.

RAM

 

I have a letter opener given to me by my son. The handle is the shape of a Golf bag with clubs in it.

 

Now why didn't I think of that.

 

Short answer I don't on most days...

A typical day
Junk, junk, junk, junk, junk, junk, junk, junk and more junk. And in to the bin they go.

On the odd day I do...scissors or a knife.

 

tchhhhhhh....You been on a course for that then????

 

I am the proud holder of a class one certificate where I can use sharp scissors.

 

Heh heh, IF you mean opening Bottles of ROOTbeer, the way it's done here is to place cap over a few lower teeth, th
en yank upwards (and hope the teeth don't fall out ;-))

 

Thanks Gents--loved your answers. I have yelled at my mail before--specially the time my ex-roomie in 1996, ran up my phonebill to$1,800 because he and his girlfriend wanted to call and listen to those stupid phone sex lines--which BTW, the one they callled-happened to be in bangladesh.

Anyway, I gave up using Scssors cause either one of my Brothers or a roommate-would borrow them and never return them.

I gave up using a finger to open them with because of all the paper-cuts I got from doing so.

When my Garand Bayo quits working, i'll use my Mauser 98 Bayo to handle that task;-)))

 

A letter opener in the shape of a samurai sword I inherited from my mother. I gave up the monogrammed 4th ATAF letter opener of my father's to one of my older brothers. Alternately, I use an antique Italian letter opener. And if I'm standing in the kitchen and can't be bothered to wander to where the opener is - my index finger usually does the job although not as neatly and with risk of the paper-cuts mentioned by Carl.

 

I was using an old Eskimo knife, steel blade carved Whale bone handle, then someone told me what it was worth. Carl, I prefer the K98 because the RAD Hewer was making a mess of things

 

Blimey, I bet the postman runs from your house.

Darling we have mail....Coming dear...

Banzai....

 

I have a little WWI trench art letter opener