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Memory Is Localized and Distributed

Memory is such a wonderful amazing ability we have that allows us to relive some of the most important moments in our individual lives and recall at will what we need to know about something/someone/someplace. While it has no prejudice for good or bad memories, we will remember it (sometimes even when we wish we could crawl in a hole and hide from the thought). It has so many facets to it and is capable of storing more memories and information than we could even conceive imaginable. Some question whether it is localized or whether it’s distributed. In this paper, I will discuss my theory as to why I believe it is conceivable that memory is both localized and distributed.

Local memory is where a single node represents a single concept. (Cognition: The Thinking Animal by Daniel Willingham pg. 256) This on the surface of that statement seems to indicate that local memory is for the focused person who only thinks of one thought at a time. However, a more in-depth analysis suggests that local memory is a secondary to distributed memory. Distributed memory is a concept that is represented across multiple nodes. (Cognition: The Thinking Animal by Daniel Willingham pg. 256) When information is received and encoded into the brain it is done so in several different areas of the brain, cross-sectioning with other information and creating its own subset web attached to a person’s already growing web of information and data; much like a computer but on a much grander scale. Now that specific piece of information could be considered localized to a certain area, even though it could be encoded into multiple areas. For example, riding a horse would be encoded at its informational level of the “how-to” aspect as well as at the experience level where an individual will remember what it was like and how it felt to actually be riding the horse. Each piece of the experience of learning to ride a horse is interconnected in the human brain web but it is split and localized to 2 separate areas, one for informational purposes and the other for the sensory feeling of what the experience was in terms of remembering that time. Henry Molaison was a good example of this. He was able to learn new motor skills but could not remember how or when or where or who taught him this information, he just knew it. Therefore, indicating that there are separate areas of the brain dealing with specific brain functions. They are all interconnected regardless of brain functioning ability, however, if brain functionality is disrupted in some way by disease or brain injury, the brain can and will rewire itself to work around the missing or damaged section, again indicating that while the memory and information processing framework is all interconnected it is also localized specifically. By allowing information and memories to encode at multiple points in the brain we ensure that while the riding a horse experience may not be remembered for what horse we rode, how our body felt afterward or what the place looked like where we were learning this new skill, we are able to remember the specific motor skills for riding a horse.

In order for the human brain to function through our everyday lives of increasing technology and infrastructure, networking, and social interactions it is crucial that we have multiple memory systems to filter through all of this information. It is crucial that we have acoustic coding for our primary memory and semantic coding for our secondary memory and sensory and iconic memory to filter what we need and don’t need to encode for storage. At each of these levels of encoding we see a specific localized process happening that is specialized to its purpose of retaining only the information that we the individual feels is needed to know or remember.

So while it would be hard to argue that the brain was just one localized area of memory encoding and retrieval, it can be completely conceivable that within the distribution of information and memories they are being distributed to specific localized areas to be encoded properly so that upon retrieval it can be done effortlessly through the minds mental web; also allowing us to be able to retrieve like information if the desired information is not actually learned and or known. Therefore, we can always keep our own personal library of congress incomplete functional working order regardless of brain capacity or injury. So the argument shouldn’t be whether or not memory and information are localized or distributed because it is a combination of the 2 that allows us to achieve full encoding and retrieval success, full memory and knowledge success.

Henry Molaison Paper

Reconciliation of Evidence of HM’s Disorder

Within The Levels of Processing Framework

In 1933 Henry Molaison suffered from a biking accident that injured him with left and right medial temporal lobe damage that caused him epileptic seizures resulting in the need for surgery to remove the damaged parts of his brain in order to stop the seizing. Neurological surgery was performed and successful in terms of stopping the seizures however Mr. Molaison was left with severe anterograde and moderate retrograde amnesia. Despite this drawback to life, Mr. Molaison was able to adapt and live a full life. During his life span, Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart came up with a theory, in 1972, that challenged the normal perception that “what mattered most was what happened in the primary memory” (page 174, Cognition The Thinking Animal, Daniel Willingham) by creating the ‘Levels of Processing Framework’. Thus possibly explaining how Mr. Molaison was able to manage, memory-wise, when it was virtually impossible for him to convert any short term memory into a long term memory.

Given that Mr. Molaison could form a thought or learn a new piece of information just like anyone else it wasn’t like he couldn’t be taught or retrieve some memories from his past or even create associations for older memories with new information. It just meant the ways in which he had to remember anything had to get creative, become different or new. Since he could hold a short term memory for about 20 seconds it was possible that if he could attach a new piece of information to an existing piece of information he had already learned that he wasn’t so much creating a whole new piece of information as just modifying an existing one; which was within the means of his condition. He was completely able to learn new motor skills, or learn information; he just wouldn’t remember how he learned it, where he was when he learned it or why. To him, every day was a brand new day, a little worse than Drew Barrymore in 50 First Dates, style of a brand new day.

According to Craik and Lockhart’s theory of depth of processing the way information got into the primary memory is through deep or shallow processing; it never mattered what certain way or how much time was put into remembering. They devised a sort of hierarchy for memory encoding and retrieval. By means of defining shallow and deep memory encoding, those are the basis for how our memories get stored. Shallow memories will get sorted through and most will never make it to a deeper encoding but some do through personal association and attachment to the memory. This is where Mr. Molaison has trouble. An everyday memory that doesn’t get separated or filtered to a motor skill area or information area of the processing framework is considered to his brain a shallow memory that just gets tossed after 20 seconds. The part of Mr. Molaison’s brain that was removed was the part that would have added that extra piece to the day’s memory so that it would have gone on through to a lasting long term memory. By defining a processing framework, it is easier to see that there are different parts of the brain that are assigned to do different processes when encoding a memory. A person just doesn’t see, touch, smell, taste, feel, experience, or hear something without instantly processing it into categories, sub-categories, and even subsets of sub-categories for where it needs to be stored for when it needs to be retrieved. Mr. Molaison could do this, but if it came down to a memory that would need an attachment to it, like seeing a beautiful flower on a sunny Sunday day walking with a beautiful woman that smelled like springtime could go no further in his thoughts than 20-second intervals till the walk was over and with nothing to attach to this memory he had no way to encode it to his mind more than in a shallow way. By this I mean, he knew what a sunny day was, period, he knew what Sunday was, period, he knew what it meant to walk, period, and so on. Each of those was simply shallow descriptions of basic information he had already attained prior to his accident so he could retrieve that knowledge and know it presently but to associate the feeling and depth of the beautiful woman with him and the significance of the day would never get encoded into his memory.

In conclusion, it is irrefutable that the Levels of Processing has a solid stance in the theory of Depth of Processing. This in relation to Mr. Molaison does help to establish how the information was getting into his brain and where it was going after it entered. Which memories or information were getting in and which were not and which were getting stored and which were not. By defining the depth of processing and the difference between shallow and deep processing it is easier to understand which ones Mr. Molasion is remembering and which he isn’t and why.

AMPI Paper

In my AMPI results report, my validity scale denoted a valid profile with somewhat lower than average scores for socially desirable responding and unlikely symptoms. Indicating that I am neither trying to seem overly virtuous nor overly reporting about my symptoms giving a slight evaluation on the guarded side suggestion I was under-reporting. My clinical scales were within normal limits for all but 2 scales: Somatization and Introversion; seeming to indicate a slightly above average focus on physical issues. This is not unusual for people with disabilities or illness, but might also be a suggestion of a somatization of stress. I also have a higher tendency to avoid social situations, especially large groups. My Somatization and Introversion code type is 1/0. This may indicate that I have a low life satisfaction level, but want others to see me as well adjusted and likable. I may be somewhat submissive and non-argumentative. Also, I could be described as shy and reclusive, withdrawn and socially isolated, experiencing numerous somatic symptoms while under stress. Not boring easily but losing interest in tasks quickly; displaying compulsive behavior while wanting to maintain order. Others may describe me as odd or eccentric.

Personally, I think this assessment is fairly accurate. I do tend to somatize my stress and put an over-emphasis on physical attributes to myself and life. I do also consider, at this moment, myself to have low life satisfaction, which is why I am trying to finish my degree and get a better job. Though I do have a blog up, calmcoolair.blogspot.com/, that I put mostly happy Marie on so that my family and friends can see me as being fulfilled, happy, and successful. However, due to how my mother raised me I will not allow myself to be submissive and let others make my decisions for me. I often dream of being able to do just that but when it comes down to it, I cant. I am not argumentative despite the fact that my current love interest greatly begs to differ on that, and I would consider myself reclusive at times because I do truly love peace and quiet, though over the years I have realized that I have a knack for making people laugh so I have created a persona for myself that I use in public situations. I do bore easily but if I can get involved in something I’m passionate about then I am fully attentive. If I could be compulsive in my environment then I would be but working for the post office and having a 17-month-old baby makes compulsive a little hard. So I have trained myself to ignore the chaos and go with it. On many occasions I have, as well as many others, considered myself completely eccentric as my whole persona is created on over the top impulsive behavior. At home, my eccentric side just shows thru with my humor and little quirks that make up my personality. So yes I can see myself fitting this description.

Considering that the test described me fairly accurately, I do not find much wrong with how the test is set up except that I don’t think the scale should be 1-10. While I don’t remember an exact question to use as an example I do remember thinking to myself a couple times, ‘how can I scale a question like that’. Meaning maybe the scale shouldn’t be 1-10 on every question but more of a scale to fit the question method.

In conclusion, I think the clinical scale description of me is an 8 overall.

NickelBack Concert 2012

My (Mock) Magazine Covers

NickelBack Concert 2010

An Opinion I Have Created

For quite some time now my cousin and I have had an on-again-off-again relationship. It is off again now. From my point of view, it is off for good. I'm sure this time I burned the bridge completely too I assume she'll say the same thing.

For years we hung out every summer as I would go stay at her house for a couple months. Which truthfully was a great charity. Then my Uncle did something stupid (another story for a different blog) and she moved away to Atlanta. We basically stopped talking then. She grew up and if it wasn't for a spontaneous trip to Atlanta with an ex-boyfriend I wouldn't have seen them for almost a decade. As they hardly came to visit Pa anymore. They seemed to feel their life is not here anymore. So when I got onto myspace, I found them and I myspaced them and they hardly ever talked to me. I mean really hardly ever said anything to me. Now what the fuck kind of relationship is that?

So I wrote them both letters and said it was bullshit and said "I'm here. You know where to find me if you ever want to have a relationship." Years passed and I heard nothing. I still haven't heard anything from him, but she Facebooked me after I made my mom a page and they became friends. She said, "let's try this again". I said ok whatever. We talked ok for awhile in that same textbook answer way we have for as long as I can remember. Meaning, I write something and she answers what I ask or comments back to what I say in her very perfect etiquette way with what is her level of sincerity now. Which is below what it used to be when we were growing up. Hell maybe it was always like that towards me I just only noticed it more after she went away. To me this sucks. I mean, great at least we were talking, this time but I stepped it up a notch. I started trying to talk, talk to her. Meaning giving my opinion.

She apparently likes to party as that is plastered all over her page, so not understanding her actual position for her job I asked. When she answered that she was a sales rep for a vodka company and in charge of all these things I said in response that that was good cause it sounded like she was on her way to rehab. She didn't like that and didn't say anything back. Then when I got pregnant and she didn't congratulate my post I emailed her that and she didn't say anything. Then someone who she knew who knew me friended me and I didn't really remember him so I emailed her again asking her to give me some memory as to who this person was and whether I should accept his request or ignore him. She didn't say anything back again, I ended up pissing him off (even though he had no reason to get mad, honestly, also another story for another blog). When a couple weeks went by and I saw her post an anti-sonogram status message I emailed her again and said I was sad she had not returned any of my previous emails and also disheartened by her anti sonogram post. Though she clarified in the post and to me again that it was not anti-sonogram so much as anti-posting sonograms on your Facebook account that was her pet peeve. Which means she chose, in my eyes, a bad quote to quote to express her point of view. Jimmy Fallon calling sonogram pictures drawings of aliens is not the post you post to say you don't think posting sonogram pictures to Facebook is appropriate.

This aggravated me. So I decided to let her know what one of my pet peeves was and that is about people not having care about what they post on Facebook. Which is basically the same pet peeve that she had except I defended posting sonogram pictures cause they are symbolic and posting your who-ha and ta-tas all over your page, that you use for networking as well as family and friends, is inappropriate to me.

Tara Amedure 21 March at 17:31 Report

Marie -

I'm sorry for not responding to your message although I was incredibly excited to hear the news (of which I told my dad). I have not actually logged onto Facebook in about a month - only status updates on my phone. I have been traveling all month for work. Please don't take it personal, you are way off base.

In the case of Steve Riley, I haven't talked to anyone in Pennsylvania in eleven years - sorry I couldn't be of help.

Lastly, I'm sorry for your loss. I hear it is very common for the first pregnancy especially before the 8-12wk mark. I had you in my thoughts and prayers.

As far as my post - I GET an ULTRASOUND and its a BEAUTIFUL thing for your close, close friends and family. I'm sorry if I think it is something more personal than just another pic to post up on the WORLD WIDE WEB. Just my opinion which I am entitled to and explained. If you would have read all of it you would have seen that I do not have a pet peeve for ultrasounds - just the posting of them on Facebook.

I hope you are doing okay with everything.
XO
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Tea,

I know you have been traveling a lot for your job, I do see all your updates, and you do seem to be all over Cali.

In the Steve thing, it wasn't about whether you talked to him any time of recent, I was asking for you to help me out with memories. Like was I missing a memory that I shouldn't have been, therefore a reason why he would have friended me. I know you don't talk with anyone from pa anymore really, which makes me, personally, wonder why you aren't more choosy with who you add as your friend on Facebook. I know you are an extremely friendly person but everyone you have known or met in your life doesn't have to be your Facebook friend...

Which leads up to the ultrasound pic thing...

I know personally, I would post my ultrasound pic (when I get one) on here because I only have those in my family, close co-workers and friends on here. I wouldn't be posting it for the whole worldwide web. I can't obviously speak for your friends, but that may have been their thought too. Since you are friends with so many people that may just be why you are seeing those posts. Though Facebook has added the option that you can hide posts from anyone you don't want to see posts for. Just a thought. If you need to know how to do that on here just ask.

Thank you for the thoughts and prayers for me, though I am ok. I am aware that it is common. Though this is my second miscarriage, I still know it is a common thing. I will be talking with my doctor in April to make sure all is ok with me internally. We will probably try again this summer. But we'll see, we're in no rush.

Lastly~ You state in a matter of speaking, at least I think, that people should be careful or more choosy with what they post on the world wide web. I think you may want to heed your own advice a little more. It seems to me you want two things out of your Facebook page. It seems you want to be on here to network and to keep in touch with those you cant see all the time that are close to you. To avoid pet peeves in the future I think maybe you should streamline your Facebook page to a personal page and make a different page that you can network on. I say this also because the pictures you post of yourself, most are not bad but some are not appropriate for being on your page or someone else's that links you to them all the time. I mean any pic taken of you is up here whether tasteful or not. Which if it was just a close-knit circle you were showing them to that would be fine. But every time you go out with Darryl, for instance, and you get crazy, everyone your friends with along with everyone he is friends with gets a notice that they can look a the pictures. Because when he uploads them he probably doesn't filter who can see them. Meaning I and all you two are friends with have access to his picture database. Just an f.y.i cause I truly don't think you know this. I may not see or talk with you often at all but I think I know that you would have more care with your page if you knew that everyone can see what your up to whether you tell it or one of your close friends is. This is why you may want to make a separate page for your work colleagues and people you meet while your out and about, that doesn't include any personal pics of yourself (this too will head off any wackos). I only say this cause I care and am slightly concerned. You can even call it one of my pet peeves that people don't take more caution what they air on the world wide web that I would think is more personal than a sonogram picture, that most people again cannot make out anyways. People can make out a 25 yr old giving money to a male dancer, giving a lap dance to a guy that may or may not be her boyfriend and a girl who is pictured to look like she parties a lot. Again just a thought, take it for what you want or ignore my comments it makes no matter to me, I love you but your life is definitely your own. When I say all this don't think I'm being judgmental when I do, cause I'm not judging your lifestyle at all just what you personally post and allow to be posted about yourself.

XO
Marie
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Not going to lie - weird messages lately as if I have personally offended you. I was very happy to reconnect with you but you seem to be terribly offended/concerned, etc with my life.

All of the people I am friends with on FB I actually have real experiences with or shared, fond childhood memories. I also add a lot because I live in a city with 4 million people, not to mention lived in another large city for quite some time as well. With that said, I also do not add a lot of people.

I know it is hard to believe because we really don't know each other as adults but I am fine with my Facebook page and open to questions. For starters - I'm only 26 and building my life in one of the largest cities in our country. Not only do I manage all sales/marketing operations for an offshore company, but I also take care of my amazing dog, and work with charitable organizations almost on a weekly basis. I'm not pointing this out to say "hey look at me" I'm pointing it out to show that I function on a very strict schedule. I start my mornings around 6 and finish after midnight. I run triathlons and am preparing to finish my law degree (I don't think a person would a true problem could maintain).

Please recognize that your last email came off very judgmental. I am VERY close with my friends and family. Those who know me know the men on my page are GAY - that was not a male stripper, it was a GAY go-go dance at The Abbey (famous restaurant/bar).

Yes, I am out A LOT. I dance A LOT. I have FUN A LOT. I do not do drugs (still have never gotten involved with narcotics) and my drinking is limited. I have to go out and make sure my product is placed/moving/selling in my accounts and I do that best during business hours.

You were judging my lifestyle (please re-read your message) based on perception and or your own opinions. As family & friend, I would expect questions of "concern" that I would be happy to answer. And to be honest, I'm okay with saying yes - I am always on the run and I am out more than I am in...BECAUSE I CAN and there will be in time in my life where I will have priorities outside of myself.

I hope you can see how you have come off. I haven't judged you even for a second about anything. If it seems like I'm firing back a bit..yes. You come into my life only to criticize me when it is completely unwarranted and unfair.
I hope this doesn't "end" our effort to stay in contact. However, I cannot apologize for living my life as a fun-loving, young, city-centered woman.

I do want to end with this: I love you - you're family and my message is not to start a circle of tit for tat. I honestly was just taken back.

Tara Amedure 22 March at 22:03 Report

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And I didn't want you to apologize for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was exactly the response I was hoping you WOULDNT make.
because NO I was not judging your life, it's your life, live it, however. please fucking live it, however. MY POINT WAS.... please don't make comments that other people should have more care about what they post on Facebook when the same argument could be made to you!

As it was your pet peeve about the sonograms
It is mine, and maybe someone else's, that you post a lot of things that we wouldn't consider "postable" material.
Not because you shouldn't live the life you live but because your life can be misconstrued by someone not involved in it daily.
So I appreciate the recap on your life but I was not making reference to all the great things you do in your life but, YOU MADE MY POINT.
I don't know everything and everyone in your life so to me and anyone else not completely up-to-date on all the things you have posted can be mistaken to mean something they don't. GET MY POINT.
I WASNT JUDGING YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST CONCERNED.

I don't understand why you misunderstand what I write so often. I do reread what I send you and I don't speak a foreign language and just as an extra precaution I read what I write to my mom or dave so that I make sure I'm making the correct point and three times now you have misunderstood things I have written, so I have again reread them to make sure I wasn't mistaken. Only to see that no I was clear about what I was saying.

I am so pissed right now.

Marie Beaven 22 March at 23:03

Honestly, Tara, I don't know why it was so important for you to keep in contact with me. we have grown very far apart. it's great to know that we are each alive and well but we could truly find that out from our parents. I really don't need to get worked up about someone who gets defensive about something that I say that I clearly stated you could "take it for what you want or ignore my comments, it makes no matter to me".
I do care about you, that's why I voice my opinion but since you clearly never understand what I'm saying. I will refrain. If it is that big of a deal to you I will not delete you from my page but ill "hide" your posts so I don't see what your up to so I don't feel the need to comment about anything.
Furthermore... if anyone who knew me through you from the past contacts me ill just ignore them from the get-go so that I don't have to send you "weird" messages in the future and if anything big happens in my life ill let you hear it from your dad.
That may seem, TO YOU, harsh or unmerited but I need to do certain things in my life to be able to avoid crap like this that I know I get involved in because of who I am.
With that said, I'm done talking about this. if you email me back with misunderstandings again I will simply not reply back.

I love you too, you are my family, but blood means nothing to me in the sense of having a relationship. I will love you forever regardless, and also do not want tit for tat either, but I do not have to have a relationship with you because you are blood.

Marie Beaven 22 March at 23:06

She accused me of judging her, though I clearly stated I was not doing that, just stating that if she was going to address what people post that I would as well. She obviously did not like this at all. Though she wanted to make sure I knew she loved me but that she was taken back by what I had inferred. I said I was tired of her assuming I was saying something I was clearly not. That it was bad enough she did it before but that she was continuing even when I had stated exactly what I meant and was addressing. So even though I love her very much (that was why I cared whether she posted her who-ha and ta-ta's all over the place) and will love her forever cause she was my blood cousin, that didn't mean that we had to have a relationship and that I didn't know why it was so important to her that we did. Furthermore, I would hide all her posts so that I wouldn't feel the need to comment on anything she posted from then on cause I didn't want her misunderstanding me anymore.

Was I harsh? Yes, I know I was. I was a bitch, plain and simple. I do actually feel bad for being that mean about it, but she pissed me off beyond belief. Though that is truly no excuse, however, I will not feel bad for the end result.

We as human beings have the right to allow certain people and not allow certain others into our lives. We for no reason have to be friends with everyone. It's absolutely ridiculous. I mean she has 620 friends on her Facebook page. Now that is fucking stupifying. Who the fuck (obviously besides her) would have 620 friends. You can't possibly keep up with all of them. you can't have any real relationship with them. That is like a fan page without saying it's your fan page. This is our major difference. I want to only have people in my life that I can have personal relationships with and can be involved with on a regular basis. She wants to have fans, apparently. I cant deal with that. I cant deal with being a number to someone. I cant deal with people quoting the wrong quotes, dissing something that's symbolic and saying that the whole wide web doesn't need to see something as personal as a sonogram but she can show all 620 of those "friends" her every party move. I don't understand where that is ok but a sonogram isn't. I would make a safe wager, not that many people. I don't think most people on here are friends with hundred(S) of people.

I truly don't know what else to say. That is my rant, the bug up my ass in terms of my cousin.Tara Amedure 22 March at 21:38 Report Marie Beaven 21 March at 20:59

A List I Wrote to The American Public About Shipping Their Stuff

TOP TEN (THERES MORE BUT THESE RANK AS THE TOPS)

1. SCOTCH TAPE IS NOT PACKING TAPE

2. CEREAL BOXES ARE NOT PACKING BOXES ( NOT EVEN IF YOU WRITE PLEASE DONT CRUSH ON IT)

3. TUPPERWARE CONTAINERS ARE NOT STURDY ENOUGH TO GO THROUGH OUR MACHINERY SO THOSE COOKIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS ARNT SAFE IN GLADWARE

4. IF IT HAS A POINT TO IT AND COULD SPEAR THROUGH FLESH IT WILL SPEAR THROUGH PACKING TAPE AND THEN MY FLESH. PLEASE APPLY A CORK TO THE TIP OR MANY LAYERS OF PADDING PLEASE

5. IF IT WEIGHS MORE THAN, SAY, A HUMAN BEING ( I.E. 50 GRAPEFRUITS FROM FLORDIA) DO NOT PACK IN A COPY PAPER BOX WITH SCOTCH TAPE. THIS REQUIRES A LARGE TUPPERWARE CONTAINER WITH BUBBLE WRAP INSIDE AND HEAVY WRITTEN ON IT. OTHERWISE, GRAPEFRUIT JUICE WILL ARRIVE AT THEIR DOOR

6. IF YOU ARE MAILING OUT A LOT OF PAPERS THAT END UP AMOUNTING TO THE SIZE OF A BOOK PLEASE USE A BOX NOT AN ENVELOPE. JUST LIKE FAT PEOPLE TRYING TO FIT IN SKINNY JEANS>> SEAMS DO BUST. AS A MATTER OF FACT, DONT SEND ANYTHING FAT IN SOMETHING SKINNY PLEASE!!!!!!

7. PIZZA BOXES ARE NOT PACKING BOXES. ESPECIALLY OILY USED PIZZA BOXES (COME ON NOW, REALLY)

8. IF YOU OR YOUR FAMILY CAN'T READ YOUR HANDWRITING NEITHER WILL OUR COMPUTERS. WRITE LEGIBLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9. IF YOUR SHIPPING OUT A DARK COLORED BOX DONT WRITE THE ADDRESS IN DARK INK WRITE IT IN WHITE, DONT HAVE WHITE INK YOU SAY, TRY WRITING IT ON A PIECE OF CLEAN WHITE NOTEBOOK PAPER AND TAPING WITH PACKING TAPE TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.

10. IF YOU THINK IT COULD BREAK, WRITING FRAGILE ON IT DOESNT PREVENT BREAKING, PROPER PACKING DOES WITH SUCH INVENTIONS AS BUBBLE WRAP AND/OR LOTS OF CRUMPLED NEWSPAPERS, ETC.

IT MAY BE OUR JOB TO GET YOUR PACKAGE TO ITS DESTINATION ON TIME AND IN THE CONDITION IT WAS GIVEN TO US IN BUT COME ON PEOPLE WERE NOT GENIES IN BOTTLES WIGGLING OUR NOSES TO GET YOUR PACKAGES THERE. WE ARE PEOPLE WORKING ON MILLION DOLLAR PIECES OF MACHINERY THAT ARE SORTING MAIL BY THE THOUSANDS PER MINUTE. TRY TO USE COMMON SENSE ABOUT PACKING TO AVOID DELAYS DUE TO REWRAPPING OR BREAKAGES DUE TO IMPROPER PACKING. WE'RE ALSO NOT YOUR PERSONAL SECRETARIES SO... SINCE IT IS ILLEGAL TO SEND BOXES ANY WAY BUT AT THE WINDOW NOW, PLEASE ASK FOR TAPE IF YOU NEED IT OR FOR HELP PACKING YOUR STUFF IN THE APPROPRIATE BOX/ENVELOPE/ CONTAINER WE WILL BE GLAD TO ASSIST YOU. IF YOU DO NOT ASK WE DONT KNOW YOU NEED HELP AND IF YOU JUST THINK IT'S STUPID TO ASK THEN WE THINK... WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK WE THINK...

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO READS THIS AND PASSES IT ON TO THOSE WHO MIGHT NEED A LESSON IN PROPER PACKING OR A LAUGH.