Percy's Address

Percy gets his mail at the Post Office the same place small town America has been getting their mail for the last 150 years. In most small towns people use the post office as the ad hoc town center. A place where gossip is heard, bills are paid, and Sunday dinner is planned. A simple brick building where new friends are made and old ones reacquainted with.

You might not know this but the FBI stop posting wanted posters in post offices about four years ago. This of course didn't go unnoticed by Percy Craven, who wrote a letter to the FBI reminding them that Eric Rudolph would have never been caught had it not been for the FBI wanted poster in the Post Office. Percy never got a reply.

His mailing address for his lake house is a Post Office Box in Hayesville, NC. Percy stops their at least every other day and always on Saturdays. But some folks insist on a street address, but when he tells them Percy Craven Lake Chatuge, NC 28904, they get antsy. They want a street number and street name.

He tells them he doesn't have a number and that his road doesn't have a name. But folks are stubborn so he ends up telling them some crazy address like 1776 Craven Lane, Building 17, Suite 76 Haynesville, NC 28904 and that fits into their computers logic and all is well.

Truth be told both the UPS Guy and the FedEx Lady know where Percy lives, they know when he is in town and when he's away.

If he's out fishing they just open the door and set the package on the kitchen counter, click a couple of boxes on their hand held unit and go on about their day.

If he's there they open the door put the package on the kitchen counter and chat a spell.

Russell the UPS guy gets a laugh out of some of the outlandish addresses Percy gives people.

He all time favorite is Central Intelligence Agency Counter Terrorism Unit 3rd Floor, Building 37 Attention J. Edgar Hoover.

Says Russell, "The minute I saw CIA I knew it was for Percy".