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'Owl' This Special Delivery Needed Was a Stamp
It has felt like winter for the past several days, and the wildlife around West Bloomfield apparently agree.

An owl sought refuge from the cold in a West Bloomfield mailbox. (Photo via WXYZ-TV journalist Jeff Vaughn’s public Facebook page)
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Here’s one of those “it’s so cold that …” riddles that has nothing to do with dogs, or fire hydrants, or sophomoric terms for body parts and orifices and/or the fluids secreted from them.
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Thank a West Bloomfield couple identified only as Walter and Carol for that welcome detour from the old cliches about cold weather, a nun’s hiney, and, nuts and bolts and iron bridges.
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This joke is (hint-hint) wiser than all that.
It’s so cold in Michigan that Walter and Carol found an owl in their mailbox, WXYZ-TV reports.
Now that you know who was in the mailbox, do you know why?
Walter and Carol suppose the owl was trying to mail itself to Florida.
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