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Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten
Wait, wait a minute/wait a minute, wait a minute/please, Mr. Po-ost-man/deliver de lettah/the sooner de bettah," I crooned softly yet insistently in the timeless song stylings of the Marvelettes. Finally, my computer responded, and several sets of clumsy, grainy photographs whooshed their way from Southern California to Manhattan. They were all I needed to complete our present mission. Several pictures showed otherwise identical cardboard boxes, except that some seemed nearly pristine; others ranged from slightly to hideously battered; and some were wet and leaking a turbid yellow fluid. Several pictures showed the boxes, open and ...