and got a solicitation for 50,000 gallons of waste oil, to be picked up at some Naval station if I won the bid. I passed.

I guarantee that if you bid on a package from the Unabomber, you will get a bang out of it.

This is serious stuff. If you don't bid after 2 or 3 auction notices, you will be removed from the list. So get your oil shovel ready.

Hottest postal item to bid on, bundles of letters addressed to Santa Claus. Bidders assume the little tykes will have included a dollar bill in each one. But that never seems to happen.