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Plugger mail temporarily stops
Interesting tidbit out of the Richmond Times-Dispatch regarding the comic panel Pluggers. Back in September, the U.S. Postal Service announced that the post office where Plugger mail is sent might be permanently closed, Gary Brookins used a full Pluggers panel to announce that all future reader submissions should be sent by email. That cartoon finally appeared on Wednesday. Since it was originally drawn, Gary has learned that the post office will remain open and so he has drawn another announcement, but again, due to deadline and printing schedules it won’t appear until next month.
Apparently, you’re a Plugger if you still use the postal service.


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October/16/2009
@ 1:49 pm
Do pluggers understand how to use a computer?
“Pluggers always install TWO cup-holders on their home PC.”
-Josh
October/17/2009
@ 5:04 am
So much a-plug about nothing.
October/19/2009
@ 11:36 am
If only Pluggers use the Postal Service, then we’re all Pluggers, because all of us – hopefully – receive birthday cards, credit cards, packages, etc., through the mail. — A Proud Plugger
October/19/2009
@ 2:11 pm
Pluggers still use aol.com email handles.
October/20/2009
@ 9:01 am
So when the post office closes a branch, they just cut off PO Box service with no warning and no transition period? No forwarding? It strikes me as a premature move on Brookins’ part.
Indeed, when I read the cartoon announcing the change, I figured it was really an attempt to promote e-mail submissions and discourage snail mail. And perhaps even a modest effort to bring Pluggers a bit more up to date, by winnowing out suggestions from readers who don’t do computer stuff.
November/6/2009
@ 9:59 pm
How does an old plugger submit a cartoon suggestion
THANK YOU, Bob
January/5/2010
@ 7:28 pm
a male plugger never sits to pee, unless there’s extra reading to
do.
January/20/2010
@ 2:44 pm
you know your a plugger when you own your own home blood pressure monitor.
January/27/2010
@ 2:14 am
You’re a plugger if you remember playing hopscotch and jumping rope outside for exercise during the day and hide & seek and kick the can at night instead of wii infront of the tv.
February/15/2010
@ 9:00 am
You are a plugger if you spray soap on your car and sit it in the rain to wash.
February/23/2010
@ 10:01 pm
Pluggers don’t worry about recalls cuz their vehicle is older than most of the manufacturers who are recalling.
February/23/2010
@ 10:04 pm
You are a plugger if you carry your own clubs around the clubhouse to the 1st tee–
that’s your idea of service!!
You are a plugger if you search for a phone booth to call your relatives to tell them your late for a family gathering!!
Plugger is the 1st thing I look for in the newspaper..
Thanks
Mike Riley
Ramona
June/16/2010
@ 12:50 pm
After my colonoscopy they gave me colored pictures. Tthey are musch better than the ones in my year book. dkf
July/31/2010
@ 7:54 am
It started raining and my wife ran outside to move her car from under the carport into the rain so it would get washed. This is how Pluggers wash there cars.
September/2/2010
@ 8:09 am
SOME GOLF PLUGGERS PLAY IN SAND TRAPS AS MUCH AS THEY PLAY IN THE FAIR WAYS.
September/2/2010
@ 8:25 am
THANK YOU FOR USING MY NAME RANDOLPH BEALE YEARS AGO .PLUGGS DINNERS ARE SOME TIMES THE SAME AS THERE BREAKFAST.
September/9/2010
@ 8:47 pm
Pluggers still use thier old waterbed frame to hold thier new mattress.
September/9/2010
@ 10:12 pm
Pluggers continue to submit ideas in long-dead threads which were never intended to receive said submissions in the first place.
September/10/2010
@ 5:45 am
Pluggers don’t seem to be able to type well, use SpellCheck, or know the difference between their, there, or they’re.
September/12/2010
@ 2:19 pm
You’re a Plugger if your “carport” is a blue plastic tarp thrown over the top of your car.
September/14/2010
@ 8:20 pm
You know your a plugger if you have to” scroll down” on the compuetr more than 20 years to find your birth year”
September/14/2010
@ 8:21 pm
you know you are a plugger if the tail gate on your truck is used
as picnic table
October/5/2010
@ 3:53 pm
A plugger’s hearing aids are usually usually his children.
October/12/2010
@ 4:59 pm
your a plugger if you discovered that YOUR now a sunday driver!
November/6/2010
@ 3:32 pm
A plugger knows he’s old when the church basement kitchen
ladies are all younger than he is.
November/15/2010
@ 8:34 am
You are a plugger if you take the name brand tag off your work cloths and wear them as casual!
December/7/2010
@ 8:47 am
I have a Plugger to submit. How can I do this ?
December/15/2010
@ 4:35 pm
WHEN I AM WRONG I WILL ADMEET IT AND WHEN I AM RIGHT I WELL SHUT UP.PEOPLE WILL WORDER WHY I AM SO QUIET.
January/7/2011
@ 7:31 am
YOU CAN TELL A PLUGGER BY HOW STAINED HIS COFFEE POT IS, NOT ABLE TO TELL HOW MUCH
IN POT.
January/7/2011
@ 8:09 am
Great! Keep those PLUGGER ideas coming!
January/7/2011
@ 9:52 am
The pluggers definition of a rapid transit system would be. Mom,Dad,Baby and the dog on a 4 wheeler going to town.
January/7/2011
@ 10:59 am
This thread alone is reason to keep the comment system alive.
January/14/2011
@ 8:21 pm
A GOOD SNOW-FALL CAN MAKE A PLUGGERS LAWN LOOK JUST AS GOOD AS HIS NEIGHBORS.
January/14/2011
@ 8:48 pm
Yes! Good one! PLUGGERS gets better everyday, thanks to your submissions here! Keep em coming!
January/31/2011
@ 10:39 am
you’re a plugger when you recognize all the names on the top half of the celebrity birthdays and none on the bottom
March/10/2011
@ 6:58 am
“A Plugger’s hero is Yellow Fellow!”
April/5/2011
@ 12:13 pm
Just an idea for a plugger cartoon:
You know you are a senior plugger, when after filling your medication organizer, you find you can’t shut some of the lids!!!
May/30/2011
@ 4:53 pm
You are a Plugger if your shirts are so old that the tag says “Made in America.”
May/31/2011
@ 8:53 am
You are a Plugger if you post cartoon ideas to a professional blog, thinking the artist gets his ideas from there, even if the thread has been dead for months.
Oh. Wait a sec… Oops.
June/1/2011
@ 8:14 am
A plugger remembers when he could buy a carton of cigarettes and a tank of gas for five dollars
June/6/2011
@ 2:17 pm
Comment #9 remarked about the game “Kick The Can”.
Well, you know you’re a plugger when you can remember the game of “Kick The Can”-never mind the rules.
Anyone feel up to a game of “Annie Over”?
June/6/2011
@ 3:43 pm
A plugger can catch a fish with nothing but spit and a stick!
July/12/2011
@ 8:26 am
To a plugger “aol” stands for arsenic & ol’ lace.
July/17/2011
@ 9:29 am
you might be a plugger if you shake your shaving lather can and expect to hear a rattle ball.
July/17/2011
@ 4:32 pm
You’re a plugger if ;you paint your garage on Saturday, golf on Sunday , and use the same amount of strokes!
August/3/2011
@ 5:55 pm
Pluggers were “green” before it was fashionable. They have always used solar power and wind energy to line dry their clothes.
Pluggers have always recycled and given back to the earth.
They collect the water from their air conditioners and dehumidifiers to put on their gardens.
August/30/2011
@ 11:30 am
pluggers always carry extra pens left pocket
August/30/2011
@ 11:33 am
pluggers love early bird eat early and cheaper
August/30/2011
@ 11:34 am
pluggers buy gas by the dollar amount not by the gallon
August/30/2011
@ 11:36 am
pluggers know the route and time the mailmen will arrive
August/30/2011
@ 11:38 am
pluggers dont have url
August/30/2011
@ 11:40 am
pluggers dont text gossip they use the fence in the backyard
August/30/2011
@ 11:41 am
pluggers read a paper daily
September/8/2011
@ 8:01 pm
pluggers find the best concert seats on the sofa/couch with rented live videos from the 70′s and 80′s . the best seat in the house for bad vision and snack accessabillity
September/16/2011
@ 2:45 pm
(Plugger reading ragged road map)
“Plugger got his GPS free at his gas station years ago”
September/21/2011
@ 12:11 pm
A Plugger always checks the cereal box to see if there is a prize.
I know I always do.
September/21/2011
@ 12:14 pm
You just might be a plugger if you remember when Cracker Jack toys were more than just a little folding paper thing.
I remember getting metal and plastic toys…wish I had saved them!
October/25/2011
@ 11:06 am
you know your a pllugger when you think driving off road is when you go over the curb when you pull into your driveway
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