Grandma Mails Fruitcakes, Sues Postal Service

Lucille Greene, an 88-year-old grandmother, takes baking and mailing her family recipe fruitcakes seriously.

Greene says she went to the local post office to mail fruitcakes to relatives and friends when a postal worker asked her, "What kind of explosives do you have in here?" before shaking the box.

She says others in the post office laughed at her, leaving her upset and in tears. And she was so upset that she tripped over a concrete parking barrier outside and fell, breaking her glasses and chipping a tooth.

The first judge dismissed her allegations and her appeal because she had a prior eye condition. But US District Judge Sue Robinson wasn't entirely unsympathetic and said the clerk "was likely being less than courteous".

Despite having to go to a post office farther away from her home, Greene says she hasn't given up on fruitcakes as gifts.

"My lawyer got a couple this year", she says.

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