The reminders can be as mundane as junk mail and even packages delivered decades after their intended recipients have moved on.
But now average Americans have stalkers too, who might smash their lives while they are going about some mundane task like opening mail or pumping gas or shopping at Home Depot.
Mr. Starr, who is not related to the special prosecutor of the same name who investigated President Bill Clinton, seemed eager to leave behind his more mundane existence paying bills, mailing checks and preparing taxes for celebrity clients, aiming to join the exclusive world he served.
The reason to take these intentions seriously is that since 1974, the Republican Party has stayed with such seemingly mundane efforts as direct-mail fund-raising, campaign training schools and recruiting candidates for state legislatures, treating them as farm teams to provide eventual major leaguers.
Desktop software isn't exactly an anachronism, but more mundane applications like e-mail, word processors and spreadsheets are moving online.
Police officers routinely arrest people on criminal-trespass charges with no justification, the suit says, creating what some residents describe as a police state in which they feel compelled to carry identification while performing mundane tasks like picking up mail or doing laundry.
When the Postal Service introduced its Zone Improvement Plan in 1963, the mundane goal was to identify the mail delivery station associated with an address.
Every day, people send personal e-mail messages both mundane ("Where should we go for dinner?" ) and potentially explosive ("Where should we go for dinner so that my wife doesn't find out?").
But more of it seems to have involved mundane tasks like monitoring myriad e-mail accounts — Mr. Headley alternated for a time between [email protected] and [email protected].
The Internet as first conceived was just a way for government agencies, universities and libraries to share information, and what they shared was fairly mundane: catalog entries, data files, e-mail messages.
