Some of it may also be either nostalgia or wishful thinking, as many of us have been re-engineered into online writers after years of cobbling deeply reported pieces for newspapers and magazines.

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"In the six years I've been doing this job, these are the only Viking pieces reported to me, " she said.

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Suspicious parcels, reported bomb threats and seemingly odd pieces of mail prompted evacuations and emergency alerts from Washington to Arizona to Michigan.

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