Tyson gets 'ear-mail'

 PHOENIX (AP) -- The postage was correct, so the U.S. Postal Service accepted a dozen dried-out, hairy pigs' ears addressed like individual fleshy postcards to ear-biting boxer Mike Tyson.
 "They were the weirdest things I've ever seen," Yolanda Stenson, a customer relations co-ordinator, said Monday.
 Each ear was about 13 centimetres long. Stamps were stuck to each one. And Tyson's address was written on the bare hide in felt-tip pen.
 Stenson said they apparently were dropped in a mail box, and postal workers processed them just like other packages last Wednesday, a week and a half after the notorious June 28 heavyweight bout in which Tyson chewed off a chunk of Evander Holyfield's right ear.
 "As long as it's not over 108 inches (2.75 metres) in length and girth and under 70 pounds (32 kilograms) and the postage is good, we'll try to deliver it," said postal worker Tony Gervasio.
 Gervasio said he once helped ship a tumbleweed to the Midwest and has carefully affixed stamps to everything from tree limbs to basketballs.
 "The only things we won't mail for you are cats, dogs and kids," he said, "no matter how much you'd like to send them."