Four cheers to the Postal Service’s decision...

Four cheers to the Postal Service’s decision to issue stamps commemorating “Stagecoach,” “Beau Geste,” “Gone With the Wind” and the “Wizard of Oz.” But there are other films that postal customers might also choose to honor such rites and occurrences as:

--The wait for a long-distance letter (“From Here to Eternity”).

--The mail carrier’s traditional four-legged adversary (“Cujo”).

--The latest postal reorganization (“Plan 9 from Outer Space”).

--The ever-increasing rate hikes (“Take the Money and Run”).

--And, lost letters (“The Abyss”).

A package addressed to Assemblyman Tom Hayden arrived at the Capitol, where a state police officer X-rayed it and noticed something alarming.

Did it contain some type of explosive device?

No, worse--it contained avocadoes and other produce that had traveled through Medfly land. It had been trucked north from the San Diego area, via United Parcel Service.

The avocadoes were seized by the officer, whose last name, by the way, was Green.

State agriculture agents were called to the scene.

Before more agencies could get involved, Hayden recognized the sender as state Farm Bureau President Robert Vice, a friend who lives near Fallbrook. The Santa Monica Assemblyman won the release of the avocadoes.

A good thing it wasn’t broccoli. . . .

It was slow times at Torrance High for students driving to school this week.

Several protested that they encountered traffic and parking problems because a section of the campus was roped off so that Aaron Spelling Productions could film a TV pilot.

Not only that, but over the entrance, the company tacked up a sign that said, “West Beverly Hills High.”

Maybe it was just a bad Spelling job.

Now, just a minute. . . .

A sign at a mid-city parking lot says: “Pharmacy Parking Only: Trespassers Will Be Violated.”

Caution: Dinosaur Crossing.

The creators haven’t signed their works. But Long Beach, already the home of the giant Spruce Goose, now sports the taped outlines of other strange critters on one stretch of 2nd Street, including an apparent stegosaurus (see accompanying photo).

MiscelLAny:

Back in 1859, L.A. real estate wasn’t so valuable. Pioneer Henry Hancock offered a company 110 acres of downtown land between Washington and Pico boulevards to settle a debt. Author Harris Newmark writes that the company chose “to take firewood instead.”