So many things to write about and so little time! Tonight I'm going to first blast off about the USPS, or US Postal Service. A couple of background notes:
1. Sometime in early December all of my mail was delivered to a family at 16 Thompson Lane.
2. Sometime in early February, I went online to have my mail held for 2 days while I was away. When I returned, mail had been delivered, and the mailbox door was hanging wide open. Surprise, surprise, I went to the PO with a print-out of my online request in hand to complain. The clerk passed me right on to the Postmaster, who apologized profusely and said they were training new mail carriers on my route.......so????
Following that, two of my bills (which always come at the same time) never showed up for the month. One was for my equity line of credit, and fearing having the line cut off, I called and made an electronic payment.
3. I went to Atlanta in late February, and after the above two experiences, I asked a neighbor to bring my mail in each day. All went well. In the mail delivered during that time (well after the due dates) the two missing bills appeared. Possibly they had been on a slow barge around Cape Horn??
4. Last week, when I went to Sanibel for 6 days, I went to the P.O. to fill out the yellow "hold mail" form. I said I would pick up my mail when I returned and re-start delivery. Upon arriving home last Thursday, I found probably one day's worth of mail in the mailbox. I can't say that I was too surprised. The next day I went to the PO to pick up the rest of my mail. Mission accomplished. Oh no, not exactly.
5. No mail has been delivered either on Saturday or today, Monday. It is literally impossible for me to believe that I received not even a piece of junk mail on either of those days. So. . . . I will make my way to the P.O. tomorrow to see if they have any mail for me, and complain, once again to the Postmaster regarding the delivery of mail on my route. No wonder the Postal Service is losing money hand over fist. If I had another option, I would certainly exercise it.
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