A Reprieve . . .
This morning started off at the Post Office. We had a package that tracking showed as out for delivery on December 28th at 11:07am.
Then sometime later that day an Alert popped up saying that ‘due to an unforeseen operation issue’ delivery was rescheduled for the next business day. And at that point it just disappeared. Never to be tracked again.
After letting the Holidays passed, I called the PO on Monday the 7th, gave them the tracking number and left my name and phone number. And then did it again on the 9th when I hadn’t heard anything.
And when I still hadn’t heard anything on Friday, I called again, and the let the phone right for about 15 minutes with no answer. And then again this past Monday, I made two more unanswered calls for 10-15 minutes each.
So figuring that the Post Office had started the Government Shutdown early, by not answering the phone, I stopped in on the way into work. And, in a ‘new’ twist, they took my name and phone number and said they’d call me.
For some reason I’m not really hopeful. But that’s probably just me.
And in a related note, I also handled another missing 1st Class package, this one we sent out to a customer in Bogota, Colombia, where as it happens I used to live in the early 60’s. And in a ‘strange’ coincidence, it also disappeared on the 28th of December. But in Bogota, this time.
And even the tracking was funny. It left Houston on the 13th of December and then took 4 days to get to Chicago. Why Chicago, I don’t know. That’s kind of in the wrong direction.
Then, it sat in Chicago from the 17th to the 28th. Doing what, I don’t know. Finally on the 28th, it left Chicago, went to Atlanta, and then on to Bogota. All on the 28th.
And then it too disappeared. Something strange about the 28th, I guess.
Landon’s just started his 3rd year of Hockey, and he’s ready to go.
We’re going up there on Sunday to see him play, and then have lunch with them at Floyd’s Cajun Seafood. Really looking forward to it.
And even better, Miss Piper may be going up with us.
Finishing up, we did get a little reprieve on Jan’s cataract surgery tomorrow morning. Last time we had to be there at 5:15am. But we get to sleep a couple of hours extra tomorrow since we don’t have to be there until 7:30.
Woo-Hoo!
Thought for the Day:
Sometimes the first step to forgiveness is to finally realize that the other person is just a complete idiot and not worth your time.
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