Long time readers of this blog know that I've had my share of beefs with my local post office. Long lines and Kohl's coupons delivered after the sales are over, just to name a few. But this envelope in my mailbox yesterday takes the cake:
If you can't read the return address, it was being sent from Mountain Home, Utah to Pleasant View, Utah. Somehow, it ended up taking a 1700 mile detour to the Midwest. How it wound up in my mailbox is a complete mystery. I wrote a big, snide remark in red ink about it being delivered to the wrong city, state and zip so that John Stevens knows why it took so long for his brother Jerry to send him that newspaper clipping.
If you can't read the return address, it was being sent from Mountain Home, Utah to Pleasant View, Utah. Somehow, it ended up taking a 1700 mile detour to the Midwest. How it wound up in my mailbox is a complete mystery. I wrote a big, snide remark in red ink about it being delivered to the wrong city, state and zip so that John Stevens knows why it took so long for his brother Jerry to send him that newspaper clipping.
Hey, how'd you get my mail?!
ReplyDeleteIf my two missing issues of Glamour show up, please forward them so I can reinforce my complaints to the post office and/or the Conde Naste customer service branch!
ReplyDeleteThat is pretty bizarre. It's amazing it doesn't happen more often, though... when you think of how immense and complicated the whole system is and the sheer volume of printed material that gets processed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Flutter.. bizarre!
ReplyDeleteoutrageous. could you d a favor and check around for some of my christmas cards. i had several people ask if i got theirs and no i never did.
ReplyDeleteFTN - FAKOG forwarded it to me.
ReplyDeleteFADKOG - I'm convinced my mailman sits at the end of the street, eating his lunch and reading my magazines. Check your next copy for mayo stains!
Flutter - I love those stories about postcards that finally get delivered 50 years late.
JJ - I'd love to know the logic of how it got in my mailbox.
Lime - I think maybe people are lying about sending you cards!
This is probably why my husband thought it was crazy that I signed the boys up for pen pals.
ReplyDeleteHe does everything through email... everything else seems archaic to him.
Just another example of government at its best!
ReplyDeleteGlad you got my letter, I sent it to John on purpose. I gotz people in the post office, know what ahm sayin? ;)
ReplyDeleteThe Postal Service is paid way too much to screw this up. Hope my check comes soon....
ReplyDeleteSounds very similar to our mail service. A friend who lives less than a mile away sent me a birthday invitation ... it arrived 2 weeks later. I swear they must still be using ponies.
ReplyDeleteYou just can't count on reliable anthrax delivery these days.
ReplyDeleteI once got one of those "come pick up your package" notices rfom the mail. It had my grandmother's city and state listed and it was the day before Valentinne's Day. I knew it was her traditional box of chocolate she sent every year. But when I arrived at teh post office, they denied all knowledge of such a package. Those freakers ate my chocolates!
ReplyDeleteZip - I loved pen pals as a kid!
ReplyDeleteRuss - Ain't that the truth?
M - After a girl scout field trip to our local post office, nothing should surprise me about lazy govt workers and broken down machinery.
Mike - Waiting on checks is not fun.
Rhonda - Ponies would be quieter than the mail trucks at least.
Troop - LOL! I know! The Utah addresses were a bit creepy.
Agent - THAT IS UNBELIEVABLE! Are they sniffing or x-raying packages now?
That's pretty good. . . But then, we ARE talkin' a government agency here. . .
ReplyDeleteDes - Welcome home! Bet you have a lot of mail to go through!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine took a small group of friends on a tour of the mail facility where he worked. It was a regional facility through which all mail for the region came and went. As we were touring the area, some of us noticed a few stray envelopes on the floor under the machines. When we offered to pick them up and put them back on the conveyer belt, our friend told us not to, that it would be a federal violation for any of us to touch them then assured us that at some point a postal employee would be by to pick them up and take care of them.
ReplyDeleteI wonder sometimes if those poor envelopes ever made it anywhere beyond the postal service's floor.
what the ... ?
ReplyDeleteThat's just bizarre.
And this happens often to you? -- Your postman must have it out for you or something. lol ;)
Truey - I noticed the same thing when we did the Girl Scout tour. Mail all over the floor!
ReplyDeleteLB - Usually, it's just a dyslexic mix-up on the house number, not a totally different part of the country!