Neither snow, nor rain,
nor heat, nor gloom of night, stays these couriers from the swift completion of
their appointed rounds. This is the
Postal carrier’s creed.
Apparently it does not apply to dead end roads with two
houses on the street. Nope, no where do
I see mention of dead end roads in the creed – so I guess this is ok?
What is this? Well,
this is our mail. And the poundage of
the mail in the rubber band that the poor Saturday lady got stuck with, because
the regular carrier did not visit us for a couple days (5:8.4 lbs).
You see we don’t get our mail every day and neither does our
neighbor.
We joke about it and a popular question between us is “Did
you get any mail today”? But really, it’s
crappy. We can be standing on the front
lawn, looking down the street and we see the carrier go by and purposely not
turn up our street.
Complaining would be pointless, as the carrier is in
complete control. Who is to say we would
get ANY mail if we made a fuss. So
instead, almost SIX POUNDS of mail was rubber banded together throughout the
week and saved for the one day a week Saturday carrier…. If you ask me, THEY are
the ones that should be grumping, must make for one heavy bag!
Oh, and when we do get mail, there is no guarantee the mail is ours. Quite often
we get other peoples mail, on other streets, we even get mail for other cities! All of this confuses me, but I suppose, nowhere
in the creed does it say the mail has to go to the right house either.
One time we got a vacation bundle from someone who had
stopped the mail for what must have been a couple weeks. Really? The address of where this big vacation bundle
goes isn’t important? Of all the things
to mess up – that one seems crazy. Of
course, if you don’t deliver to our house every day, I suppose you wouldn’t
know that we weren’t on vacation too, if the carrier had bothered to make
deliveries, it should have seemed obvious – but alas.
So, next time you are shopping for a place to live and the
two house cul-de-sac looks delightful, just remember – you need a very LARGE mailbox
because mail delivery is sporadic, it's as if you live in the Alaskan Tundra and the
bush plane can’t get out everyday due to storms… but of course, the weather is
covered in the creed…
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