If you can't believe a mailbox??!!

[susandennis]

So yesterday, I went out of my way to walk by the bigger of the two neighborhood post offices. (My closest one is really a sub office - I went to the one that mine is a sub of this time.) I did that so I could main my two Netflix returns in hopes of getting this week's movies before Christmas. (On later thought, I realized that Christmas is only one mailing day so it's really not that big a deal and it's not like I'm waiting for a hot new release.)

But, anyway... I got to the bigger P.O. only to discover that the next pickup of mail was 11 a.m. Monday - according to the schedule on the blue box. The lobby was closed. No other mailing opportunities. So, 11 a.m. Monday it is. Fine.

Except. It is now 8:15 a.m. Monday and I just got an email from Netflix that they got my returns already!!

Is this what they mean by time travel????

And on another post office related issue - gifts to mail carriers... My friend, Lee (of neighbors Lee and Sherry) came by on Saturday to wrap and retrieve Sherry's Christmas presents. We chatted. I told her about the very cool little pen/am/fm radio thing I got for Lee, my mail carrier. She whipped around and asked 'how much did it cost?' I told her $15 and she said ok... So I dug in and asked for the dets.

Lee works in personnel at the post office. She said that no postal employee is permitted to accept any gift with a value of more than $20 and if they are given such a gift they must return it. And no postal employee is allowed to accept cash at all. And she was all personnel police about it, too! Whew. I was sure glad my pen/am/fm radio thing was under $20!

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[susandennis]

I think the gift lesson here is... try not to discuss it in front of people from personnel!

I'm still in shock about the Sunday delivery. Amazing. I'm going to try it again maybe next Sunday and see if it was a fluke or note.