More problems w/ my mail. Just before New Year's I put in an Amazon order of different types of items: 2 metal signs, 2 boxes of tealights from the same company but w/ different scents, an ornament, a shirt, and a pair of shoes. Often Amazon bunches up most of the order into one box but this time each item was coming separately. The ornament was first and I got that quickly at the beginning of January. Next was the shirt. I tracked the progression of the package to Churchtown where it was suddenly labeled 'undeliverable' and returned. That was quickly followed by one of the tealights which also made it as far as Churchtown before being labeled 'undeliverable'. What was going on? A little digging showed both were sent via UPS. For years I've had packages sent via UPS and they are dropped off at the post office where the Post Mistress puts it in my P.O. Box. I asked her today if there had been some kind of change. "Yes," she said. "At the beginning of the year UPS doesn't want to pay us to deliver the package into a P.O. Box so they won't deliver them." Great. I got a refund right away on the shirt but will have to work w/ Amazon to get a refund on the tealights. On top of this minor problem, I found out Cousin Ted and his wife didn't receive my Christmas card. It was a bit bulky for a card but I'd gone to the Post Mistress to make sure it had the correct postage and there wouldn't be any problems sending it through the mail. It had gone out on December 6th. Got a text msg from Ted today saying the card had arrived today. Well over a month later. I buy my Christmas cards in August 'cause the new designs are out by then, I'm sure of getting them, and they are often heavily discounted. With the U.S. Mail service degrading, I'll have to send those cards out in August too - if I want them to arrive in time for Christmas.
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