Ill Postina

Someone was having a bad mail day...and it wasn't me. It was the postal carrier who delivered this piece of registered mail from Malaysia, from Mimi of SleeplessInKL.

I had received a notice from the post office saying that they tried to deliver this letter to me on Monday. I wasn't around to sign for it. The card I got indicated that I could request for redelivery using that card OR go online on USPS.com to do that. I've been using the website a lot more to print postage anyway, especially when mailing parcels abroad, so I went online and entered the pertinent information and asked that they deliver it to me today.

When the mail carrier arrived, the doorbell rang, I answered the door, and I said "hello."

The lady in shorts with her face glistening in sweat, unsmiling, showed me the brown envelope which is somehow causing her a lot of trouble. She then curtly told me how next time, I should just fill out the notice card and leave it in the mailbox so they can redeliver it the next day.

I wanted to point out that the same card she's referring to also encouraged me that I can do that ONLINE, which I did. I understood then why she was peeved--she had to prepare a new card for me to sign. I decided not to aggravate her lousy mood, seeing that she's been driving around in the heat of the sun. She's stressing over a little piece of paper. Poor lady. She must really hate her job to go ballistic, nay, near-postal, over something that was clearly specified on the card that she was holding. I did it my way...(that's why things like online banking was invented) She didn't want to be inconvenienced.

I...refuse to have my day ruined over something trivial! I have other things to be worried about.

Anyway, near-postal postal employees aside, I want to thank Mimi for the wonderful fridge magnet and bookmark from Amsterdam that I had won on her blog contest! I love them both!