USPS: What the hell?

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Some of you out there may remember that around a month and a half ago I wrote a disgruntled entry about how the USPS can blow me. That was because, as best as could be determined at the time, the USPS had managed to lose the original artwork to a commission I had with Blotch. The delivery confirmation said it had been dropped off weeks before somewhere in Peotone, IL -- which is most certainly not where I live.

You'll never believe what I found in my mailbox today -- although the whole fact that this entry is being made sort of gives away the answer. You guessed correctly: the envelope that I had utterly given up hope on somehow arrived today in my mailbox. No note from the postal office is attached, the envelope has never been opened, no explanation is provided for where this envelope has been the last 8 weeks. But you can bet that it has some stories to tell.

I have no answer for this, either...

Everything will be alright

Comments

[sylverfox.livejournal.com]

When I started working at my current job three years ago, I orderd my debit card and checks. At thi time, I'd also switched my voter's reg to Dupage County. So I was expecting things in the mail... that never came. No biggie. I had the card and checks cancelled and reissued. The voter's reg card didn't show up in time for the election. Oh well. We all know how that one wound up.

Anyway, about 8 months later, I come home to a plastic bag full of stuff that was in the mailbox, which was all of my missing mail from October '04. Needless to say, I was less than amused.

[amichele2.livejournal.com]

At least you envelope showed up. The issue with Marjan's package has yet to be resolved and this happened at the end of September, beginning of October. I doubt anything will come of it. Which means I need to get my rump on the phone again and bicker at them.

[gingerpook.livejournal.com]

Can anyone be able to put something in your mailbox? If so, the recipient of your wayward parcel may have decided to earn some good karma points.

Or possibly, took it to their post office for redelivery.

[urocyon.livejournal.com]

Strictly, no.^*  Not necessarily applicable to Jason's sitch, though.



_{*IANAL, etc.}

[jingle.livejournal.com]

Postal Service wormholes. Gotta love 'em. Looks like yours hit one of the newly identified S2M3 (super-slow misdirected media mail) wormholes.

[duckhunter.livejournal.com]

Back in the Pleocine (Around 1984, if I recall), I was going into high school, and I applied for a special class that had a limited amount of students.

The deadline came and went, so I registered as if I wasn't going to be in said class. Got a phone call later that week wondering why I didn't want to be in said class after I had been accepted.

Eyup. Acceptance lost in the mail. No big deal. Redid my schedule, and all was well with the world.

About 383 days after it was sent, I got my acceptence letter. Yep, over a year.

For added fun, my house was, litterally, a straight shot to the high school, about 1.5 miles away.

For those keeping score - That's .0001523 miles per hour. Just over 9 inches an hour.

But, hey - You got your art in one piece. That's always a bonus.