PO = Post Office or Piss Off?

When we moved, there were many things we needed to get used to like; cows, dirt roads, driving ten minutes to a store, AND as ridiculous as it sounds, walk to the cluster mailboxes, which are each assigned to a section of the development, approximately 100 steps away from the house, to pick up our mail. Odd, but okay, I don’t mind helping to make someone’s job easier & if not having to get out of the truck makes their lives easier, I’m all for it. But now I think they’re purposely trying to Piss us Off! 

I was all for; occasionally getting a notice to pick up the mail at the Post Office because the small box was full, or occasionally receiving the wrong mail, but a small problem that began approximately a year or so ago, has become a huge issue and you can’t help but wonder if the mail people are deliberately messing with us! 

How can you tell?

IF, after the mail person speeds away in their turbo engine, micro machines, whipping around corners, all of your neighbors have to meet in the middle of the street to swap mail. Or when you need the jaws of life to get the stuffed packages out of the little metal box. Or when you don’t get there before they come the following day at an unusual hour & now you have a notice shoved in the box that falls out as soon as you open it advising you that your box is full & now you need to drive fifteen minutes to the Post Office to go pick it up!

It’s a problem that is exasperated during the Holiday Season. Tis the season to be jolly so I vow to make frequent trips to the cluster mailboxes to make sure you have plenty of room to shove as many packages in there as you can fit, if you promise to deliver the correct mail to us & try not to PISS us OFF!  

The Cranky Critic