A little off topic, but here's a quick story about the USPS (who I think does an excellent job).
For the last two months, once a week, we were either getting no mail or our mail would show up in our mailbox at 9PM.
One night after work, I was frantic after coins that were due did not show up.
That same night, I went to our mailbox at 9:30PM and all of our mail was there including my coins.
To make a long story short; last week I got home early from work and decided to walk out dog. Looked in the mailbox and all of the mail was from another house half-a-mile down the road.
As am I walking the dog the postal carrier is driving on the other side of the road and I flag him down.
He comes out of the postal truck with flip-flops, sport shorts and a sleeveless shirt. He was a temp.
I asked him "what the heck are you doing?"
He then went on to explain that he wasn't reading the numbers on the mail boxes and was just putting the mail in the boxes where he thought they belonged.
I was like "What the heck!!!"
Then he was all apologetic.
He then took the mail I had in my hand and said "I gotta fix this."
Evidently he was doing it a lot.
Fortunately during that two month period, no mail was ever lost.
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