What a morning

I've just spent the better part of an hour on the phone with the electric company (always a joy, and no, my issue is still not worked out) and the postal service.

It turns out, the moron they employ as our [former] postal carrier says he "didn't know" about the forwarding order we had on file. It has been in effect for FIVE WEEKS and has been on file even longer than that. And the only reason I suspected this is because two people told me mail had been returned to them. Who knows how many other pieces of mail he returned??

Now normally I would be loathe to call anyone a "moron" who provided me with a valuable and necessary service on a daily basis, but this is also the braintrust who broke three dvds in the first month we lived there by shoving them into our mailbox. Three! Broke them in half. How much force does it take to snap a dvd in half? And you can imagine what our other mail looked like if that's what happens to a disc.

Incidentally, this is also the post office that, when I called about the three broken dvds, responded with, "What would you have us do about that?" Yeah, really instills the confidence in their level of service, doesn't it?

So anyway, this is all just to say: if you have tried to mail us something and it has been returned, I'm sorry. We were not so remiss that we didn't have our mail forwarded, it just didn't work, apparently. We have gotten some mail here, so if it hasn't been returned, you can be relatively sure that we got it. Well, maybe "relatively sure" is even stretching it. Hey, why don't you just check with us?!