Post Office

Living in a small town has many great benefits. Sometime I'll go on and on about why I love living where I do.

However, this is just a quick rant.

Living in rural America has a few disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is that you're very far from shopping, etc. Luckily, we live in an age of catalog and online shopping. (I don't know how people did it here before online and catalog shopping!) Another disadvantage is no door-to-door mail delivery. Yes, I am serious. Where I live one must have a post office box and pick up his or her mail at the post office (which makes said post office the town hub; fodder for another post)

Recently I ordered something online and even paid extra for expedited shipping. Online tracking allowed me to know ahead of time that my package would arrive today, Saturday. (Online tracking also really rocks!)

So, I made a point to go to the post office at precisely noon. (While the counter isn't open on Saturdays, packages are to be picked up between 11:30 and 1:00 pm) When I arrived there seemed to be no one working. In fact, I didn't have any mail in my box. I was annoyed. So... I stopped back a while later. At this point I did have the infamous yellow card in my box (alerting me that a package had arrived!) but no one was there to hand me my item. Now I have to wait until Monday.

Not the end of the world. Still... I am annoyed.