Rain, snow, sleet or hail...

There are so many things in our government that really piss me off. But today, I am particularly pissed at one specific branch.

The United States Post Office.

And to narrow it down further...My Mail Carrier.

I believe she hates me. And apparently, she is a saint at our local main branch. She has been losing our mail for years. However, when we report it they say "Ohhh, no. She's been with us for years. Maybe a substitute carrier lost your mail...but not her!" WTF? I have been STANDING at the mail box and she will put my mail in my neighbor's box. I promise! My neighbor's deliever my mail on a weekly basis!

Up until now, it has always been letters, junk mail, semi-unimportant things that have been "misplaced". But on Monday she finally proved her hatred of me. She lost a Christmas package. A $50 Wii game to be exact. So I reported it. Wanna guess what they told me? Yep. "She said she put it on your porch. Someone must have stolen it." Although, I had 3 packages on the porch on Monday, neither of them was this particular package. And the 3 packages that were actually delievered show that they were delievered at 3:15 pm. And that's exactly right, because I heard her on the porch and went out as she was getting back into her delievery truck. I picked up the 3 packages that were delievered at 3:15 pm at about 3:16 pm.

Mysteriously, the missing package was scanned at 8:36 am. The post office's excuse for this? "Sometimes, if we are short handed we have to pass off parts of the city to another carrier." Huh? But didn't she say that SHE put the package on my porch?

THEY MAKE ME WANNA PULL MY HAIR OUT!!!

End of story? It's my word against hers. And she is right, of course! Someone walked onto my porch somewhere between the time of 3:15 pm and 3:16 pm (they passed her on the sidewalk) and stole my package. Not all of my packages, oh no! Just the one.

Sooo...Congratulations, to my neighbor who received the FREE wii game, on me!!! (Or, of course, to the Invisible Man who stole it). Merry Christmas, asshole! (And that goes double to you, my dear Almighty Postal Carrier friend!)