When the postman doesn’t even ring once
Cats: Uncategorized|That was my situation for the first couple weeks of September.
Canada Post decided that my house and the house next door were vacant, and started sending back all my mail.
Yup, letters, bills, cheques – all sent back, informing senders I no longer live here.
I work out of my house and depend on Canada Post for cheques from clients. Now several are missing-in-action. This means that I have to take time out of my work schedule to track them down. That’s time not working and not earning.
But the bills, even though they didn’t arrive, are still due. Funny that.
And most disappointing of all was my Name-That-Blogger prize from the Bad Tempered Zombie. The package was turned around and send right back to Calgary, leaving Barbara the Zombie scratching her zombie-like head. Her perplexed email was one of many I received asking if I had in fact moved.
A complaint has been filed, and the corp. appears to be taking it seriously.
Let us hope so, lest my little typists go hungry because mama didn’t get her cheques in the mail.
It’s almost a Johnny Cash song.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
This, plain and simple, is the postman hatin’ on the Typist. He can’t freelance, he can’t lance a boil, he can’t put two sentences together, and he can’t handle the Mighty Gail.
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I hope you get some positive results, quickly. There was a huge scandal here with the US Postal Service in Chicago in the mid-90′s. The investigation found literally football-field piles of undelivered mail at one facility. One mail carrier was found with 40,000 pieces of undelivered mail in his truck (they never inspected vehicles) and another 20,000 pieces was found in some retired carrier’s basement when he moved.
The entire scandal started when a man who worked at home, and depended on the mail for his payments, didn’t get mail for nearly a week and went to complain.
This might be the start of something big, is what I’m saying. But really, I just hope you get your mail straightened out.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:02 am
You and your neighbour have got to start mowing your lawns more often! You’re just lucky the squatters didn’t move into your abandoned houses.
I hope you and the Little Typists cash those cheques and enjoy a big feed tonight!
September 24th, 2008 at 7:40 am
That is a home-office nightmare! Good luck — hopefully the red tape will not be long and thick…
September 24th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Cormac, that’s so sweet of you to mention the boil lancing. How did you know I was so talented in that respect?
Bubs, jees, maybe it is something big, maybe they’ll make a movie with me as the hero!
Barbara, maybe it was the peeling paint on the rotting window frame…. eeks.
YAM, you know it. Canada Post has been really good about this.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I heard Steve Carell in a recent interview say he worked for a short time as a postman in a small town (maybe in Maine?). Since the town was small, they didn’t have mail trucks and Carell had to use his own car. He claims for months after he moved to Chicago, he kept finding mail stuck between the seats, under the seats, in the floorboard …
So maybe a soon-to-be comedian was your mailman.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I’m currently waiting for the boxes I shipped from England and I’m really starting to worry. Waiting on the mail is for the birds.
I hope you were able to get everything sorted!
September 25th, 2008 at 12:50 am
“Cormac, that’s so sweet of you to mention the boil lancing. How did you know I was so talented in that respect?”
Um, that rugged Halifaxian (sp?) spirit?
September 25th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
We don’t have a mailman…or woman. We have a postmistress…or person. She…or they put the mail in the box…or thingy.
September 26th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I once had a major courier company tell me that they couldn’t deliver a package as my address didn’t exist. Imagine the questions I posed to myself and I hate philosophy! They eventually found a map and located me. Ridiculous. I laugh to myself because I never get mail on Friday but sometimes on Monday I get quite a bit, I wonder how that works?
September 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Grrr!
I just got back my little package I sent you, and I was sure it was my fault, even though I’m never wrong…
Will be resending or bringing in person, depending on what Rowbear finalizes.