It is Memorial Day so let’s honour the USPS for its service. Let’s remember that they deliver 90% plus of First Class Mail. Let’s remember that they deliver 70% plus of media mail. Let’s remember that they lose mail and parcels on a regular basis. Let’s remember that they muck up package deliveries on a regular basis sending, for example, a parcel of mine that arrived at its destination—Albany, NY-north to Lake Placid, NY and back to Springfield, Mass (north by south east) for a second time where it sits not having moved since presumably because it is Memorial Day. So let’s us remember on this Memorial Day Post Office incompetence and simple Post Office muck-ups. Praise the Lord.
A few hours after I wrote this, around 7:30 pm in fact, my parcel, which had been sitting in Springfield, Mass since 12:40 am, managed to make it back to Albany for its second visit just in time to sit there probably until Tuesday which means I won’t get something I should have gotten on Friday until Wednesday since Monday is the official day of Memorial Day, the day when some have a day off and can officially “celebrate” the state holiday by going shopping, barbecuing, resting and relaxing, and watching sports on the telly.
Isn’t it interesting how so many of these muck-ups at the USPS seem to occur around holidays, holidays when no mail is delivered by the US Post Office? It is as though there really is a real god resideing somewhere in the heavens who is using the post office to arbitrarily and whimsically punish us at his, her, or its fancy rather like that god in that wonderful play Steambath by Bruch Jay Friedman that played off Broadway in 1970 and on PBS in 1973, well on twenty-four PBS stations since the others refused to run it presumably because of its “controversial" subject matter and the fact that in the play god is depicted as a Puerto Rican male. America, home of the not so brave undefenders of the more symbolic than real free speech. But hey, at least PBS gives us and has given us since 1989, the live broadcast of the National Memorial Day Concert from the US Capitol in Washington DC. Praise the Lord and pass the nationalist ammunition.
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