How long does it really take to get from there to here?

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

There is a problem with my mail delivery. It is not the fault of the United States Postal Service or their employees. You see, the mail gets from its origin to my mailbox at the end of my driveway in the normal amount of time. It is there the delivery stalls. It usually gets from the mailbox to my wife's van in pretty good time too as she checks the mailbox as she is on her way out to run errands. It is that last step, from the van to the house, that takes an inordinate amount of time. For even though it is only 10 feet from the garage to the house, it sometimes takes days to make that final step in the process. I have discussed this with my wife many times to no avail. What I need is another class of mail that bypasses this hitch in the system. Perhaps I should contact the post office with my suggestions on the matter. My father retired from the post office, maybe I could throw his name around for good measure.

This reminds me of my lunchtime "errand" today. When I leave my cubicle at work and head downstairs and through the double doors to the parking lot, I pass a table that usually holds packages from FedEx, DHL, etc. I think everyone that comes in or out of the building has to pass this table and has to notice these packages. I generally take the time to see if any are for me (they usually aren't but one time someone did FedEx me some M&M's, but that is a story for another day). I also check to see if I know the person they are addressed to or if the package looks important or was sent via Next Day Air (NDA - not necessarily  a sure sign it is important). It really kills me the number of NDA packages that sit there for a day or two before they are picked up. Think of the money the sender could have saved it they shipped ground or second day air! Anyway, today there was a NDA envelope there and it had the word "Payroll" written on it. This is a little odd since payroll is not done in our office. It turned out, it wasn't even supposed to come to our building but to a building a block away. I called the number listed on the package and this (according to them) this was somebody's paycheck (an important package indeed!). Now the delivery guy obviously messed up, as did the person in my building that signed for the package. So this NDA package made it several hundred miles in less than a day, but it took another 4 hours to get the last block of its journey. Which is still better time than my mail makes in its last leg and it only has 10 feet to go.

I guess FedEx owes me some mileage money.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon