Christmas just wouldn’t be complete without a last-minute visit to the post office. This afternoon was our day to send overnight packages to far away friends and family. It is a lovely day on the West Coast, with nary a cloud from San Diego to the Bay Area. Imagine our surprise when the postal clerk at the counter in Huntington Beach told us when sending a package to a son in San Francisco that “Due to the weather we are not guaranteeing overnight delivery. It will most likely be delivered Monday morning”.
Now I understand hubs and spokes and shipping centers, etc, but this is a simple package delivery 300 miles up the coast. You see the Post Office trucks and FedX trucks and UPS trucks going up and down the 5 all night long. It doesn’t matter how the package gets there as long as it gets there on time and 1-2 days is standard. Except, I guess, for the Post Office’s Overnight Mail. They’ll take your money for Overnight Delivery, of course, but no guarantees. I wonder what FedX and UPS would say?
And these are the people who want to take over our health care?
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