Monday, February 18, 2008
MAIL CALL
We have quit putting our outgoing mail in the mailbox for our mail lady to pick up.
A couple of weeks ago, I put a Netflix disc in the box and on a trip to see if the mail had come, the disc was gone.
But no incoming mail. There is never a day that we do not get some mail. Ever. I mean it. Usually 5-10 pieces.
Then the mail lady came and she had not taken it on a drive by. The only possibility.
That was it.
I had been mildly concerned over neighbors' stories about lost mail and have read about stolen checks and all.
Now, the mail goes in one of those big blue boxes out at Smoke Tree Mall.
I do the drop on the way to the gym.
I am not one of those who subscribe to the view that the world is going to hell but, when the mail box is no longer safe, I think that we might just be starting a move in that direction.
I am just saying.
In this city many, many people use the private box companies mostly because they are not full time residents but also because they do not even feel secure about getting incoming mail 'out there' a hundred feet in the old fashioned mail box.
I am not there yet.
It is a bit queasy though.
