Man received USPS package five years after ordering item
By John Crudele, New York Post, January 25, 2020
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Dear John: I read your blurb regarding the US Postal Service black hole, and it made me chuckle.
About 10 years ago, I sold an item on eBay and it was shipped from Philadelphia to Toronto. It was a routine sale, and I had countless overseas sales arrive successfully — but not this one.
Forty-five days after mailing the item, I received an annoyed email from the customer (who hadn’t received the item).
I apologized and refunded without question.
How this man even remembered me, but five years later I received an email thanking me for the item. It had arrived, and in one piece. I still wonder where it sat for five years. D.K.
Dear D.K.: I hope it wasn’t a fruit cake. I hear those things are only good for 4 ¹/₂ years.
Thanks for the laugh.
The post office prides itself on deliveries, even if they are a bit late — “neither snow, nor rain nor heat nor old age stays these couriers from the eventual completion of their appointed rounds.”
Seriously, I love the post office. And the IRS. And the FBI. And any other government agency that can make my life miserable. And you should, too.
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