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That reminds me of when the Olympics in Atlanta were happening the phone ticket sellers were directing New Mexico residents to call the international sales line.

As far as USPS goes, I'm starting to ship plants via UPS. They aren't much more expensive than the PO bit they have a better track record.

Speaking of the good ol' USPS...

This past Saturday was the NALC (National Association of Letter Carriers) annual food drive. My wife raided the cupboard and filled the bag that the local letter carrier had so "carefully" shoved into our mailbox a week or so ago with cans of soup, vegetables, probably some meat of some kind, etc.,. Nice little bag. Early that morning, hours before our usual range of delivery times) she carried the medium-sized white bag and set it beside the mailbox as instructions on the supplied bag said to do. My computer is situated by a window that with just a tiny bit of effort I can see the mailbox from my swivel chair. I heard the mail jeep slow down and veer off the road at the mailbox. I watched as the rain, snow, sleet, or hail mail"person" shoved our mail into the pretty white mailbox...and speed off, leaving the bag to bake in the sun. Hmmm, I left the bag laying there for a couple of days figuring they might pick it up on a separate day or something. After a few days I deemed the food inside "unfit"...what a waste, thanks to the USPS and NALC. This is the last time we will be participating in the food drive. Though next year when they hold their "food drive" I may save all the junk mail up and stuff it in the bag and leave that for them...but, then they'll start tossing my mail in a ditch somewhere.

Last autumn I had a Nepenthes being shipped from California via priority mail. It was delayed by 12 days. It kept going from one post office to another then back to the PO of origin. It was the weirdest thing. The PO is botching 10% of my deliveries.

That sounds like some eyeglasses we sent to a niece of ours that was in UAB hospital in Birmingham Alabama. From here in south Alabama to there…roughly a 150 mile trip. It left here, went to Montgomery…then to Atlanta. From there it headed east to SC, then NC. Then back to SC and to Atlanta again. Finally made it to Birmingham (niece had been discharged by then). But, the package then traveled around B’ham for a few days until it was vaporized or something. Never heard from that package again.

On more than one occasion in the past year or two I have had companies with which I do business contact me and asked me if my address has changed. Why? Because the post office has told him that is an undeliverable mail and there’s no such address. I’ve been living at this address for over 15 years. Can we say stupid or what?

There may be some unprintable characters that made their way into your original address, like x'00'. That would explain it being invalid. Or, they're just nuts.

The address controversy has been with the USPS before AI became a household word, but I'm confident that AI can make it even more interesting. It seems that when I enter my address on the USPS website it wants to shorten my address to read just "Hwy" rather than "Highway". I guess AI is lazy and doesn't want to have to use a long word. What should we expect? After all, AI is learning all of the acronyms being used on the web and social media.

And, BTW, in case some of you didn't know, UAB Hospital where I attempted to send the eyeglasses is an internationally known "teaching" hospital...it's BIG. The package acted like a pack of indians circling a wagontrain as it made trip after trip around the hospital...passing by the actual front door on several occasions. Its last known whereabouts was only 2 to 3 blocks from the hospital.