Ugh. I hate the USPS. I don’t want to hate the USPS. But I do. They suck big blue ones. In large cities they are riddled with apathy and incompetence, meanwhile, in small towns they’re riddled with nosy, gossipy busybodies who love their jobs because they can meddle in everyone’s business via their mail. Yes, some mail carriers work ridiculously hard in ridiculously horrific conditions, delivering mail in areas where no sane/sober/law abiding person would ever step foot, and props to them. Yes, there are some nice post offices with nice, helpful, pleasant postal workers, but they’re an anomaly.

I ordered stamps from the US Postal Service website. (The reasons for this are multiple and valid but are not important.) The stamps were, I kid you not, “lost en route,” then “delayed.” Four weeks later I began a three day fight for a refund. At the peak of the argument they said they never lost them and therefore never informed me that they were lost, even though I had the form postcard sent from the postal service, left by a postal worker in my post box informing me my stamp order was lost. The postal service finally relented and refunded the cost of the stamps, but not the cost of the shipping. Think about that for a minute.

Yes. The postal service would not refund the shipping fee for an order of postage stamps they lost. That sentence is an enigma wrapped in a riddle bound with a joke.

Glad you got your disk, though.