At Christmas time we sent a package to Chris' grandparents in Iowa that never got there.....In about February I went to the post office to pick up a registered letter that had no name on it but my address, when I got there they could not find it but I was not all that worried because there was not a name on it so I figured it was not that big of a deal, I was not even sure if the mail was for me because of the lack of a name on it. So then last week I get a letter in from the USPS that said, You mailed this package on December 18th and we tried to reach you by certified mail but did not get a reply (yeah you did not get a reply because YOU lost the letter!) anyway the package was found now.I called the USPS on Tuesday when I got the letter and asked why the package got stopped there and how I was about to go about getting it back. Apparently it was mailed in a box that said 10w-30 motor oil on it and they considered it a flammable liquid that exceeded the weight limit.
Also it did not have a name on the return address (hence the certified letter without a name on it) label just the address. So now that I am claiming that it is mine you can just send it back to Joplin and I can pick it up here. Nope can't do that because it is flammable liquid over a certain weight. But really it is not, it is Christmas gifts, but that is cool whatever I will play your game and come to Springfield to pick up the package. I told them that I would be there next Monday to get it. Christine's grandparents are coming into town this weekend from Iowa anyway so I can get it on Monday when I am off work and we can get it to them this weekend. Chris had to work this Monday but I can take the kids with me and just hop on up there.
So today comes and the kids and I go to Springfield to the post office. We get there and it is the longest line ever well in relations to the lines at the Joplin post office it is really long. The kids were just in the car for about 2 hours because we had to pay some other bills before we left town so they were all wound up and I am in line (kinda, while chasing kids) after I give the paper to the guy he makes a call and I go to this other door where a really nice guy is there to greet me. He checks my ID and then is gone for a really long time. As he returns he does not have a package. The guy tells me that the package is not there and when it was not he went to ask his supervisor where is was who told him that the package had sat there since December 18th and someone from Joplin post office had taken it back to Joplin on Friday to try to get it back to us. I pulled a line from Ken's dictionary and said," Really, I mean really?"
Ohh I could not believe this after holding the package for almost 6 months, and after I called them and asked them to send it back and got rejected there, then I told them that I would be there today to get it.
Uggggggggggggg
