Returned to sender

[muckefuck]

Must...break...livejournal cycling...

It was inevitable that, after posting about my father's and brother's foibles, one of my own would soon come to light. The other night, I found a returned letter in my mailbox. Puzzled, I kept examining the address for some sign of why it didn't make it to its destination. Then it struck to me: That's my city, state, and Zip Code on the envelope, not that of an East Coast bank.

DUH!

I'd still like to point out that it took a week for my local post office to determine that a street address within the local zip code does not exist.

Comments

[gopower.livejournal.com]

To be charitable to the post office (someone should every now and then), your complaint makes sense only if the postal clerk's directive on seeing the ZIP code/address mismatch was to return it to sender. More likely, a human clerk was probably assigned to see if they could figure out the correct address, e.g., was it a correct Chicago address with the wrong ZIP or could it be a similar street within the ZIP code or in Chicago. Maybe it took a week because they were making the extra effort to serve you.