How have you been? I haven't heard from you in a while. You don't call, you don't write. You don't seem to be responding to external stimuli. I hate to bother you, but I have been waiting for a part for my wife's car for several weeks now, and I need it to get through inspection. You stopped giving me updates on its whereabouts a couple of weeks ago. You just seem despondent and to have totally lost interest in things - many of us are worried about you.
In addition to the part I need to get the car through state inspection, it's been over 2 weeks and you haven't delivered the Christmas card from my parents with the checks for her grandchildren. My brother hasn't received his either, nor my sister who lives only about 10 miles away from them. My 85 year-old mother is ready to go down to the bank and cancel the checks she wrote for her grandchildren.
I know 2020 has been a rough year for you. You were a political punching bag during the election, and then you had to deliver all those ballots. Then COVID came back with a vengeance just as you were trying to ramp up for Christmas. We all can understand that. But now I am really worried about you. Earlier this year the service was pretty bad as well, but back then you really seemed to have fun with it -- sending me bogus estimated delivery dates, bouncing my packages back and forth daily between Maryland and Virginia distribution centers, and flooding my phone with meaningless tracking update text messages. Ah....good times!
Maybe a nice big day three day weekend and the new year will put the bounce back into your step. Be proud -- remember, you're one of the few things the US Constitution specifically authorizes the Feds to do. Rock on, USPS, and don't forget to ask congress for a little extra this year!
