On a tangental note, I am now breathing a sigh of relief and so is Lauver. I had sold him a vintage maroon Matco phillips screwdriver for like $10(18" long, so apparently SIZE does matter), packed it in a 3" mailing tube and sent it through a grocery store outlet for the USPS. This was back in mid February. It just now got there this past week. I should let Lauver tell the rest of the story about all the reroute stampings etc., but I will likely not pack anything in a cylindrical shaped container in the future. For all those weeks it was MIA, I was thinking that it had rolled out of the back of some mail truck only to be rusting away in some ditch or gutter somewhere.
We had as recently as Thursday checked with the local USPS office and there's nothing they could do. We had also checked at the grocery store to make sure it wasn't lying on the floor there(acording to them, it wouldn't have been the first time). All the Iowa lost stuff goes to Atlanta(even though Minneapolis has a dead mail facility too,.....go figure).
With all the Post Office's troubles over the past few decades, I must say that the crew at the Cedar Falls 50613 building are awesome public servants and I wouldn't trade them for any Post Office in the coutry. They even laugh at my jokes.
Sleeping better now,
DM&FS
