"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night..."

"...stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."

So spake Herodotus, as we all know. The United States Postal Service's unofficial motto sort of applies here. Well, apart from the fact that hurricanes trump "swift completion."

Today, the 3rd of December, I received two Netflix movies that originally shipped on the 30th of August.

According to a spokeswoman from the USPS, "a letter mailed across town now must travel to Baton Rouge for a postmark, then to Houston to check for forwarding addresses, back to Baton Rouge, then on to St. Rose to be sorted for delivery and back to the appropriate local post office."

I'm honestly not complaining to receive mail. On some level, I'm amazed that our postal system works as well as it does.