The past few days has been full of USPS BS, lots of helicopter noise, a few shots going off outside on the street in front of our living room window, and – well I guess the usual.
Today I called the supervisor at the USPS branch as asked. We had a short nice conversation she said she had talked to the carrier and our mail would be delivered and I promised to check the box more often. I hung up and went out to the box to get the mail. Guess what?
Ok I will tell you our box was full of someone elses mail – only one piece a junk mailer for a drug store was addressed to us. WTF!! Augh! So I called back and nicely – yes I was very nice at this point – well any way I explained we had a box full of the mail addressed to another unit – that so happens to be empty and none of our own mail. Now I am thinking this kind of proves my point that it was another unit empty and the dude messed up right? Wrong. I got transferred to another supervisor, had to explain the whole deal all over again. This supervisor so could not grasp that hello – you all made a mistake not us.
I was doing Ok until she said well, that is all past. HUH? No you don’t understand the wrong mail came today – I got no mail today – where is my mail? Answer – I don’t know. So what box did my mail go into or did you send it back again? I dunno. Oh for goodness sakes. She then again says well this all past and we are working . .. I said No it is today where is my MAIL!!! Oh I won’t know until I talk with the carrier tomorrow. I will try and find where the problem is. I said it is in the difference of one number xxx1 an xxx2!
Then I asked her to put a 10 day vacation hold on all our mail and we would pick it up there. She refused because guess what she knows we are not on vacation! I very rudely said – well since you don’t think we live here anyways whats the difference – umm the line got disconnected and they closed in one minute so they did not pick up when I called back.
So we are getting up early and will be at the main office door across town when they open. So I can turn in the mail that is not mine and find someone higher up who might agree that it is not a good thing that our mail is lost again in who knows whoms box and the folks that moved two months ago sure are not getting their mail either LOL this is past the point of finding any humor in.
Well on the lighter side here is a video on the death of my red porcupines (not live animals ok) . Curious? Here is the video:
I too get sentimental about things that have been with me through various trips and experiences.
Yah, mostly just for the humor of it all but it really was kind of a bummer because they do not make them anymore and new ones have to be bought and put on.
I don’t really like change LOL and humom swears sometimes when trying to do stuff!
Maybe I can find her some with dog paws on emm
Yeah, like when my first gel wheelchair cushion began to leak,therefore biting the dust. Or when I had to replace my first pair of crutch tips. Those porcies look like they might make good walker handles. See, I have this walker that stays outside my back door because I don’t like it; so I just use it on the patio in the summer. Anyway, one foam handle grip sticks out from under the eave and gets wet in the Tacoma rain all Winter long, and it finally died and fell off a couple weeks ago. SO, I need to replace it with something – maybe porcies! What do you think? PS: I’ve never been into a bike shop; it will be virgin territory for me.
I went to the bike shop with mom once – lots of racks full of stuff that looked kind of interesting as prospective dog chews.
Mom fell into the rack of seat bags and we had to play 50 bag and hanger hook pick up geezzz my furry little self was so embarrassed!
Catfish! How nice of you to reminisce, telling stories on your humom, but you didn’t answer my question. Do ya think Fred Meyer might carry these porcupine thingies? What is their diameter?
The best I can tell measuring the inner diameter of the grip the measurement is 22.2mm.
Grips with end caps come in many thicknesses and most common lengths are 90mm, 120mm and 130mm.
Some come with molded in ends and other have plugs for the ends. They come in different thicknesses also.
Price per pair start around 4 bucks and go on up and up and up LOL Average around 9 bucks.
The closest to the porcupine grips (no longer made) are called Lizard Skins Moab grips I am going to order a set and try them out. Right now I used Bontrager grips. The rubber they use in these grips is more cushy and last longer than the cheaper ones that you might remember from the old cruisers like the one speed schwinn’s.
The foam grips do not last that long on bikes either. A good bicycle shop will have several types of grips in stock and have helpful folks there. A bad one well …. leave! REI carries them.
Hope that helps.
Oh the nostalgia and memory wrapped up into things that have been on lots of journeys with us. Yeah, I know that. I have that feeling for my favorite coffee cup that I bought from an eccentric artistic living in the woods in Alaska about 20 years ago. I’ve hunkered over that thing pondering the shifts and turns in life’s road. If it ever breaks, I’m making something artsy from it.
The USPS. I had an issue with them a couple years ago. I could not find any official issue resolution/tracking process — they keep it all verbal. It appeared that they’re pretty well protected from any accountability from what I could tell.
Knowledge of your coffee cup requires a request for a photo of it in a post sometime! Just do not break it is posing for it modeling debut – what say you?
The USPS really does seem to be immune from any accountability.
We did go to the main office for our area more on that in a post but so far we might have success??