{"id":251,"date":"2008-09-26T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/09\/going-postal.html"},"modified":"2008-09-26T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:52:00","slug":"going-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2008\/09\/going-postal.html","title":{"rendered":"Going Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a nemesis. This is quite exciting for me, because I haven&#8217;t had a nemesis since Adam was at HBS (ah, RS, where are you now?). But now, now I have one. And it is&#8230; our mail carrier! I&#8217;ve never loved our mail carrier&#8211;she shoves envelopes in magazines and flyers so they&#8217;re hard to find and occasionally get tossed and then retrieved from recycling. She often misdelivers mail. But last week was the kicker. Our mail stopped coming. I mean completely. I went to the main post office, dragging a sleepy Pie, and picked up my mail. &#8220;She&#8217;s deemed it unsafe to deliver to your house because of the construction,&#8221; I was told. &#8220;You can call her in the morning to figure something out.&#8221; Unsafe? I walk into that house everyday with my two children. Would I do that if it were unsafe? There&#8217;s no construction at all on the front porch. <\/p>\n<p>I was so annoyed by this that I made Adam call, because I knew I wouldn&#8217;t be nice. &#8220;We have to move the mailbox to the light pole or the tree,&#8221; Adam told me. Adam went in the morning to try and move it to the light pole, but whatever he bought to do it, didn&#8217;t do the trick, so our contractor moved the mailbox to the outside of the porch, as you see here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/photo-735762-735829.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[251]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/uploaded_images\/photo-735762-735814.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came home that afternoon to no mail. &#8220;I saw your mail person,&#8221; my contractor said. &#8220;She said its still too dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>That&#8217;s<\/i> too dangerous?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He shrugged. &#8220;The box has to be on the pole or the tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She said that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And she didn&#8217;t just give you the mail to place in the mailbox?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next day we had mail delivery. I asked the contractor but I knew even before he answered that it was our weekend guy subbing in. <i>He<\/i> didn&#8217;t deem it too dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The box has since moved to our tree. But I&#8217;m bitter. And annoyed. And I have a nemesis. I am plotting my revenge&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a nemesis. This is quite exciting for me, because I haven&#8217;t had a nemesis since Adam was at HBS (ah, RS, where are you now?). But now, now I have one. And it is&#8230; our mail carrier! I&#8217;ve never loved our mail carrier&#8211;she shoves envelopes in magazines and flyers so they&#8217;re hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}