Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 30, 2019

Blah Blah Blah. WHO CARES ABOUT MAILBOXE!!

so many questions, so much mind-boggling answers

Don’t even get us started on conveyor belts!

Oh, chute!

“that is, if they don’t lose it somewhere along the way….”

Chutes, conveyer belts, etc. It is a long process, details are necessarily left out.

If you already knew, why did you ask?

The difference between boys and girls. To Charlie, the chute wasn’t important, so he didn’t mention it. But Sally wants every detail, and gets upset if he leaves anything out.

This was the first year, if I recall, when the mailboxes became all blue, instead of the red-top, blue bottom look they had for a long time… funny the things you notice in these comics from around that era. ;-)

What would be really fun is if they dropped it over your house, and it went down IN a chute (parachute)…

It’s all in the details: to send a letter overseas you would need a special air mail stamp, and a first-class stamp cost three cents except during the December holidays when, if you tucked the flap inside instead of licking the flap and sealing the envelope you could use a two-cent stamp to send your greeting card.

I always thought that it was magic. The way a letter or parcel in some small town got mixed in with all the letters and parcels from across the country and still arrived at their destination. And when I was in the Navy. I never did understand how the FPO, (Fleet Post Office), figured out how to get mail to a moving ship that might be halfway around the planet in a couple of weeks time from where it was when the ship last received mail.

And then, hopefully, it arrives at the local post office, goes on a truck for local delivery and is left at the wrong address. The postal service has a service called “informed delivery” which you can sign up for. It sends you a daily email with images of your mail due for the day. So far, 17 pieces have never shown up since July of last year. Call the 800 number, wherever that is and they tell you that the estimated wait time for a representative is two hours fifteen minutes. Pony express did better than that.

Similar to how babies are delivered.

With CNN, it’s the truth!

I remember this from many years ago when they spelled chute as shoot!

After reading this, I’m hearing “Powerhouse” by Raymond Scott playing in my head. If you’re not familiar with it, look it up. It’s used often in Looney Tunes cartoons, especially in assembly line sequences.

It goes down a chute. A New York City postal worker notices it’s addressed to Santa Claus. A truck takes all the letters to the court house where mailmen dump them on the judge’s desk and by virtue of the delivery Kris Kringle is confirmed to be Santa Claus.

and now you know the rest of the story.

The Post Office has cancelled mail delivery here in the Chicago area today. Maybe tomorrow too. Just sayin’….

Actually Sally rarely knows what anyone is talking about. Too young!

I had an incoming package from overseas make it to New York and then it took a free ride to Atlanta and back here. I’d love to hear the reason for that one. I don’t recall that route on the civil service test.