Friday, February 26, 2010

Matt's funny story...

I sent Matt a Valentine's day box a month ago. I was really good and made sure I sent it out in plenty of time for the big day. Except he didn't get it. And he didn't get it. And he still didn't get it. It was nearly a month before he got his package- a week and a half after Valentines day! But here is the funny story: Matt has been checking his box nearly every day. And about once or twice a week he's recieved a notice that there is an oversized package waiting. But when he checked, it was actually for another guy. Matt kept wondering why the post office kept giving him this guy's packages seeing as his name was on the box. If he was the previous box owner, why didn't they forward the packages already? Well, on Tuesday he got fed up with not getting his package and he asked at the counter if they would check things out and help him. It turns out... Matt had been checking someone else's mailbox for an entire month! When they assigned him his box they wrote on a slip of paper the box number and the box combination. BUT, they put the wrong box number on the slip. Matt went to the wrong box, entered the right combination several times then told the counter that the combo wasn't working. So they looked up the box number (the wrong box number remember) and sure enough, it was the wrong combo! So they gave him the combination to the wrong box! When I mailed his package I put the wrong box number on the package (the number to the box he was checking) but when they got it in they looked at his name and put the slip in his right box rather than the box that fit the address. When they finally figured that out he got his correct box number and combination and sure enough, there was the package I sent! Now we just wonder what that poor guy kept thinking when Matt repeatedly returned the 'oversized package' slips to the counter. Did he ever get his stuff?

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