Recent Surprises

Since before Christmas I had made it a habit to be checking the post office for boxes that were coming in.  For a long time I was confounded, checking again and again without any success.  Last week we went to the post office and were surprised to find five boxes there as I mentioned previously.  But there was an aberrant package that I hadn't noticed previously.  As I was preparing to talk to my family and open my Christmas presents 'with' them I went to get my two packages.  As I carried them from my room I was wondering why there were two, I didn't remember two packages being sent.  I checked the post mark and was more than surprised to find that the one was postmarked January 7th.  It was only the 16th and I had gotten the packages two days before.  It turns out that it was my birthday package.  It took only one week to arrive while it took the other 6 to go the same distance.  To say the least we were shocked.

John