Post-Awful 2

Most mail deliveries to the island go smoothly and without too much of an issue, despite what my last post on the mail suggested. We do recommend using priority mail, as those get sent on the next airplane, parcel post takes a more circuitous route to us. My Mom sent us a few packages for the holiday season. Most arrived in a timely fashion and were able to enrich our holidays. One package that had a few gifts to Sara didn't make it.

It turns out the package didn't disappear, it just took the slowest possible route to our island. It had been sent by parcel post. My Mom shipped it on November 7, 2011 from Lafayette, California it was picked up from the AG's Office's Post Office Box in Fagatogo, American Samoa on January 20, 2012, 2 months and 20 days after it was sent. Thus the Christmas candies and decorations were not very timely. The candies we can still put to use, the decorations will need to go in the closet until next year, sigh. Once again, USPS, you've made island living a little more isolated.