Is it just here ....

....or do you think everyone's post office hires people based on how slowly they can perform? Holy moley! I dropped by today to pick up a package (a beautiful Christmas quilt that my step-mom made for us!!!) that was supposed to be re-delivered yesterday. It was not.
So I took my little slip into the post office and thought I could just run in, get the package and leave. Wrong-o!
There were two men in front of me, waiting at the little door where you pick up packages (totally different line from the 2 mile 'I-need-to-send-a-package-or-buy-stamps line'). The door had a smaller door inset into the top of it. Every once in a blue moon a woman would open the smaller door, pop her head through, grab someone' slip and hurriedly shut the door.
I felt like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" when she finally gets to the Wizard's palace and that little guy won't let her in. Seriously.
I think she would grab a slip, slam the door and then go sit down and have coffee. Or perhaps watch "Montel". Or "The View". Really.
She had evidently already grabbed the first man's slip because the first time I saw her pop her head out (after a 15 minute wait) she looked a bit startled that he was still there, waiting. She grabbed the 2nd man's slip and then mine and then popped back into her domain
When she would finally return with a package (after at least a 10 to 15 minute wait) she made much ado about hardly anything (or so it would seem). She painstakingly checked i.d.s, doodled on a pad, doodled on a package, stuck her head back in to say something to someone else hiding back there, and finally would relinquish the package, almost unwillingly.
When it was my turn to stand next to the door I had to fight the HUGE urge to say, "Please ma'am, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, I'd like to see the Wizard, if you don't mind. My friends & I would like to ask him if he could grant us a faster post office."
But I figured I'd never see my quilt if I did that. And, truth be told, I was a bit afraid.
I didn't need anyone going postal on me today.

P.S.
Here's the quilt!
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