mail order

the mail system has always fascinated me. there’s something to be said for getting a real letter in the mail–or even just handed to you. it’s something real, something tangible, something….something that has been on an adventure. it was sealed, stamped, and transported. it was handled by many different people and somehow found its way to your mailbox in just a few days. our mail comes late–not until almost five. sometimes i’m home early enough for the mail to come and i get to it first….the sorting, the opening….it’s exciting for me.
today i got a package from amazon. well. ben did. but we’d combined our orders to save on shipping, so i opened it as soon as it came. i think i’d like working for ups…or fed ex…or usps…i would guess that there are certain qualifications for those jobs. they get to drive trucks, after all. maybe it will just have to be something i dream about. bringing people packages, i mean.