The postal service leaves much to be desired in India. Everyone has heard me explain my address change nightmare, just suffice it to say that we haven't received much mail here. What mail we have received is often torn, damp, shredded... However there are two items in particular that have literally been around the world and back. Zach worked all summer on a shelf that his friends had autographed with messages and artwork which my sister Julie mailed the day we left Kentucky in August. It never arrived in India but did finally make it back to Kentucky in late November, slightly worse for the wear. Also, at about the same time, my other sister Sarah mailed us a set of wind chimes she had given us as a going away gift. It arrived back in Kentucky on Dec. 17 in the condition you see in the picture! When I went to the post office in Kentucky to discuss my change of address situation, the postal supervisor dropped his jaw when I told him that he needed to know that the U.S. postal service is awesome and most people in the U.S. have no idea how lucky we are to have the reliability that we do with our mail in America. He stammered, "Well, thank you ma'am. Usually when somebody wants to talk to me, it's to complain!" I think I made his day...
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