Oct. 16, 2015

Dear Hildie:

Well, I sent a certified letter to a client. But what a chore: I went to the Audubon Post Office on Government, stood in line, and then was told they couldn’t send certified mail because they’d run out of forms! That carries incompetence to a new level. I sent a complaint to the USPS but from past experience that’ll have all the effect of a chant for rain. These people are hopeless. Once I was standing outside when, a quarter hour after the place was supposed to be open, they opened it and a cheery postal worker said, “You won’t mind if we open now, will you?” I said: “I wouldn’t have minded if you’d opened up when you were supposed to.” Once, at the Bennington Branch, they lost a certified letter from the Federal Government. Of course, the clerk said (shades of Yogi Berra), “It isn’t lost. We just can’t find it.”

Here’s another installment. Since CRIMES OF ARTEMUS KEEL is picaresque, I guess sending it in installments is appropriate.

 

Take care.

Love,

M