Grumpy

Let me preface this post with a brief statement: I love postal workers. I love the US Postal System. I seriously appreciate that I can count on you rain, shine, sleet, hail, etc. to deliver my mail!

That being said: What's up with grumpy mail carriers? 

Thanks to a dear snow-plowing city worker I ended up with a rather large snowdrift smack-dab in front of my mailbox the other day. So, thinking I'd be a kind and helpful citizen, I spent an hour and a half chipping away ice and snow to clear a lovely path for my beloved mail carrier. 

Exhibit A:

I was therefore somewhat dismayed when I reached into my mailbox today to find a note from said mail carrier threatening to discontinue service until I cleared away all snow from in front of my mailbox. (Yes, yes...before some of you get all up in arms...I do, in fact, understand that federal law blah blah blah states that a mail carrier needs to be able to reach the mailbox without leaving his/her vehicle. I know.) But I'm feeling a little unappreciated. A little put-off by a generic form used to communicate that my best wasn't good enough.

Luckily my husband is not as emotional about forms of any kind. He went straight to work after getting home tonight (in the dark) and made a mail-carrier-accessible-path right through that mound of snow. 

Thank heavens for him...I might have actually waited until my service was discontinued.