Reset Forty-Five, Day Fifteen
Oct. 20th, 2022 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphAlthough I was awake all day Wednesday, I missed a delivery from the Post Office. I found a little pink notice of the event taped to my front door. It gave the reason for not leaving the item, which was described as Large envelope, as the fact that "...it requires a payment of 18.90" but doesn't say what the payment is for (boxes marked "Postage due" and "Customs" are not checked. Three is no box for "COD" but I think that must be the reason. The thing is I haven't ordered anything, and I can't think of anyone who would send me a large mystery envelope COD.
A note on the back of the notice says I can check the USPS web site to see if redelivery is available, so I did that and it told me that it isn't (the web site is not easy to use, either.) I checked the site to see what I would need to do to pick the thing up at the post office myself, even though I have no intention of paying $18.90 for a pig in a poke (actually if I thought it was a pig, in or out of a poke, I might be willing to pay for it, though I have no idea where I would keep a pig. I just like the idea of getting one that cheap. But of course an actual pig wouldn't fit in even the largest envelope the Postal Service is willing to deliver.
But still, my curiosity is piqued, and I'd very much like to know who sent this mystery item. But it turns out I'm not going to be able to get a look at it and see the return address before refusing it. It turns out that in order to pick up something at the Post Office one is required to have a valid photo ID, and mine, alas, is expired. I don't know when I'll be able to get around to getting a new one, as visits to the DMV are both tedious to arrange and odious to do. So my mystery large envelope will remain a mystery. In five days I'll get a second and final notice, though the carrier will not have the item with them that day, and five days after that it will be returned to its sender. I certainly wouldn't be able to get anew ID in ten days (well, nine now.)
The one good thing about this is that, as I'd be unable to claim the envelope anyway, I won't have to make a trip to the Post Office. I suspect that the whole thing is a scam of some sort of grift anyway, since I ordered nothing and know of no one who would send me such a thing, and had I been aware when the delivery guy was here today (I was probably outside, where I can't really hear a knock on the door) I would almost certainly have refused to pay for the thing, unless the return address had revealed some information that suggested there was a reliable source for it. I suspect that some scammer just sends this sort of thing out to random people, has the Post Office send them the payment, and the recipient on opening the envelope finds something like a picture of that mean kid from The Simpsons saying "HA HA!" Would the US Postal Service enable such a con? If you don't think so, just Google the name Louis DeJoy. I wouldn't put it past the Postgrifter General to take a cut himself.
But, damn, it's annoying to have an unsolved mystery.
Anyway, I've been up since seven o'clock this morning, and ought to have taken a nap, but didn't, and I'm totally ready to sleep again, though going to bed this early means I'll probably wake up around five o'clock in the morning and Thursday will thus turn out even more unpleasant then Wednesday was. I didn't eat dinner again either, but I don't think I should take time to fix anything now. It's just too late, and I'll get overtired if I stay up longer. I might be already, though I hope not.
A note on the back of the notice says I can check the USPS web site to see if redelivery is available, so I did that and it told me that it isn't (the web site is not easy to use, either.) I checked the site to see what I would need to do to pick the thing up at the post office myself, even though I have no intention of paying $18.90 for a pig in a poke (actually if I thought it was a pig, in or out of a poke, I might be willing to pay for it, though I have no idea where I would keep a pig. I just like the idea of getting one that cheap. But of course an actual pig wouldn't fit in even the largest envelope the Postal Service is willing to deliver.
But still, my curiosity is piqued, and I'd very much like to know who sent this mystery item. But it turns out I'm not going to be able to get a look at it and see the return address before refusing it. It turns out that in order to pick up something at the Post Office one is required to have a valid photo ID, and mine, alas, is expired. I don't know when I'll be able to get around to getting a new one, as visits to the DMV are both tedious to arrange and odious to do. So my mystery large envelope will remain a mystery. In five days I'll get a second and final notice, though the carrier will not have the item with them that day, and five days after that it will be returned to its sender. I certainly wouldn't be able to get anew ID in ten days (well, nine now.)
The one good thing about this is that, as I'd be unable to claim the envelope anyway, I won't have to make a trip to the Post Office. I suspect that the whole thing is a scam of some sort of grift anyway, since I ordered nothing and know of no one who would send me such a thing, and had I been aware when the delivery guy was here today (I was probably outside, where I can't really hear a knock on the door) I would almost certainly have refused to pay for the thing, unless the return address had revealed some information that suggested there was a reliable source for it. I suspect that some scammer just sends this sort of thing out to random people, has the Post Office send them the payment, and the recipient on opening the envelope finds something like a picture of that mean kid from The Simpsons saying "HA HA!" Would the US Postal Service enable such a con? If you don't think so, just Google the name Louis DeJoy. I wouldn't put it past the Postgrifter General to take a cut himself.
But, damn, it's annoying to have an unsolved mystery.
Anyway, I've been up since seven o'clock this morning, and ought to have taken a nap, but didn't, and I'm totally ready to sleep again, though going to bed this early means I'll probably wake up around five o'clock in the morning and Thursday will thus turn out even more unpleasant then Wednesday was. I didn't eat dinner again either, but I don't think I should take time to fix anything now. It's just too late, and I'll get overtired if I stay up longer. I might be already, though I hope not.
