Get A Horse!

Several years ago I visited St. Joseph, Missouri and saw the place where the Pony Express mail service originated. They told me that this service carried messages and mail from St. Joseph all the way to Sacramento, California in just 10 days. These riders didn’t have paved roads to travel, they had to ride their horses over all kinds of rough terrain and cross huge mountains to get to their destination.

Recently I ordered some necessities* from an e-Bay seller in New Jersey. She shipped the package the same day I placed my order. It traveled via mail truck from the post office where she mailed it to two other post offices in New Jersey, then out to a post office in the next county from where I live. Finally, the tracking said it was delivered to a town I’d never heard of in New Jersey the same day it actually arrived in my mail box—6 days after I ordered it.

So I have some advice for the Post Office. The next time I order a package from New Jersey, put the little box in a satchel, hop on a horse and gallop over the bridges to Long Island. Not only will I get my parcel quicker, but you’ll save a lot of money on gasoline.

*My human sidekick was muttering something about my definition of “necessities” as I wrote this, but since I was concentrating on my blog, I didn’t hear exactly what she said. I’m sure it wasn’t important.