Dear Mr. Bezos / by kazh@mindspring.com

Aaargh. The United States Postal Service. Avoid like the plague, but they've discovered yet another crack in the wall through which to gain access to my life.

Apparently Amazon has contracted them to do the local deliveries, and the USPS tries to deliver on Sundays (to a known closed on Sundays address), documents it as closed, and the package which would normally arrive by Fedex or UPS on Monday then goes into the black hole of the postal service.

Of course the USPS knows the UPS Store is closed on Sundays. But do an inquiry and you'll get the response a form hasn't been filed declaring that or some other typical nonsense.

I can't opt out of Sunday deliveries, so only way to fix it is to write the boss.

Gsus. With the UPS Store, Fedex and Amazon, thought I'd managed to escape the gelatinous slower than tectonic plate shift tentacles of the USPS. Sigh.
(via Jiro on iPhone)