What happened to the Postal service?!

I am very disappointed with Postie this year. He has been a real let down!

It is the 31st and I am still receiving Christmas cards even though there was supposedly postal service the 2 Sundays before Christmas.

The most disappointing thing of all is the things that never arrived.
I applied for a few freebies in November/December time that never arrived although others on MSE that applied for them at the same time have received them. Also in the week before Christmas my 2 sisters and my Nan got Christmas cards from my Aunt with a picture of her Grandson in. I didn't get one even though the card for Debz was sent here to my house. I was quite miffed until mine arrived here on Saturday. It had been delivered to the wrong house and luckily whoever did have it posted through their door, very nicely put it back in the postbox with the words "Delivered to wrong address please re-direct"

We didn't get a cards from the kids' Aunt Tina either this year. That is very weird and leads me to think that there might be somthing wrong, In 16 years she has never missed a Christmas or Birthday. Unless Postie has had that too.

Bloody Friday 13th

(Today would have been my 16th wedding anniversary)

Usually it doesn't make a difference what day it is, I have never seen Friday 13th feel as bad before. I guess it was my fault, I should just have stayed inside.

I had a Cafepress order to collect from the post office (With £12 to pay customs) and I didn't want to wait.

I caught the bus into town first so I could nip to Gamestation and get the PSP game that DD wanted. Although it was absolutely throwing it down I managed to walk up to the post office near the train station.

Something I found out while waiting for my parcel was that there was actually a postal delivery strike on so there were a lot of people the other side of the counter. This meant that the wait wasn't long. I wasn't aware though that there had been any publicity about the strike - No wonder my photos didn't arrive in time to send to my Nan.

I got out of the office and realised that the number 40 bus goes that way into town. I thought I could get on it and go all the way round and get off at home. -That would be a no then! I was told I wasn't allowed to go all the way. I had to pay 90p, get off at the bottom of town, walk up to the top of town get on and pay 90p again. SO I had no choice really. I may as well have just walked all the way home as I was soaked through anyway. If the box wasn't so awkward to carry I would have done.

I got home 2 hours later, soaked through to the skin, shivering from the wetness yet sweating because I was so hot.

The saving grace from the the whole thing is that the 2 items I ordered came out brilliantly.

My Pillow

My shirt...errr should look like this...