return receipt

[dragonlady7]

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bomberqueen17 https://bomberqueen17.tumblr.com/post/651262508032737280/return-receipt:

so i sent something certified mail return receipt. the postal counter worker was like “oh get electronic receipt, it saves you a dollar seventy five” over, presumably, them mailing me a receipt. (This isn’t a thing I’ve done often.) so i said “sure”. i just now was like how do I get the electronic receipt? so I dug out the receipt to look at it. go online for delivery information, it says. so i look online. there’s all this information about the certified mail service. but there it explains, they email you the receipt.

if I did not give the counter person an email address, then how am I to access this receipt?

Well, it’s a mystery. Possibly someone has been emailed about whether this Very Important Document arrived or not, but I sure haven’t been. I remain baffled as to how this was meant to work.

And hopeful that since I mailed this thing on the third of May it’s really been there for quite a while by now. 😬

oh yeah pro tip the certified mail receipts have a tracking number preprinted on them. I was looking in the bits that the mail clerk’s printer printed on there when I bought it, but no, the tracking number’s already on there and is down the left edge.

Shoutout to my ADHD for totally dismissing that extremely distinctly formatted series of five sets of four digit numbers as decoration! It’s not like I deal with USPS tracking numbers on a daily basis at my office job, or anything.

Anyway I put it in and

It cost me six dollars to mail this letter a grand total of twelve miles with a postmark of May 5th, and I checked this status as of May 16th so that’s now nine days in transit excluding Sundays and the status hasn’t been updated in seven days excluding Sundays, and in conclusion I would like you to write to your Congressperson about Louis DeJoy potentially being executed by firing squad after a rigorous trial including the repayment of reparations, thank you very much; I don’t know that this is his fault per se but an awful lot is so it would help, I think.

(I have about three thousand dollars riding on this letter, with notary stamp affixed, arriving to its destination so I’m. Well. Trying to be calm about it, is all.) (Your picture was not posted)

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[minoanmiss]

I've been wanting to have DeJoy put in front of a firing squad for over a year.