I’m going postal

We may have run into our first hiccup with the postal service. As I’ve mentioned, we use a mail forwarding service to send our mail from South Dakota to wherever we are staying. But of course, we need to be staying there for more than a couple of days. Our mail is sent out on a Wednesday and typically reaches us on Friday or Saturday. But if we don’t get it Saturday, we won’t see it till Monday, of course.

Well, we were in Groveland (near Yosemite) through the 23rd of September (a Sunday), and didn’t receive our mail for the week. Uh oh. That was worrisome (we had not stopped delivery, and I expect something in the mail every week), so we left instructions for the campground to send it back when it arrived.

Sadly, they have no recollection of our mail arriving to be sent back, and our forwarding service says they would have called us if it had come back to them. It’s been over 10 days, so I assume it’s either lost in the mail, or the campground is lying (I’m talking to a manager tomorrow), or it was never sent in the first place. I’m kind of hoping for the third, since that’s the only way we’ll get that particular package (which should have some of my incoming swaps in it!)
Hopefully, the forwarding service simply didn’t send any mail to us that week. That would be better than the alternatives: the campground is lying, or the mail was lost entirely (which would suck).

Also, Lo Lo Mai (the place we left on Monday) doesn’t accept incoming mail for guests. So…. in essence, they are completely cut off.

We are in a place this week where we can get mail (yay!). The next time we can get mail will be sometime around the 20th of October, in Missouri.

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3 thoughts on “I’m going postal

  1. I find your adventures in trying to be connected and on the move fascinating.
    It is a great reason to push for more communication infrastructure.
    I’m also glad that Native Americans were able to provide a place for you!
    Drive safely, connect easily,
    -DJ

  2. The native tribes are the Avapai and Apache. We haven’t met many Native Americans– they seem to employ young anglos in their casinos. But we’re glad to throw some money into the tribes’ coffers.

  3. Mortaine,
    There is a company in CT that will receive your mail and scan it for you so that you can view it electronically at any time. Then, you can have them forward any chunk of mail you want at any time. The company is called http://www.bongous.com. Their primary business looks to be international mail forwarding, but it looks like they will handle domestic as well. Good luck!

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