Worth Knowing

A few days ago, I was over at the little shopping center that’s just a block or so from the campus. There’s a drive-up mail box there and I noticed a postal service vehicle there and a mailman at the box. I didn’t think much of it at first, but did a double take when I processed the fact that the mailman was putting mail INTO the box instead of taking it out.
Now, that may not seem like much of a deal to you, but it struck me as kind of different that a mailman would be putting mail into the box. My thought was that this was a route carrier that had picked up mail from his route and instead of taking it back to the post office to put into the system, he was putting it into a box to be later picked up by someone else.
You may look at this and just say, “So??” If you do, so be it. You don’t have to read anything into this if you don’t wish to. But some of you undoubtedly will see the irony here; that someone who is supposed to deliver and process mail instead deposits it into a box to be handled by someone else…he’s just a regular Joe who is mailing some things.
So now you know. If you give a letter to your carrier, the chance may be good that he’ll just pull up to a drive-up box somewhere and mail it for you instead of carrying it all the way back to the post office. And isn’t that really worth knowing?