Wrong type of postman on the wrong type of push bike delivering the wrong size parcels, through the wrong size letterbox, chewed up by the wrong size dog, at the wrong address, because the wrong coloured snow covered up the wrong door number.

Now i have heard it all, Christmas is coming but Santa has got caught up at a Spanish airport no doubt.

And yet politicians in Washington D.C. can't understand why the postal service losses a small fortune every year. While private companies like UPS can do essentially the same thing profitably (and without shooting each other)! I hope it wasn't anything irreplaceable like Grandpa's ashes or bearer bond certificates!

And they don't have to deliver a thousand pieces of junk in your box to stay afloat.

Well Viv, since your in the UK, it is nice to know that your postal system is no better than ours

There was a case reported over hear last year of a letter arriving that was originally posted in 1977

I live in England and I've never know the post to be as rubbish as it is at the moment. My wife and I have been expecting a few parcels for about a month and still they haven't arrived. It must be the bad weather were having at the moment, as soon as there's a flake of snow the country stands still.