il postino. have you ever tried to track down the mailman while he's working the route? it's like finding a cop, there's always two when you don't need them but never one when you do. ms pamela left her wallet up in LA a few days back and she had it express mailed to her friend's house but the mailman never dropped it off as requested. so pam had to delay her return trip for a day in an attempt to get her wallet back this morning. but we woke up a little too late and the postman had already left on his deliveries and there was no way to contact him. in this day and age of cell phones and electronic gadgets and the mailman don't got no communication? that's taking snail mail to the extreme don't you think?



so we cruised the twenty two hundred through twenty five hundred block of carmel valley road and amazingly enough, found the damn guy. as soon as pam got her mouth open to say we were looking for a package, he was like "oh, twenty five oh five right? yeah, i just dropped it off." the larger gentleman then said something about not noticing the waiver to drop off the package on saturday. but we were happy. our mission was at an apparent end and we cruised two streets over to grab the package.



duuuude. the mailbox had a lock on it. and it was one of those security mailboxes where you can drop stuff in but a metal plate prevented you from pulling stuff out. we borrowed a construction worker's tool thingy and started to yank stuff out of the mailbox using our arms to reach into the locked part. pam yanked out some catalogs and some junk mail. i tried and actually pulled out a small package. i thought i was gonna be a big hero and save the day but naw, it was the wrong package. snikes.



after a few more failed attempts and one instance of trying to fish something out with gum, we decided to give up in order to get her to the airport on time. in short, we had quite an adventure trying to find the postman and the package but in the end, was totally unsuccessful. but mondays like this are far and few between. and now i know what to do when trying to recover a package from the postman. i know how to track him down and get him to spill his guts. well, either that or we could just wake up earlier.