When I arrived home from work this evening I had a message on the phone. For once it wasn’t a telemarketer or a parent who never listens. Despite our answering machine clearly indicating our names in its message, parents frequently misdial a local school’s phone number an leave messages on our maching relating to little Johnny’s absence from school. Happens a couple of times a week all year long. But I digress. Today’s message was actually intended for me.

T’was Canada Post calling. Apparently one of their drivers had attempted to deliver a parcel to the house but found the address was a vacant lot. They were calling for a forwardig address. Only one problem. The address the rep rattled off on the answering machine was the correct address for our house.

I called them back and confirmed that they had the correct address. That’s when the fun began. The lady at Canada Post kept insisting that there was no house at this address and that it was only a vacant lot. I’m sure the neighbours would be surprised to know that the door they helped fix last night or the garage they helped build this summer don’t exist. After suggesting that perhaps the driver might have become lost and gone to the wrong address the woman continued to argue with me. Bah! As far as I’m aware there are no vacant lots on my block. However, one block over there are no houses. We have a little park at the end of the street. Perhaps the driver zigged when he was supposed to zag andfound himself at the park instead of driving up our street to the house. It’s either that or they confused the avenues and streets in the address.

Must be a new delivery driver since the regular postal delivery woman seems to have no issues finding the house in order to deliver packages to us. Christmas around the corner. Textbooks due for winter classes any day now. Lots of online Christmas completed and packages eagerly awaited.

Hope all those deliveries go well. In the meantime I’ll be picking up todays package from the postal outlet on Monday…

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