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Address Forwarding

10/9/2016

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​If you’ve moved any time recently, you understand the pain of shutting down your old place, with all the logistical issues, and getting your new home up and successfully running. Electricity, water, closing bank (and other) accounts, opening new ones, getting a new driver’s license, voter registration card and license plates are just a few of the projects to take on. It sometimes seems endless.
 
It’s a good feeling when things get done quickly, with no errors. That makes the move easier, your worries less. You can feel overwhelmed with so much to do, so you overlook when things go right, which is mostly what happens. The movers show up on time. Nothing breaks during the journey. Lights get turned on. The water flows through the faucet at the new place. Mail gets forwarded.
 
Mail is always a concern. If you have ANYTHING important coming to the old house, you stress about whether it will get forwarded. In your head, you know the answer is “yes.” Yet for some reason, emotionally you continue to worry about it, thinking that bills won’t get to you in time, or checks will get stolen or lost in the ether, never to be seen. You assume you’ll have to call someone to jettison a check and cut you a new one.
 
Subscriptions are another issue. During our most recent move, a nice surprise emerged – another positive in the world that I didn’t know about.
 
Some people presume the worst about the post office. Over and over they deliver mail on time, through horrible weather, making very few mistakes when it comes to getting your address correct. We should respect that. The price of a stamp is next to nothing consider that piece of mail could go cross country for less than 50 cents.
 
Now the price of mail is even lower. Have you noticed that the price of first class stamps has gone down? Neither had I until we bought our most recent packet of 100. A nice surprise.

The nicer surprise was that somehow the post office has figured out how to forward your magazine subscriptions. We still receive 4-5 through the mail. It’s one of those logistical pains to go online or call the magazine 800 number and get put on hold for 22 minutes that you avoid if possible.
 
The post office removes that headache. I found out my Sports Illustrated subscription had already been forwarded when I went online to do it myself. Remarkable.
 
The monthlies we subscribe to hadn’t been changed yet, so I guess the weeklies, because they come more frequently, received primo treatment. It doesn’t matter the reason. It’s an example of the post office doing the right thing, getting out in front of the ball.

This happens more than we think or consider. Good stuff happens all around us that we ignore.
 
When I worked at the U.S. Department of Energy almost 20 years ago, we were cleaning up land around the plants and facilities related to nuclear weapons production. That was a good thing. We put land back into productive use, land that now houses many people and helps positive economic activity.

We don’t often hear these stories. When we do, many like to conveniently ignore what has been accomplished.

Perhaps we should start respecting more what has been accomplished and salute those who get the job done. The individuals toiling in positions that improve our lot deserve recognition for that.
 
Let’s support them and stop pointing fingers so often. We might just make the world a better place.

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