Yes, merely an envelope. Not because of any special postage stamp on it--it has been decades since the middle and high school years of stamp collecting. Not because the envelope had any cherished letter inside. Nor was I going to perform my version of Carnac the Magnificent either!
What was so special about it?
Because, it was a mail that I thought had been lost when it did not reach my parents even after two weeks,when typically letters got to Chennai from Eugene in anything from a week to ten days. Three weeks and nothing. We wrote it off.
And then during one of our daily Skype sessions, father had an update. The mail had reached them.
There was a reason for the delayed delivery. One did not have to dig deep to solve that mystery because it was right there on the front side of the envelope itself:
Figured it out, Sherlock?
Yep, the envelope got sent to Indonesia!
Is it just me, or does interesting stuff happen to everybody too on such regular basis? I find that the cosmos delivers to me more than I can possibly blog about ;)
Should be of interest especially to this old friend, who has been working and living in Jakarta for a while now, and will soon return to the sauna, er, Chennai ;)
(BTW, this is the only time ever, in all my twenty-seven years of mailing to the old country that there has been anything to write about the USPS that has been remarkably efficient, which often makes me wonder why there is all that fuss about the postal system.)
Speaking of Indonesia, did you catch the news about the election (non)result?
