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Friday my pay check wasn't in the mail. That's fine, I didn't look again until Sunday. No check.

So I figure when I get home--paycheck!

I get home at roughly quarter to 6 and the mail hasn't come yet. I know because the little flag is up showing the mail hasn't be picked up.

Sometime after 7 I head out to get a Diet coke and CHOCOLATE !! Because, yes, it's that time of the month.

When I get back teh mail hasn't come. Finally before 8 I go back out. The mail has arrived!

I reach in to find the latest Lush Times and some envelopes, these turn out to be junk mail.

No check.

I KNOW I turned my time sheet into the temp agency. I KNOW that I turned in my coworker's time sheet and he got paid, but through direct deposit. So tomorrow I'm going to call and find out where my check is. I know, I know I should do direct deposit, but I couldn't find my check book and I don't have the form they gave me (that they've given me THREE TIMES) and...it's such a mess.

I hate today. I'll probably hate tomorrow as well.

oh and I have to get all my shit out of my car so I can take it to the body shop. It's full of stuff that ended up in my car but now I have no idea where to put in the house.

Part of me wants to say I can't come in but I've had to miss work for various reasons and I don't want to be known as someone who shirks.

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Pile it in boxes in your room. Then sort through it on Saturday.

I know because the little flag is up showing the mail hasn't be picked up.

They pick up outgoing mail from your house!?!

Boggles.

Is this something that happens everywhere in the US?

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Prety much, as far as I know. As my wife explained to me: The mailman is standing right there *anyway*, so why not?

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Well, now I kind of want to know how it happens in Canada.

We have to take it to the post office or put it in the public mailboxes for pick up - you can't just give it to the mail carrier.

It's pretty much what Darth's wife said.

I mean, if the letters just need a stamp, which you have at your house, why should you drive some place to drop it in a box when the mailman coms to your house anyway?

Okay, see, I think that this is why so many of your postal workers snap and start shooting.

It's not the carriers that usually snap, it's the sorters and the ones boxed up inside the post office....

And there is always the possibility of getting your mail ripped off by a passing wanker, so use the flag at your own risk.

Dan! Hi, Dan!

{waves rapidly}

Hi Elena!

The post office says to place outgoing mail in your mailbox but not use the flag these days. The carrier sees it and takes it, but there's no external signal for rip-off artists, "Here's mail!"

I suppose a dedicated thief could check all mail boxes in a neighborhood but it's unlikely.

Hooray for chocolate!

Here's hoping you get your paycheck today. If you don't, find somebody to smack around with a dead fish.