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People who (hiiiii :ablobwave: ) obsessively track their postal deliveries know that there are certain sorting centers where packages that enter become doomed to inexplicable delays. I’m sure you think, like we did, that it’s due to overload, or understaffing or failing machinery. Nope; at last month’s Urban Exploration Fans Meetup we resolved to find out. Well. Can’t say it was high on our list of guesses, but the post office is infested with dragons. 13 comments
@jpm @Unixbigot Probably Dragons. Could be Giants. And if they might be giants, what are we going to do unless they are? . @rdm @jpm @Unixbigot I'm going to ignore the possibility that they might be giants, and simply imagine dragons instead The oldest and fattest dragons become excessively jealous of their hoards, and appreciative of all the soft bubble wrap in modern parcels. It’s all the postal staff can manage to hook out a few parcels each time the dragon’s attention wanders. Take solace, perhaps, that your delayed parcel is making a venerable dragon comfortable in their latter years. Postal dragons like fresh parcels, and will generally permit them to be removed from the hoard once the springyness has been squashed out of them. @Unixbigot I can confirm my postal dragon cousins do this. However they do not infest amazon as they have a moral compass. @froosh The other phenomenon that has a bearing on parcel delays is the Customs Elephants. Each parcel is sat on by an elephant so that the expelled gases may be chromatographed. When one of the elephants gets sick, random customs delays occur, due to queuing at the Elephant Stations.  |
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@Unixbigot The riders at Sunshine West Weyr had better get their act together, I’ve got chocolate in that parcel!