Of course you have thousands of things to do in preparing for the upcoming holidays, and they will be tiring and inconvenient (I’m guessing). But your day is going to have trouble squeezing more than average sympathy from me because I this morning I got a glimpse of the letter-carrier’s day.
Do the words “weighty, awkward, cumbersome” added to ” a couple of awful bridges” bring Christmas cheer to your spirit? Not mine. This vehicle wonderfully shows the determination of the Italian postal system and its foot soldiers to get the serum to Nome. Sorry, I mean the mail — or your Amazon orders — to you. It reminds me of those fabulous motorbikes, the ones that buzz around Naples loaded with entire families, their sports gear (surfboards, lacrosse racquets, five-person tents), domestic animals, the Supreme Court, the 66th Armor Regiment, and so forth, as if it were nothing.
I used to admire the trash collectors, and I still do. But the letter-carriers have taken the game up to the Expert level.
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Happy Holidays…..all of them. Perhaps there was something jolly for you in that Postman cart. It’s a work of art and may be in the next biennial…..stay tuned.
I always appreciate your missives…..and wish I could be there, once again, also sending messages from abroad. jean
…not to mention pushing their carts through the tourist crowds… how they do it without losing their tempers, I don’t know. Here on Sant’Erasmo, it all arrives by boat and then either our dear Babbo Natale zooms around in his little car, or the Postie himself on his zoomie moto… Buone Feste!
This reveals institutional organization and individual dedication that is a far cry from the Italian mail scandal c. 1973, when it was discovered the postal system was so far behind that it had been taking truckloads of undelivered mail to paper-pulping plants. Or so the the publicity and rumor mill said. Your carrier deserves extra snaps and perhaps a gift bottle to thank him for his persistence!
It seems in a Heath Robinson way so much more effective than our own posties, even with trolleys, bags and vans. (Sighs) Memories….
Ella B