Today is the 15th of November, almost seven weeks from Christmas and I am already fed up with the non-stop Christmas ads and other stuff. An apartment buildingacross the street from us already decorated its front lawn for the holiday. Ridiculous!
That idiotic Hallmark Channel is showing non stop Christmas movies for a few months now. Everybody is constantly grinning and their only preoccupation is how to get the biggest tree and what type of cookies to bake. Hey people, there is a real world outside with other problems. Oh yea, all the homes are decorated so richly that it turns my stomach. A tree in every room and every square inch of the house is hung with decorations. And on Hallmark hot chocolate is the national drink.
Stores are advertising their Christmas deals. The big question was if will there be a Black Friday this year with all the empty shelves and lack of merchandise? Do stores have enough merchandise to sell at attractive prices? Economists think that this year this will not happen, but only time will tell.
Anyway, I am bored with it. ___________________________________________________________________________________
Here is something interesting.
I always believed the US postal system was the best in the world. They were prompt and reliable. The emphasis in this WAS. Now, they are totally unreliable and without responsibility. Mail to other cities used to get in 2 or three days the most. Now if it gets there in a week we are lucky.
It doesn't matter if it is express or certified it still gets lost or sits in a distribution center for days.
We sent an official letter to Hungary using their express service. It cost $64 and we were told it would take about five days. For days it was sitting in a New York distribution center when suddenly it showed up in Doha, Qatar. Then from Qatar it went directly to Hungary. Iy is there now, waiting to be delivered.
Since that idiot country has no direct air service, it is difficult to send mail there. So I guess Qatar is the solution.
I love to send Christmas cards. I don't know if those will ever get there or Qatar will discard them because we are the infidel.
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