Well folks, 2020 has been full of surprises - and continues to reveal even more surprises. Denise and I shipped dozens of packages on 7 December - that apparently made it to the Memphis Postal Distribution Facility, where they were scanned on 11 December. From there, they seemingly went into another dimension, a dimension where time and distance has no meaning - “The DeJoy Zone” (insert haunting music here).
Other packages - including those shipped on 8 December have been delivered. Many of the 7 December packages still list only “In Transit, Arriving Late” on the USPS tracking website.
I understand the crush of the season, and thankfully, so do most of our customers. I also understand that as I write this missive, Tennessee is the WORLDWIDE Covid-19 hotspot, and absenteeism is heavy.
What I don’t understand (other than the attempted dismantling of the postal system infrastructure earlier this year by Postmaster Louis DeJoy), is that the postal service is not working on a first in, first out order processing system that is used by most private industry. Rather, apparently they are using a last in, first out method - a method popular with accountants for bookkeeping - but hardly the norm for production or order fulfillment. Notably, DeJoy was a CPA.
All this being said, we appreciate everyone’s patience, and wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas!
A few of you have approached us asking if we would publish a book. I want to make it clear - we are not publishers, we write and sell books, which are published by Schiffer, Ampersand, Squadron and a number of other fine companies - but we don’t publish any of these ourselves.
Sincerely,
David and Denise