Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 27, 2022

Of course there’s no such thing as 2-day Priority mail.

How jaded we’ve become. Every day, 6 days a week, an agent of the federal government personally stops by your house or business on the off chance that you might want to send a birthday card to Grandma somewhere — anywhere! — in America. And then, for about half a buck (1/10 the price of the card itself), she’s reading it a couple of days later. Why is this not absolutely mind-blowing?

And they do it here in AZ when it’s averaging 105 or better even though most of those vehicles they drive around don’t even have A/C!

Of course! If she’d paid twice as much, it would have gone by overnight, which would have cut the time in half.

Jeff, if you’re out there in Michigan still, I don’t know if you paid attention earlier in the year, but our post office here still hasn’t reopened the lobby after that woman set it on fire from frustration, causing a couple hundred thousand in damage…and the mail still takes days and days to get here.

Does she know how a mailbox works?

Smart kid. A forced break might be the best thing for her dad and for his relationship with his child. Maybe if folks had to send their cell phones somewhere for service about once a month, it might break the chain of constant thumbing and clicking and ooh-aahing over inane vids of nothing much.

I still send family photos via email or print and send via USPS because I think they is an important record of our tribe. Granddaughter keeps hers in an endless file on her phone. When she wants to show me a current photo of our new great granddaughter, she flips through dozens or grosses of files to find one. By the time she has swashed through the first hundred, zip-zip-zip-zip here! No — that’s not it, Zip repeat, repeat, etc, the child is older and I need a nap. Digital convenience for some. Pain in the butt for others.

Of course when the USPS finds that lithium battery in the mail things will change and if its over 10oz it can’t be mailed through a dropbox. Sounds like our phone will be off on an odyssey.

Somehow I think this will be the opposite of a vacation, especially if her dad needs that phone for work. But I get it, so many of my older friends complain that their kids ignore THEIR kids because they’re always on their phones. One of them finally told her daughter to put down her phone and pay attention to her child.

Hey, nice one, kid!

It took me 3 panels, but now I finally get it.

Brilliant!

Caulfield approves!

I like the idea!

So THAT was it.

Don’t worry, Dad! During our vacation, you will be able to locate your childhood hero Charlie Brown and find that he is still on the pitcher’s mound after today’s baseball game!!

Brilliant and worth the wait! Thanks cyclist JefLisr

Brilliant, in both lead up and reveal. Especially yesterday’s “twice as much, half as long.”

I think he’s going to be the opposite of grateful. Might ground her for a week.

So what did the “spend twice as much… it would only be half as long” bit mean? Unless it’s an vauge inference on the efficiency-to-cost ratio for mailing things.

USPS does have a 2 day priority mail service.And it usually takes about a week.

That’s a pretty dumb thing to do