Pickles by Brian Crane for December 18, 2022

You have no trouble making friends do you Opal.

How would the mailman know that he put it in the wrong box?

I bet the Palmquists got the Pickles’ Christmas card by mistake and wondered who the Pickles are.

She should add them to her list so she can send them a card next year

How can she start to like someone she doesn’t know? Yes I know, it’s just a comic strip.

That’s because you didn’t know them…I bet if you did, then maybe you wouldn’t have liked them…

Olive, why didn’t you check to see if the letter was in fact addressed to you. I check the address on every letter I get when our regular carrier isn’t working. One sub carrier was misdelivering the mail for everyone on our street as the next street is only 1 number different, and all the houses on both streets have the same numbers. Took a visit to the local post office and a talk with the Rural carrier union rep to fix the problem. A phone call to the supervisor accomplished nothing, neither did talking to the local post master. Funny how when our mail was hand sorted we never had a problem, but since the post office automated letter sorting, we keep having the same problems over and over.

I get a card from someone I don’t know and addressed to me! Turns out it was my prankster brother!! I tried the same with him, but I’m not as sneaky as him and signed it with the same marker as his card from me, so I was busted, heck!!!

You expect us to believe that mailmen notice AND correct their own MISTAKES.?? (ha…… good one)

Why wouldn’t Opal notice that it wasn’t addressed to them?

I signed up for the USPS “informed delivery”. It hasn’t worked out as well as I had hoped.

They noticed who it was from but not that it wasn’t addressed to them?

I like her comment!

I was the original owner in my last house and for about 10 years I started getting a holiday card complete with a very long, very detailed printed letter that obviously everyone the people who received. I read the letters, threw out the card, and laughed. I have no idea who the person was who supposedly lived at my house or who sent the cards. I also have a former friend from decades ago who sends “organ recital” letters every yet, pre-printed also. We haven’t seen each other in decades. We worked together for a few years. I would send a card after a while and add a person to my signature, then eventually stopped sending a card since there was never anything to do with us. They moved to another state, and the cards kept coming. More surgeries, and procedures and obviously they were related to being obese and not taking care of themselves. I haven’t sent a card or anything at all for at least 5 years. I got a card and letter this year. I could well be dead, and they would never know. Years ago, I called and tried to set up a lunch or something, but she wasn’t interested. I don’t get the holiday letter inserts. This year it was more about visitors they have had and trips they took, and I know none of the people they mentioned. Bizarre. Maybe it’s some sort of fetish, similar to getting likes on social media.

Today, we’re lucky to get ANY PIECE OF MAIL ON TIME‼️

I would never like anyone named Palmquist.

A Palmquist was in my HS graduating class. What are the odds? But no cards since ’63….

They have to go by address. Deliver as addressed first, then, if they put it back out, the carrier can deliver it where they think it should go. There are reasons it may have a different address. First hand experience here.

Easy come easier go.

We do this type of thing on purpose to generate conversation.

I get some other peoples mail from time to time and drop it in their mailbox. The last time was kind of sad because it was my next neighbor who had passed away. :(

Palmquists, we hardly knew ye. . .

oh I thought you said the Psalmquists

do the Palmquists know Rosie Palm and her sisters?

Anyone else notice the typo?