sienamystic | Jun. 24th, 2009

So if a package is being sent to me via media mail, and it's been almost a month and it still hasn't gotten here, do I freak out or assume that the sender is acting in good faith when he tells me it was mailed at the right time? I'm anxious that it's been eaten by the postal demons, but my husband informs me that media mail is notorious for hiccuping every so often and disappearing packages into a black hole, from which they eventually emerge. (He apparently bought a textbook over the summer and had it arrive well into the semester.)

So: do I panic and email the sender? Relax for another week or so? Assume that this journal entry will act like washing my car during a drought, triggering a rainstorm? Lie in wait for my postman and harass him until he surrenders my Cosmo from 1932 and my Harper's Bazaar from 1933? What are the odds that he's sitting at home, reading them and chuckling at the hilarious vintage advertising, or shedding tears over the touching complete love story housed within the fragile pages?

Advise me, before I do something rash.