I used to like Thursdays. Once upon a time, I led a bible study on Thursday morning. It was fun.
Now I deliver marriage mail on Thursday, if I have to work. Lately I’ve had to work every day.
Every Thursday as I’m pulling my bundles of marriage mail together and numbering them (because now they are addressed… that is a recent development), I say to myself, “It’s not going to be so bad.”
And every Thursday when I come back, hours later, from delivering the stuff, I say, “I hate friggin’ marriage mail!” while clenching my teeth.
Marriage mail is evil.
*Image borrowed/appropriated/stolen from the Greener Miami blog.
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August 2, 2007 at 8:50 pm
ashbo
i dont get it, what is marriage mail?
August 2, 2007 at 8:53 pm
jvjannotti
Hmmm… you’ve never seen that stuff in the picture?
Marriage mail is a nefarious shopping circular that gets delivered weekly. It used to come with a white card with a picture of a missing child on it that said, “Have you seen me?”
A couple of months ago those little white card were discontinued. Now the missing child picture is on the shopping circular itself.
I miss your blogging self.
August 3, 2007 at 12:52 am
Nicole
Here at our apartment complex, our mailman has it a bit easier. He doesn’t put the marriage mail in our boxes, because there is no way it would fit in the tiny cubicles. Instead, he (because I know it’s a he…well, one of 3 different “he’s”) places the correct number of junk mail in the little tray below our mailboxes. They all come with just the apartment building number and no apt. number on them. I don’t know what the point in me telling this is, just seems I wanted to.
August 3, 2007 at 7:27 am
beth
Jim, if it makes you feel any better, I don’t like marriage mail either. 🙂 It’s just one more thing to throw away – though you have to sort through it because there might be something in there, like, oh, a bill for the electricity tucked between the Safeway ads and the Dominos coupons. Not that I’ve thrown bills away and learned this the hard way. Nope. Not me. Never.
August 3, 2007 at 2:35 pm
gwynne
Just last night, I had to dig out the water bill, tossed like so much garbage in with the “marriage” mail. We don’t like marriage mail either. When will grocery stores do away with the stupid coupons and just discount their stuff already. Sheesh! 😉
August 6, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Stephen
I understand what it is, but why do you call it ‘marriage mail’?
August 6, 2007 at 3:31 pm
jvjannotti
Because you marry the advo card with the circular when you put it in the mailbox.
“Piss-off-the-carrier mail” would probably be a better name.