Our postal workers are on strike right now (I mean I doubt it'll be resolved by the time this posts but you never know) and I am mulling over what to do about sending Christmas cards.
Right now we have no idea when the strike will be over but the hopes are that it will be on the sooner side (with good results for the workers of course) but with the awareness that it may not be AND that there will be delays when service restarts.
So, I am sort of currently planning to put my cards into mailboxes even though I know they're just going to sit there? rather than not putting them into boxes until the strike is over? I dunno.
I already had the return debacle and so am not going to try to send cards in any other way and I have another package to return that I'm just waiting out (they gave an extended return window thankfully) but like, I feel like I *assume* mailboxes are safe places to leave cards in and to be honest I kind of just want "cards" off my plate but I dunno.
I've check the "usual" dates for "mail by" and my International (mainly UK) cards need to be mailed the earliest and so they're for sure going to be "late" and any cards coming from there (I usually get a few from relatives) will also be later than usual so it kind of just is what it is?
I already have the cards and the stamps and I guess I'll decide in a week or so what I'm going to do with them if the strike is still on.
I like getting mail and in the last few weeks I've realized what a habit checking my mailbox (we have a mail box area in our building rather than a mail slot in our doors like you might in a home) is as it's been weird coming home and NOT going to the box to check for mail.
I do hope things resolve and I know it's really hard on small businesses and other things but I hope that the workers get what they deserve... times are tough all round and strikes aren't fun for anyone.
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