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I've been very lucky with my service. Up until he retired I had the same Carrier for about 20 years. Good old guy. Likes to talk, and is really friendly.
I've always been buying stuff and having it shipped here, but it's only in the last 5-6 years I started ordering stuff from Japan, and the usual shops, and I start getting boxes once or twice a month from Japan. One day he drops by with a package from Mandarake. Stops to chat a while, and says "You sure are getting a lot of boxes from Japan. I never see that 'round these parts, whatcha getting if you don't mind me asking?"
I look him straight in the eye and with a straight face I say "Bob (not real name), I'm getting a mail order bride from Japan, but it costs too much to do it the normal way, so I'm having them do it piece by piece. Once I get them all, I put the parts together, and voila; Instant Japanese wife!"
He looks stunned for a minute, than once it sinks in he says "Oh bullshit. How in the hell can you be putting together a wife? It doesn't work like that!" I start laughing and explain, and he starts laughing, good times all around.
I explain that I'm branching out in my hobby, and invite him in to check out my den/office. He loves it. Thinks all the figures and such are cool. Tells me he collects Old West stuff, and his wife likes frogs, so she has a shelf full of various frog things.
Flash forward a few months, and a few parcels later, he tells me "The Mrs and I were in the city last week, ad we walked past a shop that has a whole bunch of stuff like you have. Thought you might like to know about it!'' Thank him for the info and next time I'm up in the city I check it out.
Anyway last year he retired, so I gave him a couple of western paintings by Remington my dad left me, and a couple of ceramic frogs for his wife. He still drops by once in a while to say hi.
So long story short (too late), not all postal workers are assholes.
