What Can Brown Do For You?

Normally on work days I Ieave the house around 7am and get home a little bit before 7pm, so the timing of the mail delivery doesn’t make a whole lot of difference to me. However, I’ve been working from home since mid-March, and lately the mail drop has become an important part of my day, the one thing that takes me away from the phone and my screens full of never-ending words and info. From my office chair, I can look through the front window and see the USPS truck, the FedEx guy and the UPS dude bringing me the fun stuff.

Lately, though, UPS seems to have taken advice from Bruce Springsteen, who famously sang that “windows are for cheaters.” I don’t need no stinking window anymore because UPS can give me real time updates on where my package is sitting at any particular moment. Their app shows a little truck icon in my neighborhood and its progress as it brings me cardboard doses of happiness.

This may not be news to some of you, so I apologize if I’m rehashing the obvious, but to me this is absolutely mind-blowing. Rather than just assuming that my package of much-needed Hula Grubs or that rare small-batch swimbait will show up “at some point,” I can now be ready to grab it before it settles onto the front step. In truth, whether the stuff arrives at 9am or 5pm or anywhere in-between doesn’t really matter, because I’m glued to my screens until at least 5:30, but it just feels so much better to know that my stuff is getting closer. It might be a cosmic mind-trick, but I don’t care