So I've almost been a mail carrier in Bloomington, Indiana, for three months now. Its been a wild ride, but I've been hitting a snag--it's hard for me to prevent my days from molding into one. It's hard to pick out certain parts or events I found entertaining during my postal adventures cause, as I said, my days tend to mold together.

I hope to remedy that with this blog, writing about my daily occurrences and musings bout my life in the Postal Service. Some may be funny, some may be "meh", but that's not the point exactly. I want to avoid my experiences getting lost in the unfortunate redundancy of work and life, that way I can look back on them and enjoy them and you can, too!

With that being said, first post, GO!

Worked on route 33 today and had to deliver the Red Plum adverts. Ugh.... did I mention how I hated those things? Obviously not since this is my first post on the matter. Great little adverts, nice coupons, they are all good. Carrying them is another thing. The weight of them can add up in your satchel if you have at least 10 of them. Plus it's just another extra thing to carry, adding to your mail-load as it is already.

Anyways, didn't get that much sleep last night. Plus I arrived at work to discover bird shit on my shirt. As a co-worker noticed, it looked like a bird ate a raspberry and then pooped the remnants on my shirt. Ha! Not a usual start to a day, eh?

The highlight of my day was the robin's nest I usually walk under while delivering mail to a box on Atwater. I dubbed the bird Momma Robin, as she was always in her nest nursing her young when I approached. Of course, as the nest is right above the mailbox on the porch, I inherently make her quite angry every time I deliver the mail. She was a sight to see! Momma Robin would start chirping at me madly, flying around near some trees, and then would just perch on a branch and give me the evil eye all while chirping madly at me.

Today however I was greeted with silence when I approached the mailbox. The nest was empty and Momma Robin and her young have moved on. I couldn't help but feel a little sad--the usual encounter I had with the proud momma became routine and to have that cease, well yeah.... that's nature for ya and the circle of life and all that crap. I'm sure I'll have many other notable encounters with wildlife in the future while out delivering.

Here is a picture of the baby robins before they all grew up and flew off. No pics of Momma Robin on my phone--just imagine her in a nearby branch chirping wildly at me while I took this picture. My camera on my phone is pretty bad compared to most phones--I may get a better phone eventually but in the meantime, just gonna have to settle with my current phone and it's bad camera.

Well, post #1 down. Hopefully I can keep this updated daily--that'd be nice (in a perfect world). Who knows but I hope to have at least a daily entry or once every couple of days. Anyways, hope you enjoy this and take pleasure from viewing life as a postal carrier through my experiences. Lata!