Special Delivery

Yesterday, I received an email from a childhood friend that lives in Georgia who said that he received a letter from his mother dated May 22, 2008.  Yes, it was stamped, by the US Postal Service, May 22, 2008, and he received it on June 24, 2010.  I thought it was the joke of the day and quickly realized that he wasn't joking. 

For many years the people of the US Virgin Islands have complained about the poor service that the territory receives because all the mail has to travel to Puerto Ricoto be sorted and then transported from PR to Florida. (I recall two containers being lost in December 1991, that had Christmas cards and presents bound for the Virgin Islands, were lost for over a year.)

People in the Virgin Islands have complained to the Delegate to Congress, Donna Christian-Christensen, regarding the issue for years, but little has changed.

Maybe there is hope that the letter that my grandmother mailed in April 2003, might just arrive any day now?  I'm not holding my breath.