The check is in the mail

I had an interesting experience Friday afternoon.  It always happens Friday an hour or so before the end of the day.  I think sometimes Friday is the new Monday.

One of the accounting team members tracks me down and says remember that check you sent Express Mail?  The people did not get it.  Uuuuuggghhh!  Of course I do not have the tracking number.  It did not come off on the paper and I thought I should write it down.  Did I?  Naaa.  So I try to track down the tracking number.  First plan, check the unused Express mail forms.  Problem, not in sequential order.  I have no way of knowing the number.  Second plan, call our local post office.  Problem, they the need to tracking number to do anything.  Dead end.  Third, find the paper.  Problem, in the trash from two days ago.  So I dumpster dive.  After two attempts, I find the paper.  Still blank.

By this time it is time to go.  I think I will go by the post office and maybe a face to face chat will help.  Problem, close to their closing time and the line is out the door.  Plus, I have no information.  So I turn around and go home.

Monday comes.  I get the address to place it was sent. The person in Accounting says it was meant to be sent somewhere else, but in the haste to get it ready for next day did not.  So it went to the place addressed on the check.  So I call the main post office.  The guy says there is nothing he can do, but he gives me the phone number of the post office where it was to be delivered.  I call and talk to the nice person who says....here is the envelope right here.  Apparently the carrier could not get anyone at the business to sign for the Express mail package!  Hmm.  So I say I will see what the people want to do, whether put it out for delivery or have someone pick it up.  The guy in accounting calls his contact and she will have someone from the place it was intended to go pick it up.  So I call back the post office and say someone will pick it up.  I do get the tracking number this time, just in case.

I check the tracking online.  So sign of anything.  Then later I check.  I see the noticed of failed delivery.  Finally check back and see someone signed for it.  I guess it takes awhile for the system to update.

Anyway crisis averted.  The check was truly in the mail.  Somewhere.