Postal services - something we take for granted.  The daily pick up of bills, flyers and magazines happens without us really ever thinking about it, and when it's suddenly taken away it's discombobulating!  (Insert funny bobblehead here.)   Canada Post is on strike, and has been for well over a week.  At first I didn't think much about it as all of our bills are paid online or with automatic withdrawal.  Not needing to sort through the 'junk' that inevitably comes each day was a little refreshing at first.  As far as I was concerned nothing was coming in the mail that was too important to me until I remembered... passports!  We renewed the kid's passports and are awaiting their arrival, which until this strike was a pretty straightforward process.  We don't leave for about 6 weeks but who knows how long this strike will go on for?  Then I started to think about how much mail is delivered to our house in a week and multiply that by millions of households and how are they going to deal with the backlog?  I will not start to freak out until we are two weeks to departure… so let's hope it doesn't get to that point.

Purolater and FedEx must be making a mint, they probably love the strike!  Me, not so much.   Time to go chew my fingernails...