General Delivery

We had our mail sent, the first since early December. Only main post offices will accept 'General Delivery' and in this area the only main post office is West Palm Beach, near the airport and not particularly close to our location. To make sure it was at the post office and not waste a trip we paid for tracking and we were notified it was delivered. We decided to drop our back stay at the riggers and then go on to the post office plotting out our bus routes which would require three buses and two transfers in each direction. The closest bus route to the rigger was on the wrong side of I95 so we had to get off either before or after the street we wanted to find a way under or over I95. We got off before and began what we thought would be about a one mile walk After going under I95 we turned and started working our way toward our destination but soon found nothing but dead ends in a residential neighborhood. We asked a resident that was coming out to her car how to get through and she informed us there is a canal between here and there and we would have to go back around, which would be probably three or four miles. The good news is that she offered and we accepted a ride right to the riggers door front. By the way this whole time, buses , walking and car rides we were carrying the back stay with us. Having dropped the back stay off we were back on another bus and off to the post office. All was going well until they went looking for our package, reporting back it was not there. I said this tracking number indicates that it is. They entered in in their system, decided they should look again and returned with our package. We will always pay for the tracking after this experience. Three more bus rides and we were home in time for dinner, having started our journey right after breakfast. We are getting to see a lot of the area and becoming somewhat familiar by doing these excursions. In our package was all of our Christmas cards and letters so we had a very enjoyable evening.