(NOTE: Please excuse this departure from my more serious posts.)
When I mail copies of my book, I have a habit of tracking them through delivery; a bit of due diligence. I have noted that my books are being routed from Arizona through a sorting facility in Bell Gardens, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles, no matter where they are addressed.
(Cartoon courtesy of Michael Ramirez, IBD,)
It was understandable that one mailing to Washington state passed through California, but recent copies mailed from Arizona to addresses in Michigan, and even those in Arizona, were routed through Bell Gardens. My inquiry about this practice at my post office, was met with a smile, a slight chuckle and a head shake.
A friend in Tucson told me that his intra-city mail is often routed through Phoenix.
Is it any wonder why they continue to lose money?
