And it is completely off topic, but I feel the need to complain. Ha!

So anyway…the US is coming off the biggest and most disruptive holiday week of the year. Our mail hasn’t been delivered since Saturday, and mail service had only begun to catch up from the Christmas Crunch. It is now Tuesday, January 2nd, and because of former president Gerald Ford’s funeral today there will be no mail until Wednesday.

This might not seem like a big deal to some, but since it is also the beginning of the new year and the beginning of a new month, important items which are being sent or received by mail will be delayed yet again.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that banks have a law where they can’t be closed for more than two days in a row – because they would then be basically denying us access to our money for an unreasonable amount of time. I wish the same was true of the Post Office.

So my apologies to the Ford family, I certainly mean you no disrespect, and I realize that your loved one’s death is more than an “inconvenience”. But for our country’s workforce, especially those that had to show up for work today, I think that flying the US Postal Service’s flags at half-mast would have been plenty appropriate.

I’ve aired my beef, you may now return to your regular gadget reading.