Claire ordered some stamps by mail in London and the Royal Mail shipped them here. Of course, Claire had confirmed with them the difference between her billing and shipping address. So I took the envelope to the Claremont PO and the nice guy said he would try to forward it to Claire (without charging me). He intimated that stuff like this had happened before.
Anyway, he spent about 5 minutes peeling off the address label (for what reason I have yet to determine) and telling me that as a child he used to open up all his Christmas presents early and then reseal them, so he was a real pro at this kind of activity. He even told me that one year he had gotten a car that you had to assemble, and by the time Christmas morning had rolled around, he had opened up that package enough times that he had actually already assembled the little car and it was ready to go when he officially opened his present! I got a good chuckle out of that.
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