"out for delivery"

i LOVE seeing those words when i check a tracking number!

 

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Yeah, I've got one today too.

 

I have 2. Yeah!!!!!!

 

Ditto

 

Just like Christmas presents, I guess I just like surprises. Yesterday I got a package in the mail containing my latest antiquities associated with my ancient coins. It had 5 sogdian seal rings, and a bronze sogdian seal. Very interesting.

 

Did you fall of the wagon again Chrsmat?

 

ummmmmmmmmm........

well.......

depends on what you mean by....

yes.

i'm not a fan of the wagon really.

 

And then you get home from work and find that little pink slip saying you need to pick it up the next day at the post office. How disappointing.

 

When I'm not home during lunchtime to intercept my "important parcels", I'm pretty sure that this is the scene at my house!!

 

You know its serious when the cats and dogs team up

 

I like it when it says " Out for deliver, even though the mail man just passed your house, so I guess you'll have to wait another day, oh wait maybe he send the package to Phoenix for no reason and you'll be lucky to get it before the weakend.....maybe"

 

Recently I bought a bunch of coins from a guy in Portugal. About a month went by and I didn't get anything, so I wrote to him and asked if he had a tracking number. He sent it to me, I checked and it said it had been sitting at the post office for like two weeks. They never told me. Fortunately I was able to go pick it up.

A little later, I ordered from the same guy again, and a few weeks passed and I got one of those slips in my mailbox. So I went to the post office, and they couldn't find the package. The person said she'd wait until the mailman got back to ask him about it and then call me. A few days went by, no phone call, so I go back and get a different person. She went right back there and brought it out.

Both packages were about $60 worth of coins, which for me is a big expense, so it was a little tense for awhile.

 

LOL, my package was delivered to my office today but I was elsewhere-- and I'm working out of the country tomorrow. Guess I'll pick it up on the way to the airport.

I don't have residential mail delivery so getting things is tricky.

One time I was anxiously awaiting a fantastic new guitar and missed the FedEx delivery. It was a Friday. I drove around until I saw the truck and took delivery on the side of the road

 

My Mail-lady is a bit fricken random => if she ever stops and talks with my wife she says "Wow, your husband sure gets a lot of packages, eh?"

=> who does that? (don't they teach mail-carriers anything?)

Brutal!! => that should be Mail 101

 

Ouch. Busted!

 

I know ... again, who does that?!! (I guess I need to tip her a bit more at Christmas, eh?)

... geesh, maybe my wife is already greasing her palm!! (yup, she's as sly as a hot fox!!)

 

here it is, waiting on the kitchen table.....mrs chrsmat71 didn't ask any questions.








ptolemy iii euergetes
246-222 bc
ae hemidrachm
o: zeus
r: eagle on thunderbold, cornucopia...epsilon monogram.
sv 974
40 mm (BOOOM!)
43.6 g (BOOM!)
5 mm thick!

i've been wanting one of these big ol' ptolemy coins for a while now. saw this one up for auction and half heartedly went for it. thanks to TIF for giving me a pep talk, i got the...let's say "obols"...to get a bit aggressive (and realistic) and spend more money than i really could afford to. AND I'M VERY GLAD I DID!

 

KaBOOM! Yay, glad you got it!!

I like the way the patina highlights the devices.

OH, and just in time for the 'P' rulers tomorrow in the alphabet thread

 

That's bad. You're in worse trouble than you thought.