Not enough postage...yikes!!

Today, I posted several postcards and a letter. Well, so what? I realized after all mail had been picked up that the letter, which is destined to a land "across the pond," did not have the correct amount of postage, and will perhaps come back--I hope it does--or worst case scenario, it gets to its' destination and the recipient must pay to receive!! Not a good thing. No! No! No!.

I thought to myself, "this is really not good," because the recipient is my pen pal. Yikes! I was disgusted with myself, and was perturbed that, I'd stayed up half the night writing the letter-- that it would be lost and I would never get it back--that I would have to write it all over again--blah, blah, blah. By the way, I write all my letters by hand and I don't keep a copy. But, then I realized that with a return address the letter would be sent back to me and I could resend it. Or, and I cringe when I think that if it slips through, my pen pal would have to pay, and that is so embarrassing! I immediately, sent her an email, explaining what had happened, and that I apologize in advance if she receives a letter from me and had to pay to get it out of the post office, that I would refund her the cost of the postage with interest!

I know this happens to every person who writes and sends letters via snail mail, if it has not happened to you yet, then you are lucky! I have noticed that people will write on their Facebook wall about having to pay for the postage from a sender who forgot to put enough postage on the envelope. In those instances, I want to hide my face when I read it, because, it is not something I would want plastered over Facebook!! I would rather, get a note via email and handle it privately, but that's just me!!

Note to self: If unsure about the amount of postage to be used on any letter, always check with the post office. Do not be in such a rush to send a letter, that in the end will cause hard feelings, embarrassment, and allot more money, than if I had checked the postage in the first place.

I had mentioned that postcards were among the pile, well, those will be lost forever! I will have to resend those. I am not happy with myself, but I have learned a valuable lesson, one that I won't soon forget, and one that is worth sharing!