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The packages were shoved (“smashed”) into my mailbox. I ventured out in the cold and misting rain. I was eager for my “gifts”—and I had three weeks of trash for the dumpster (all those soiled Kleenex, etc.) ~~ With mail piling up in the box, it would have been nice if the postperson thought “Maybe she’s sick; I’ll put the mail on her porch.”