I know many people out there would call it procrastination. Personally I blame it on the years of a journalistic Vince Lombardi binary view of a deadline. You either meet your deadline or you don't.
I meet the deadline for my taxes. (Without much help from USPS.com)
The graphic on USPS.com was telling me to "Rest Easy." Rest easy, post offices will be open late. Rest easy, all you need is the postmark from today. Rest easy with the USPS.
The problem I had with resting easy was that the USPS was disseminating bad information. I rest easy when I can click one link and see what post offices are open late. I rest easy when I don't see a crowd of confused people looking at the locked doors of my local post office. I rest easy when I get better information from an official release than from a note taped a door. I will rest easy when I stop thinking about how I live in a city of millions and could only find one post office open late for tax day 2009.
All this not resting easy made me think about how easy it is to communicate badly even with the easiest of things. Even more it reminded me about how you feel when you make your slot.
I met my deadline, I'll rest easy.
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