“Um, just drop it in the mailbox, dude.”
No word of a lie, but I just got off the phone with someone who wanted to know how to mail a letter to Canada. He was calling from New York and apparently, he got something in the mail from a company that shares the same postal code as mine does. He plugged in the postal code into a browser, saw my number, then called.
I thought it was a joke. Maybe a New York based radio station running a segment trying to confuse Canadians or something. But when the guy asked why the zip code had letters in it, I knew that the call wasn’t a joke. He then admitted that this was his first time sending a piece of mail outside his own city, so I think that explains it.
Sadly, there are many people in this world who have never travelled outside their own city blocks.
That is so true Leesa. I was speaking at an adult education research conference in Halifax last week and met a college teacher who has not visited any other city than the GTA (Toronto) until last week (she is 29).
I understand what Kelly said about not traveling and living in one’s own space/world. My immediate response (self-talk mostly) though when I spoke with this teacher of adult education was to ask if she surfs the net as an alternative to traveling. “Nope” and she wasn’t even curious about my research of liveblogging that academic conference (as an aside: there’s a lot of research on technology related blogging but not a scholarly published research on an academic conference live blogging). Guess that’s going to be part of my research findings, right?
If you were monitoring my lifeform on a global view it would seem that I hardly move a bit 🙂
My only trip outside of Michigan (can’t count trips to Cedar Point) in many years was one long weekend trip to Kentucky about three years ago.
Before that – 17 years ago I went to Chicago twice for work.
Before that – 21 years ago I actually lived in Florida for nine months.
I am quite sure that I was in Canada once as a child with my family – but never as an adult.
I’ve looked at Canada a time or two from over the river in Detroit.
I can understand how easy it is to live your life in one small space!
But I do know how to mail a letter to Canada 😉