Mail-o-mat

• The slip in our mailbox said a package awaited me in the doar-mat outside the nearby post office. I'd wondered what that large, red kiosk was. It operates 24 hours a day.
• A press on a touch screen, a wave of the slip so the machine could read the barcode, a few seconds’ wait (not quite long enough to make me go ask for help), and the door slid open to reveal the package bringing me clip-on sunglasses.
• That was easy.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox