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Originally Posted by jawillie  In Harmonic Wealth he talks about being optimistic. I like that word instead of "being positive."
I have been told I focus too much on the negative in the past, yet my life always works out because deeeeeeep, deeep down I am an optimist. *I* know it, but those who hear me complain don't believe it.  My life has always been "okay" because I honestly EXPECT it to be okay. |
I find a lot of the examples given about LoA to be too easily contradicted, and typically it seems to me like we simply don't know enough about this "law," but I'm going to give an example here that was very noticeable to me.
I've been selling on eBay and to another customer base for nearly six years, and have mailed out perhaps 6,000 packages/large envelopes in that time, using the U.S. postal service. I have virtually no problems, even though the vast majority of my mailings are done through the cheapest methods -- media mail and bound printed material. These two methods
can be very slow. In around 6,000 packages, maybe five or six have gone missing, and one of those went overseas, and one went to Louisiana soon after the hurricane. So I don't add extra services like delivery confirmation unless there's a certain dollar amount where I have decided it's worth it to add insurance.
Recently I had an e-mail discussion with another seller who adds delivery confirmation to everything and hates using media mail because she says the post office is always losing those packages. She says she has two out there right now that have disappeared, even with the delivery confirmation. She also hates going to the post office. She says everyone is crabby and snobbish. I told her I love going to the post office, that everyone is friendly and it makes a nice break in my work routine, since a lot of the time I'm working at home by myself on the computer.
Then she sent a very long e-mail about how parcel post service is awful and media mail service is awful and how they lose packages, and how they even throw them away if they are "undeliverable," and how delivery confirmation is vital, and how she uses some other on-line postal service as well which adds a tracking bar code which then she has to explain to her customers is not USPS tracking, and so on, and by this time I was starting to get really befuddled, and all I kept thinking was, geez, I just take my boxes down to the post office and *poof*, a few days later they magically arrive where they're supposed to go.
She and I are using the exact same federal mail delivery service, yet we have completely different experiences.