If you drive north up Warren Avenue/Greely Highway, you'll drive through the center of Cheyenne. As you pass 22nd Avenue, there's a great big, huge, easily visible and legible sign that says Post OFfice This Way.
There's only one problem. There isn't a post office on that road and there hasn't been one on that road for 3 years.
Yet the sign is still there, directing newbies to the city to turn there, in full authority of an official sign.
I've lived in Cheyenne for about a month, and got tricked by that sign a couple of weeks ago. I'd had my mail forwarded to my new address, but after one day's receipt of mail, nothing for two weeks. So I tried to find the post office to ask what was going on. Now - if I'd never seen any signs directing me to the post office, I would have looked up the address on the web. But in my driving down this particular road, which I do every day, I'd always seen that sign, and I think I was justified in thinking, "No need to look up the address. I'll just follow this sign."
(As for the mail problem, the woman from whom I bought this house decided to go to Mexico for a vacation. She still hasn't found a new home (I won't go into the issues of that - but it's nice to know she can afford to go to Mexico for two weeks, before she finds a new home to live in) so she put a hold on the mail. All of it. Those with her name on it as well as mine.
So I got that sorted out.
But it just makes me shake my head.
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