Mail System!

First, huge shout out to the Google Android System, Picassa Albums, and Blogger, which are all so seamlessly integrated it took me about 45 seconds to take these pictures on my phone and upload them here. It's beautiful, wonderful, and promises many more pictures on our blog. 

Here is our new post office in our home! We were having a challenge keeping track of our mail. When we came in, it inevitably ended up on our kitchen counter to be sorted, which turned into piles around the home, which of course ended up being general chaos when it came to paying the rare paper bill or fulfilling our pledge commitments - and of course the credit card offers rarely get shreded.

Enter - system! We (Jess and I) found this at Office Depot. I think it's meant to sit on a desk, however it was light enough we figured we can hang it on the wall. So now as soon as we come in the home, we can sort our mail to see what we need to see immediate, what is for us specifically, and what can wait awhile.

Tonight we finally labeled each shelf to be clear what we are putting on there. The top level is for "Actions" - the mail we actually have to do something about, like the bills to be paid. The next two shelves are for Jon and I personally, primarily for our business communications. Next we have "Philanthropy" as we find there are alot of charitable organizations we receive mail from and want to read. Following is the shelf for "Other" - primarily for the credit card offers we need to shred, and for various other things that can wait a few days until we get to them. And, finally, in typical librarian style the final shelf is reserved for all things "Oversized" - like magazines - so we can still sort them here, however they won't block visibility.

Thanks for reading!
(random note: almost every time I typed "mail" in this blog, I automatically spelled "email" and had to re-do the word. Funny.)