I am not ashamed to admit how little I know about the business I am starting, but my ignorance of some things even surprises me. I learned this week that, though my address is in the downtown center of a busy county seat, the U.S. Postal Service will not to deliver mail to me. It turns out that several blocks of downtown Pittsboro have been excluded from mail delivery for many years. We used to have a post office one block from the main street, but some time ago the post office moved a mile away, leaving downtown businesses no way to get mail other than by driving out of town to collect from a post office box. Not only that, but mail correctly addressed to me is being returned to sender, including my first power and water bills.
So, of course I had to rent a P.O. box this week, adding to my list of unexpected expenses. And changing my business address on many new accounts is added to my list of unexpected time wasters. I am not going to rant about the post office, or how (with all the paperwork I’ve completed for local officials) someone might have saved me a lot of trouble if they had mentioned this bizarre condition, but I could.
