Posted: December 17, 2020 877
Dec. 19 is the final day for Edmonds Saturday Holiday Market. (File photo by Larry Vogel)
When my mother-in-law mentioned suspected shipping delays when asking for present ideas for the kids sometime around Thanksgiving, I hadn’t heard anything about it. With 99% of our family out of state, we still have a couple of shipping nail-biters though, thankfully, Santa was able to get the most important requests curbside or shipped in time. As far as the post office, it was busy when I went midday Wednesday. I don’t usually have to go to the post office for holiday shipping so I can’t speak to how busy they normally are, but I drove by the first post office I was going to try and the line was so long it was out the door by at least seven people. The second one had a total line of about 10 people when I got there and the backup at the self-serve kiosk grew during the time I was there. This is all to say that the local present-buying options st