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“Every Saturday morning I arrive at 7.30am, and enter the post office box lobby. Behind the narrow corridor of identical red letterboxes, there is a locked room, full of ancient Christmas decorations. A malevolent wooden Santa with pale blue eyes stares unblinkingly up at the ceiling, like the figurehead of a great ship, or a drowned Pagan god. Someone has been here before me, and left a sack of mail. I perch on the edge of a busted office chair and sort the mail into numerical order, redirecting the redirections, and returning the charity fundraising envelopes scribbled over with the legend GONE NO ADDRESS. In the winter, the post office box lobby is cold, and I can see my breath as I sort the TV guides from the electric bills. But it’s a peaceful time of day, and I find the work interesting, glancing over tropical bird stamps from faraway countries, archeology magazines and religious chain letters. My work is rarely disturbed. Only once have I deposited a letter, to see a disembodied hand reaching in from the other side.”
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